Mike Meyers “The Love Guru” Trailer Looks Familiar
It has taken Myers four years to do his first live-action movie since 2003’s terrible train wreck of a movie “The Cat in the Hat” and a decade to create an original comic character (his last being 1997’s “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”). This is why this summer’s “The Love Guru? with Meyers is already creating buzz.
Meyer’s finally returns with “The Love Guru”, which hits screens June 20. The film, which also stars Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake and Ben Kingsley, features Myers as Pitka, an American left as a child at the gates of an ashram in India. Pitka becomes a self-help guru who tries to smooth the marital rift of a hockey star and his wife.
Myers, a native of Ontario, told USA Today that he wrote the film because of his interests in Eastern philosophy and hockey. Why did it take so long for Meyers to create another character? He told USA Today that he is very protective of his original live-action characters. He was quoted as saying:
“I’ve written and created everything I’ve done and it takes me a year to reflect on what I’ve done, a year to let the idea incubate and a year to create” a new character.”
Although I love Mike Meyers films (”So I married AN Axe Murderer”, “Wayne’s World” and “Austin Powers”) and his technique mentioned above, this trailer below borders on familiar and tired. I really want to like this film and I am sure I will see it when it comes out this summer, but I am worried.
The addition of bad actress and box office poison Jessica Alba doesn’t give me any confidence that this movie will be in the same league as Mike Meyers past blockbuster films. I just hope that the “Wayne’s World” shtick and “Austin” powers gags don’t create a bomb at the box office and ruin his creative record with comedic characters.
WATCH “THE LOVE GURU” MOVIE TRAILER BELOW:
MEYERS AND ALBA IN “THE LOVE GURU”
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
I totally understand what you mean by saying you want to like this movie. I want to like it too, but the trailer put me on the fence. Sometimes the trailer sucks and the movie is okay. However, the characters did seem familiar. I guess I’ll have to watch it to make my final opinion.
Good review!