First Hit: A comedy that is rarely funny and very haphazard in execution – one of the worst Myers films ever.
In interviews Mike Myers comes across as intelligent and thoughtful. Therefore, how he comes up with a film like this is beyond me.
Here he plays Guru Pitka, the Love Guru and in second place in the Guru standings behind Deepak Chopra (how can a Guru be in second place?). Guru Pitka wants to be the number one Guru but just doesn’t have enough of a following to be on Oprah’s show which he believes will put him over the top.
Jessica Alba, who plays a hockey executive, needs to find something to help her star player (Romany Malco) who is down in dumps and cannot play hockey any longer because his girlfriend has left him for Jacques “Le Coq” Grande, played by Justin Timberlake.
Jacques happens to be a hockey player as well and it just so happens they are going to be the opposing teams in the Stanley Cup Finals. Because Alba admires Guru Pitka’s teachings, she hires him to cure the star hockey player’s love life with former girlfriend. She believes with this change he will play great hockey, she’ll be the toast of town, and she is willing to pay Guru Pitka 2 million dollars if it works.
Pitka’s agent says that if this happens, Oprah will book him on her show. Between the beginning and end of this film we are bombarded with nearly 1,000 bad junior and high school level jokes, all poorly executed along with an obvious ending to the film.
Marco Schnabel either didn’t have the chops or authority to make a decent film out the talent available. Although Jessica Alba is watchable, the best thing in the film was the over the top performance by Justin Timberlake.
Overall: Definitely not something that I could recommend seeing for any reason.