Amusing, but not really funny. The problem is Meyers goes to the well one time too many

Rating: 5/10 (5 July 2008)

Mike Meyers makes an amusing (to some degree) but not really funny comedy that is far from the worst film of the year.
The plot has Meyers as Guru Picka who is second to Deepak Chopra. In a bid to be come number one (and get a shot at Oprah) he must get a hockey player back with his wife and his team to win the Stanley Cup.
Most of this movie doesn't have any laughs. Its not for trying, oh how they try, the problem is that most if not all of the humor is a retread of many other Mike Meyers films. There are songs (clever for a few seconds each), breaking the fourth wall, guest stars and other things which for the most part you've seen it all (especially when Meyers references himself). Its amusing and its clever at times but most of the jokes fall flat. It doesn't help that more than a good many of them consist of jokes involving bodily function, sex or the lowest common denominator, all of which are fine, so long as the punchline isn't painfully obvious which they are here (like most of the puns which we've seen before).
This isn't to say there are no laughs, Stephen Colbert is wickedly funny as a hockey announcer and much of the abuse Verne Troyer humor produce a chuckle or two at the very least. There are also a couple of genuine attempts at humor in the final moments that work, but mostly this is a misfire of a comedy.
Is it the worst film of the year? No. Frankly I think this will revive on cable and DVD when people realize that its not as bad as people have made it out to be. (Its certainly better than its lousy reputation). Actually I think once it hits cable where people don't have to pay for it will be the point it takes off. I was amused and I stayed to the end which says volumes especially at a post 10pm showing.
Just over 5 out of 10.
A word of warning- this should have been rated R. The jokes really push hard in the R-rated direction with elephants probably really making this too much for little ones.