Strange...

Rating: Null/10 (27 October 2009)

I always make it a point to watch the movie that was voted as "Worst movie of the year" for the Razzie awards, and that's why I watched "The Love Guru" despite the horrendous reviews. While I don't think the movie is as bad as some people have portrayed it, I will admit that it isn't very good.
Where did it go wrong? Well, I think the first way is the way the central protagonist is portrayed. I read a review that stated that Meyers, when it came to Austin Powers, made that character likable despite stuff like his sex obsession - unlike the central character here. I have to agree. I won't say that the guru is hateful, but he comes across as a very weird individual with an unbelievable obsession for certain things that don't seem to be tempered by anything positive. At times you want him to be given a slap in the face to shake him out of his giggily mood and make him do something sensible.
Meyers in real life should have also been given a slap at the screenplay stage. It seems no one tried to stop his frequent infantile attempts at humor. Don't get me wrong, there are some attempts at humor that do succeed (the Bollywood parody being the movie's best gag), but other than isolated moments like those, the screenplay bombards the viewers with penis jokes and other "naughty" gags that seem to come from a 10 year old boy.
Combining that character and the infantile humor level, the end results are so strange that the movie almost makes it worth seeing to see such a unique kind of cinematic disaster. Note I said "almost".