The Love Guru [Blu-ray]

Director: Marco Schnabel Marco Schnabel

Overview

Austin Powers trilogy star Mike Myers collaborates with writer Graham Gordy for this comedy concerning a self-help guru named Pitka (Myers) who devotes his life to unknotting the romantic entanglements of troubled couples. As a young child, Pitka is abandoned at the gates of an ashram in India and taken in by kindly gurus. An American by birth, Pitka absorbs the lessons taught to him by his teachers and later returns to the United States to become a leading authority on spirituality and self-help. While Pitka's methods are decidedly unorthodox, they may be the only means of ensuring that the Toronto Maple Leafs win the coveted Stanley Cup. Maple Leafs star Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) is in trouble. His estranged wife has recently begun dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) in a vengeful effort to send her husband's career into a tailspin, and when Roanoke starts to falter on the ice, the whole team starts to suffer. As their visions of leading the Maple Leafs to the Stanley Cup are quickly going up in flames, team owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer) enlist the aid of the world's best-known relationship expert in restoring the peace between Roanoke and his wife, and getting their team back on track to the championships.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/24/2017
UPC:	0032429286147
Original Release:	2008
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	PARAMOUNT
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:26:00
Sales rank:	23,843

Special Features

Mike Myers and The Love Guru - An Inside Look HD ; One Hellava Elephant Hockey Training for Actors HD; Deleted and Extended Scenes HD; Bloopers HD; Back in the Booth With Trent and Jay HD; Outtakes HD; Theatrical Trailer HD

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mike Myers	Guru Pitka\Himself
Jessica Alba	Jane Bullard
Justin Timberlake	Jacques Grande
Romany Malco	Darren Roanoke
Verne Troyer	Coach Punch Cherkov
Meagan Good	Prudence Roanoke
Manu Narayan	Rajneesh
John Oliver	Dick Pants
Stephen Colbert	Jay Kell
Jim Gaffigan	Trent Lueders
Ben Kingsley	Guru Tugginmypuddah
Omid Djalili	Guru Satchabigknoba
Telma Hopkins	Lillian Roanoke
Deepak Chopra	Himself,Deepak Early 20s
Rob Blake	Himself,Himself
Kanye West	Himself
Mariska Hargitay	Herself
Daniel Tosh	Cowboy Hat
Ron Huebel	Frat Guy
Rob Grfroerer	Sickly Nerd
Linda Kash	Female Reporter
Bob Bainborough	Assitant Coach
Suresh John	Indian Man
Trevor Heins	Young Pitka
Jaan Padda	Young Deepak
Sean Cullen	Referee
Mike Nahrgang	Angry Fan
Matt Baram	EMT
Boyd Banks	EMT
Samantha Bee	Cinnabon Cashier
Garry Robbins	Biker
Peter Schoelier	Uncle Jack
Ben Gans	Goal Post Judge
Taylor Flood	11-Year-Old Girl
Alexia Filippeos	11-Year-Old Girl
Shakti Kupil	Sanjay
Graham Gordy	DJ
Michelle Marshall	Oprah Winfrey Voice Double
Rob Gfroerer	Sickly Nerd
Rob Cohen	Nerd
Autam Chopra Aka	Deepkak Early 20's
Jahlani Bishop	Children's Church Choir
Zoia Davis	Children's Church Choir
Donna Ellis	Children's Church Choir
Jazmine Jeffrey	Children's Church Choir
Danielle Johnson	Children's Church Choir
Carlisa Lewis	Children's Church Choir
Elyssa Marshall	Children's Church Choir
Jamila Mason	Children's Church Choir
Nathaniel Robinson	Children's Church Choir
Helen Semmunigus	Children's Church Choir
Daniel Skeete	Children's Church Choir
Tierra McRae-Spence	Children's Church Choir
Kadesha Webb	Children's Church Choir
Clarice Gillard	Children's Church Choir
Raemiah Dorrington	Children's Church Choir
Knikole Frans	Children's Church Choir
Zachary Jones-Hurst	Children's Church Choir
Tyra Jones-Hurst	Children's Church Choir
Adisa Liburd	Children's Church Choir
Sabrina Morris	Children's Church Choir
Nadine Muir	Children's Church Choir
Larissa Abrams-Ogg	Children's Church Choir
Tracey Soman	Children's Church Choir
Alpha Kayondo	Children's Church Choir
Ashton Williams	Children's Church Choir
Madhumita Sen	Group Dancer
Uppekha Jain	Group Dancer
Dani Jazzar	Group Dancer
Karun Pathak	Group Dancer
Sachin Bhatt	Group Dancer
Prosenjit Kundu	Group Dancer
Robert Halley	Group Dancer
Sharat Chawla	Group Dancer
Namita Kapoor	Group Dancer
Hetal Patel	Group Dancer
Nazneen Irani	Group Dancer
Shereen Ladha	Group Dancer
Sharona D'Ornellas	Group Dancer
George S. Clinton	Composer
Steve Kempster	Composer

Technical Credits

Mike Myers

Graham Gordy

Marco Schnabel	Director
Mike Myers	Screenwriter,Producer
Graham Gordy	Screenwriter,Producer
Kathleen Chopin	Casting
Mark Ellis	Stunts
John Coats	Special Effects
David D. Johnson	Special Effects
Rob Sanderson	Special Effects
Christal Christensen	Producer
Liz Crawford	Producer
Eric Christensen	Executive Producer
Michael DeLuca	Producer
Roger Birnbaum	Executive Producer
Rene Tougeron	Executive Producer
Donald Lee Jr.	Executive Producer
Gary Barber	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

Mike Myers is willing to do anything to make an audience laugh. Dick jokes, poop jokes, tortured puns, outlandish accents, and stylized make-up, have been in his repertoire since he first became a household name on Saturday Night Live. Since the stereotype goes that comics are by nature needy -- constantly desiring an audience's laughter and approval to fill some emotional void in their lives -- many comedians willing to be this ridiculous come off as pitifully desperate. Myers will forever remain a more interesting figure than many of his peers because, while he's willing to do anything at all for a laugh, he always seems to be able to commit to the jokes so fully that one senses he thinks they are funny. As the Guru Pitka, the world's second most popular self-help advisor, Myers dons a ridiculous thatch of facial hair, an Indian accent that wavers from scene to scene, and a chastity belt. Forever desiring an Oprah appearance so that he may become the next Deepak Chopra, Pitka gets hired by the owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs (a competent Jessica Alba) to help the team's star player (an under-utilized Romany Malco) get back together with his wife after their separation sapped him of his hockey skills. The film weaves together a loving parody of self-help lingo and logic (easily the strongest material in the film) with a stream of juvenile humor so consistent that it makes the Austin Powers movies seem like the work of Noël Coward. You will either respond to a grand finale that hinges on elephants having sex on the ice during the Stanley Cup finals or you won't, and the odds of you laughing might hinge mostly on your response to Myers during his entire career. As an actor and writer, Myers seems incapable of doing a joke that he doesn't think is funny, which makes sitting through an unfunny patch with him more tolerable than it might otherwise be. One of the central lessons learned in The Love Guru is that other people may say bad things about you, but you must never say bad things about yourself. The statement applies to the film as a whole because others might not find it nearly as funny or as profound as Myers does, but the fact is that he "means" every frame of this film -- all the positive messages as well as the midget defribulation -- and that sincerity makes the film somewhat interesting even though it falls short of successful.