Mike Myer’s Love Guru Slammed By Critics
Mike Myer’s Love Guru – which hits theaters today – is getting slammed by critics.
“What is the opposite of a belly laugh?” New York Times reviewer A.O. Scott wrote. “[It] is downright antifunny, an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again.”
Scott said “unfunny” and “obnoxious” do “not quite capture the strenuous unpleasantness” of Myer’s portrayal of the main character Guru Pitka.
“To say that the movie is not funny is merely to affirm the obvious,” Scott added.
The New York Post’s critic quipped, “If this movie were a president, it would be Tedious Roosevelt.”
Variety called the film “relentlessly juvenile” and the Associated Press reviewer blamed Myers: “From the credits of this scattershot comedy sketch stretched and strained to movie length, Myers clearly loved himself to the point of narcissism going in.”
