The Love Guru

Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and ...more

Mike Myers does not create mere comedic caricatures, he develops nuanced characters alive with detail. Wayne Campbell had his idiosyncratic aghast facial expression, Austin Powers his lascivious sneer and host of quotable Austin-isms, and Guru Pitka, the bearded hero of The Love Guru, has Mariska Hargitay. The Law and Order actress’ melodic moniker is employed as a salutation among the self-help master’s followers, and it is only one of several eccentricities that Myers conceived of when he was ...more

Mike Myers is willing to do anything to make an audience laugh. Dick jokes, poop jokes, tortured puns, outlandish accents, and stylized make-up, have been in his repertoire since he first became a household name on Saturday Night Live. Since the stereotype goes that comics are by nature needy -- constantly desiring an audience's laughter and approval to fill some emotional void in their lives -- many comedians willing to be this ridiculous come off as pitifully desperate. Myers will forever ...more