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

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 ...

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