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are some impressive celebrity cameos including Jessica Simpson, Val Kilmer, Deepak himself and even Oprah. There is also a very funny scene where the object of Pitka's greeting "Mariska Hargitay" makes an appearance.

Mike Myers co-wrote this screenplay with fairly new writer Graham Gordy, and unlike a lot of Saturday Night alum films, "The Love Guru" for all its silliness does not feel like it's moving from sketch to sketch as it's moving from scene to scene. There is a plot, nay a theme, and one especially impressive set up and pay off for the climatic scene at the final game for the Stanley Cup.

That "The Love Guru" is the first directorial outing for Marco Schnabel is even more impressive. Even though the movie felt familiar, it still felt fresh - something I attribute to the filmmakers, some of them fresh to the movie making process themselves.

Unlike the third Austin Powers installment which felt phoned in, this movie demonstrated a little more heart and soul - more intimacy (or "Into Me I See" - "TM"). And unbelievably, under all the gags, there's a message. No, really.

"The Love Guru" will not win any Oscars and Deepak Chopra can rest easy that there is no way a Guru Pitka could dethrone him as enlightened Guru to the masses. I rate it way below Wayne and the second Austin Powers movie, but pegs way above "Austin Powers: Goldmember".

For those Mike Myers fans still willing to check your brain at the door - "The Love Guru" awaits you.

Mariska Hargitay.

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