Painfully boring watered-down "Austin Powers"

Rating: 2/10 (11 June 2011)

Some comedians can build up an entire career by doing the same thing over and over again, but Mike Myers sure seems keen on proving that he isn't one of them. In my opinion his schtick already started getting kinda old about halfway through the second "Austin Powers"-movie, maybe "The Love Guru" never really had a fighting chance to begin with. Guru Pitka may be a new character (actually even that's negotiable), but don't let that fool you: this is basically just a fourth "Austin Powers"-movie. The jokes all seem like rejected material from previous efforts, and the obligatory sexual innuendo is somehow even more tiresome than the one in "Goldmember". To compensate for the fact that none of the jokes work, Myers had a rock-solid solution though: just have Jessica Alba's character crack up at everything. Seriously, I can't even remember any of her lines, just constant unconvincing laughter at absolutely nothing. The most painful role is for Ben Kingsley though, this movie makes you long for the days when he played bit parts in Uwe Boll movies. Even Jim Gaffigan is unfunny in this movie, how is that even done? This thing flopped for good reason. Now where did I put my "Wayne's World"-DVD?