As we’ve already noted, not only does every blog with an ounce of acumen want Mike Myers to fail miserably, but so does all of Tinseltown. And the love fest for all things Myers is continuing with the reviews for the “The Love Guru” which are merciless in their contempt for the film and its star.
The Hollywood Reporter writes of the film,”[The] unfunny juvenilia that makes one appreciate the subtlety and nuances of Judd Apatow’s films,” while Variety agrees in their early look claiming the film is “so relentlessly juvenile as to merit a new twist on the PG-13 rating — one that strongly cautions not only those under 13 but anyone much above it, too.”
The Village Voice writes in their excoriation, “Now and again some pungent writing leaks through to poke fun at the excruciating banality of guru wisdom. But mostly it’s dreary dick jokes and elephant poop, slack directing by Marco Schnabel, and, of all fatal errors, Mike Myers, shooting for cuddly.”
While it only has a few reviews tallied so far, over at Rotten Tomatoes, “The Love Guru” sits at an amazing 0.0% rating. Ooof.
As for “Get Smart,” the comedy remake starring Steve Carrell and Bland Hathaway, HR notes that the two films are going head-to-head this weekend at the box office. The move they say is “anything but smart on the studios’ part. But the real question is which [film] is the worst?”
The lesser of two unfunny evils appears to be the Don Adams spy satire homage which apparently branches out enough to not be a total retread. Or maybe it’s just meh? “The formulaic takeoff is neither fish nor fowl, but it’s nothing you want to take off your shoe and call home about,” Variety writes in their review. The Hollywood Reporter calls it a “slap-dash effort whose producers threw money and stunts onscreen instead of the satirical gags and one-liners that made the old spy spoof so memorable.”
The Voice’s J. Hoberman actually kind of like it (“a pleasant surprise,” he wrote as editors took his temperature) and Meta-Critic and Rotten Tomatoes are in the middling 50% range (neither love nor hate overall). Easily amused and low critical faculty movie bloggers seem to like it too.
Meanwhile, Canadians so stupefyingly enthralled with the nods to Canada (“look that jokes for us!,” they said with dumbfounded puppy love), couldn’t seem to see past anything other than Myers loving references to the Great White North. Congratfuckinulations.
