DVD Review: The Love Guru

Is The Love Guru as bad as most critics made it out to be? No, not really.

Is The Love Guru almost completely unwatchable? No, not really. Some parts of it are actually quite enjoyable.

Is The Love Guru often weighed down by Mike Myers propensity to wink at the audience as a way of underlining every punchline his character delivers? Yep. And that’s the main problem with the movie.

In the hands of an actor less inclined to unabashadly mug everytime something funny happens, thereby draining all the actual humor out of the situation, The Love Guru would be about 95 percent better than it is. As it stands it’s got some genuinely funny bits, but Myers is simply too enamored of himself and so brings every scene to a screeching halt so he can make a face. It’s the biggest problem with the Austin Powers movies, it was the biggest problem with Wayne’s World and it’s the biggest problem with The Love Guru.

The DVD is nicely tricked out with extras, though. If you just can’t get enough there are Bloopers, Deleted and Extended Scenes and some Featurettes to bring you even deeper into the film. The DVD is also packaged with a second disc containing a digital copy you can download for free from iTunes simply by inserting the disc into your computer and following the directions.