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I admit I went into this film having heard many horrible things about it. I read movie websites frequently and when headlines like "Worst comedy of all time?" come up it is hard not to click on them. The thing is that I actually found the trailers to be very amusing. Timberlake looked funny, Alba screaming looked funny and I even chuckled as Myers sitting on the miniature fork and arching an eyebrow. I was convinced I would be the one person who would enjoy what this film had to offer. I was, however, wrong. Oh, how I was wrong.

The plot revolves around a Love Guru (played by Myers) who was childhood friends with Deepak Chopra. When both of them came to America,Chopra found success and our Love Guru has been jealous ever since. He gets his one chance at fame when the owner of the Maple Leafs hockey team (played by Alba) tries to get her star player back with his wife, who has left him for Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) who is renowned for the type of attrbutes they sell pills to enhance on late night television.

The plot should already tell you this movie has little hope but it is all about the jokes along the way, right? Well, those do not live up to their end of the bargain, either. I remember back when Myers did the great, highly creative "penis" joke in Austin Powers. If you have not seen that movie, please do so instead of seeing this one. I note that joke because this wholemovie seems obsessed in recreating it but is too juvenile to do so successfully. Then there are the animal sex jokes. The fecal matter jokes. The jokes about passing extreme gas.

If they had hinted that this humor would make up the bulk of the movie in the trailers I would not have seen it in the first place. Talkabout clever marketing... that trailer contains the only funny elements in the movie. There was one gross joke I liked, involving a "thump" heard offscreen. Other than that it was ninety minutes of torture and paying that price you expect a lot more than a few smiles and maybe one chuckle.

I think the producers of this film operated under the delusion that just because something is naughty it is automatically funny. Obviously the vast majority of the world is not juvenile enough to agree with them on this issue. This brand of humor only works when someone is just learning about the things being mentioned and finds them funny in themselves. Once you get beyond that point you see this movie for what it is: a lame excuse for a nine dollar movie that plays as if its material was stolen from an elementary school restroom's wall.

One star out of four.

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