Quartile rating: 4/10 · 1 rating
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.
The Love Guru is widely regarded as one of the worst comedies of its era. The plot is thin and largely an excuse for crude, repetitive jokes built around Mike Myers' caricatured persona. Acting is broadly unfunny even from capable performers like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Alba. Cinematography is functional at best, indistinguishable from any mid-budget studio comedy of the period. Novelty gets a marginal bump for its unusual India-meets-NHL-hockey setting, but the execution is so formulaic and the humor so recycled from Myers' own Austin Powers playbook that it offers little genuine freshness. The ending is perfunctory and unearned, wrapping up conflicts with no dramatic or comedic payoff.