This is not another theme week mind you. It’s just that after pouring over the D&D core books for a week and getting stuff lined up for the pod cast, a holiday weekend of kicking back with movies was what happened. We’ve just discussed Hancock but this isn’t necessarily tied to the Love Guru, although “Hancock” is a pun joke Mike Myers would’ve used … if he didn’t and I was just over deluged in junior high school dick jokes.

This is a common complaint of reviewers, but I call them hypocrite-bastards. I just so happened to have seen the first Austin Powers again recently and concluded that Love Guru is in no way a lowering of comedic standard nor foray into crassness beyond the international man of mystery. For those that hated this classic’s humor, I will reduce the title of hypocritical-bastard to merely uptight asshole with the severity of this pronouncement equal to the hardness of those diamonds formed from many theatre chair cushions within their singularity like sphincters. May they collapse into themselves to form fetal universes where Woody “she’s not my daughter by blood” Allen movies are the platinum standard of comedy.

That said Love Guru isn’t especially as good as the first Austin Powers. Mainly this is Mike Myers moved to a new fictional context of cold war spy movie to the current appeal of eastern mysticism amongst celebrities. There‘s a scene where as a Deepak Chopra wannabe Guru Pikta Myers bids the blessing “marishkahargitay“ to several celebrities as themselves – Jessica Simpson and Val Kilmer (bonus points for randomness). The phrase sounds familiar, but I can’t place it. A third celebrity is the exotic milf from Law and Order SVU, Marishka Hargitay, leading into a Law and Order bit. Kind of clever, but if you recognized the name you saw it coming and if you didn’t you may not get it. Good news: this is the most complicated joke in the movie.

Pikta slings around a ton of joke acronyms the way profound yogis do with pun panache: intimacy = “In-to-me-I-see”, Basic instructions before leaving Earth = Bible and “Eat’ in ain’t Cheat’ in” amongst them. He uses illusionist-like Indian magic to escape situations and rides an elephant, all the while winking at the camera and heavy handedly spewing sexual double and triple entendres in a quasi-Hindu accent. Given that my mother is into this New Age esoteric importing, thanks impart to The High Gynarch Winfrey, I found the subject matter particularly funny.

Romney Malco as the Tiger Woods of the NHL and subject of Pikta’s assistance is decent but not really funny. Myers sets it so that the main sources of humor are himself and constants cracks about portable pocket co-star Verne Troyer. Megan Good and Alba are just eye candy set pieces, but Timberlake is sort of funny as the horse-cocked antagonist new boyfriend of Malco’s ex-wife Megan whom is a walking Celine-Dion-loving French Canadian in-joke amongst Canadians. Not realizing that we see them all that way. Colbert as a commentator could’ve been used a bit more.

If you hate puns and potty humor, DON’T SEE THIS MOVIE! Save your money by staying home to watch Annie Hall for the thousandth time.

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