This is how you do a chaming, fun love story with Bollywood feel. From 2002, it stars Jimi Mistry, Heather Graham, and Marissa Tomei.

Its too bad Meyers has devolved into nothing more than camera mugging, crotch humor, and overreliance on midgets. I loved Austin Powers as an homge to that era, but I didn't like the sequels. I tried to watch the second one (also with Heather Graham) a few days ago, and I had to turn it off after a while for the 'volume eleven' bodily function humor, which to me is both tiresome and a cheap out for a smart guy like Meyers.

Why on EARTH was Mike Myers ever allowed to get in front of a camera ever again after his rape-murder-cannibalization of Dr. Seuss in The Cat In The Hat, perhaps the worst movie ever made - and certainly the most grotesque desecration of all time of a precious children's classic?

This terminally unfunny "comedian" should have been exiled for life to a REAL spiritual retreat...preferably somewhere in the remote Himalayas, where he will never trouble popular culture again.

Okay, he did a few mildly funny things now and again. But some crimes are unforgivable. And on the scale of Art (or even the more-forgiving scale of Comedy) Mike Myers has been a massive negative for far too long.

He simply isn't funny.

Okay, he did a few mildly funny things now and again. But some crimes are unforgivable.

Really? You don't think his turn as his own crazy Scottish da in "So I Married an Axe Murderer" sort of preemptively redeems all the crap that's come since? I thought that was hilarious.

Ah go crrry yerself tae sleep on yaer HUUUUGE pellow!

that would be funny

If there was no such thing as toilet humor Austin Powers and Mike Myers himself would never exist in comedy. Very, very occasionally he was funny on SNL. As soon as I saw the ads for 'Love Guru' the first thing I thought was 'gee...I wonder how long after the opening credits will we hear the first poop joke?' And Justin Timberlake is now in movies? And his character is called 'Le Coq'? Yeah, that's about as intelligent as a ten year old doing armpit farts in the living room. Looks like another must avoid...truly from the toilet that we call today's 'popular culture'. Where's Frank Zappa when you need him?

The Ullman bit is about 10 times funnier than Myers' mugging.

Oh but they (almost) did...

http://www.filmbuffonline.com/ReadingRoom/dieterReview.htm

And from what I've heard its hysterical, my friend scored a copy of the script. Its like Meyers had a reverse epiphany (or a head injury) and decided to take the lowest road possible.

Its like Meyers had a reverse epiphany (or a head injury) and decided to take the lowest road possible instead of doing smart stuff like Sprockets.

they should make a movie out of Sprockets -- John Anderson

Now is the time on Salon when we dance!

now he's terrible.

Sad to say, nearly every good comedian jumps the shark. The only trick is knowing when to bail out when you've still got it.

Mike Myers, he ain't got it.

He was hysterical on SNL, and the first Wayne's World had a lot of good stuff, too. None of the Austin Powers movies are funny. But there seems to be a tendency when a comic loses his spark to decide he was never really all that funny in the first play. The subtext of most comments is "I, for one, was never a fan." Which is odd, since box office and home rentals suggest some people are being disingenuous.

Myers was very funny. He may still be funny now. The problem might be that he's a sketch artist at heart, not a movie-maker. If, say, he'd released a movie with three segments—an Austin Powers segment, a Wayne's World bit, maybe something like the Love Guru—it might be really funny. Especially if someone has the power not to laugh at unfunny jokes and tell him when to stop, the joke is dead. But he doesn't think well when it comes to extended plots, and he tends to pad things our with dumb, repetitious jokes. The toilet humor that goes on and on and isn't funny to begin with.

"...titles like 'If You're Happy and You Know It, Think Again' and 'I Know You Are, But What Am I' ...Deepak Chopra...on "Oprah" [Oprah Chopra?]...and...Guru Tugginmypuddha"...plus Alba, Kingsley, Timberlake?

So far, so funny. The movie must be TERRIBLE, though, if those mirth-makers (at least I laughed) couldn't carry the film.

Oh well. Who thought Steve Martin would ever sink to doing "Pink Panther"? Did he really think he could top Peter Sellers?

Sometimes it's not good for a man to exceed his grasp. Maybe Mike Myers morphed into Mike Myers, "Halloween" hockey-mask joke-killer.

Gossip columns for years have reported Myers' inflated ego and poor treatment of underlings. I just got done reading about another instance in the New York Post's "Page Six" column (which also links to the paper's one-star review of his new movie):

To wit:

"MIKE Myers wants his demands met. The comic made an appearance on NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" Wednesday to promote "The Love Guru," but he drove backstage staffers bonkers while he waited to go on. "He sent a team of interns on a wild goose chase for Silk nondairy creamer, Twizzlers and raspberry seltzer," said our witness. "Then he sent one of the interns back out to get him a new drink when he realized his seltzer was not the brand he requested."

It appears Myers truly deserves all the bad reviews he's gonna get with this one.

Rent "The Guru" instead. So enjoyable, I can't believe it didn't get more attention -- especially the scene with the full Bollywood treatment of that hit song from Grease.

Mike Myers was really good, before -- CoffeeTalk, Wayne's World, the first Austin Powers. He's just lost it. "The Love Guru"is just offensive.