• Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 06/20/2008
  • Running Time: 88 mins
  • Director: Marco Schnabel
  • Cast: Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Omid Djalili, Ben Kingsley
  • Producer: Mike Myers, Michael De Luca
  • Writer: Mike Myers, Graham Gordy
  • Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 29.3 million, 29.3 million
  3. Eagle Eye, 17.7 million, 54.6 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, 11.3 million, 11.3 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Nights in Rodanthe, 7.4 million, 25.1 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Appaloosa, 5.1 million, 5.6 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Lakeview Terrace, 4.6 million, 32.2 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Burn After Reading, 4.1 million, 51.7 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Fireproof, 4.0 million, 12.4 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. An American Carol, 3.7 million, 3.7 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Religulous, 3.4 million, 3.4 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

The Love Guru

Mike Myers likes ice hockey. He also likes Deepak Chopra—a little bit too much. So he pulled together a bit of hockey and a whole lot of Chopra and called it a plot. Building a movie around the efforts of an also-ran celebrity guru to sort out the internal politics of the Toronto Maple Leafs was Myers’s first mistake. His second was to seek Chopra’s blessing and throw him a cameo, thus fluffing a golden opportunity to take a good, strong whack at the guru industry. Kitted out in an orange shirt, Dalí mustache, brown-cow eyes brimming with lechery and faux sympathy, and a fluid libido, Myers’s Guru Pitka—a shaman cursed with lagging behind Chopra on the pop-psych charts—is too like his source to be really funny or really cutting. Indeed, he’s a bit of a dear, and completely upstaged by the charm of a bunch of mega-stars ready and waiting to spoof themselves. Team manager Jessica Alba romps adorably through a goofy Bollywood dance sequence. Goalie Justin Timberlake gives his all to a sing-off with a Céline Dion impersonator. And Ben Kingsley, as a cross-eyed Zen master, hasn’t been this funny since he swanned around in that outsized diaper in Gandhi. The rest is disposable. Now and again, some pungent writing (the script is by Myers with Graham Gordy) leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it’s dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel (a second-unit director on the last Austin Powers movie), and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers shooting for cuddly. — Ella Taylor

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