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Article: My goodness gracious me, this is pants ; Mike Myers is having a mojo meltdown, if his latest outing is anything to go by. It's not so much a case of 'Behave' as 'Beware', says Noel McAdam
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- August 1, 2008
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The Love Guru
(12, 87 mins)
Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Ben Kingsley
Mike Myers remains marooned in a morass of masturbation and
manhood jokes.
Oh aye, and movement. Bowel movement, mostly. Take away those
three not entirely unconnected themes and Mr Myers is all but lost.
He would still have that cute, self-knowing look he gives the
camera and, of course, short-people puns.
Yes Love Guru finds the Mand M taking the traditional route, and
you wonder whether the journey was strictly necessary. Some of his
quips are truly barrel-scraping.
For example: his key adversary (Timberlake in-joke though it is)
is called Le Coq, has a car with licence plates reading Big Coq and
a ...