Guru Pitka is an American who was raised in India and trained to be a guru under Guru Tugginmapudda (yup, there’s a lot of that). He comes to America with the dream of becoming the number 1 guru, where he finds himself number 2 behind Deepak Chopra. Bizarrely my MS Word spell checked has Deepak Chopra in it. To gain the number 1 position he needs to get on Oprah and an opportunity to do just that arrives when the Toronto Maple Leafs star player has love trouble that wreaks his game. Can Guru Pitka cure his love troubles and get that spot on Oprah, while also achieving self love so he can remove his chastity belt and presumably bone Jessica Alba?
Well obviously. We’re not talking rocket science here it’s a comedy full of boner jokes.
Remember when Mike Meyers was funny? Like really funny? Wayne’s World and the first Austin Powers funny? Well this isn’t a return to that. BUT it isn’t horrendously bad either. It doesn’t quite suffer from the “okay we get it, stop the joke now. Oh it’s going on for another 3 minutes? Yeah its not funny anymore” that I personally think plagued the later Powers movies and modern day SNL from what I’ve seen. Once or twice, but most of the time the movies just vaguely entertaining.
There’s a few moments that did make me laugh, but it is just a few. The Love Guru isn’t a terribly character but he’s far from a classic that I’d want to see over a number of movies. It was good to see some Daily Show alumni, namely John Oliver who’s occasionally funny and Stephen Colbert who is (eventually) fantastic. I actually think the biggest waste in this movie is that Colbert’s drugged out commentator wasn’t used a bit more. It’s not an original idea, having sports commentators say wildly inappropriate things, but he got to a very good place with it.
And the hockey ain’t bad neither, though there’s various errors with that. Looked good though so who cares.
So maybe a shitty day outside, it’s on TV and the remote is juuuuuuuust out of arms reach view. Nothing special, but not terrible. Ironically it references the Bohemian Rhapsody moment from Wayne’s World which just highlights how much Meyers must have lost it as that movie was quotable as hell and this….isn’t.
Next up: Surrogates
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