I was going to say, didn't Meyers already commit career suicide with The Cat in the Hat?

I was going to say, didn't Meyers already commit career suicide with The Cat in the Hat?

That was noted in the review, saying it's taken him five years to come back with the Love Guru and it's insanely, offensively bad.

He's basically down to doing Shrek's voice.

Oh why didn't he do a Sprockets movie when he had the chacne?

This is the opening para of the Slate review of The Love Guru. Instant classic:

There are good movies. There are bad movies. There are movies so bad they're good (though, strangely, not the reverse). And once in a while there is a movie so bad that it takes you to a place beyond good and evil and abandons you there, shivering and alone. Watching The Love Guru (Paramount Pictures) is a spiritual experience of a sort, but not the sort that its creator and star, Mike Myers, intended. This tale of a guru who brings joy to all who meet him is the most joy-draining 88 minutes I've ever spent outside a hospital waiting room. In the course of those long minutes, Myers leads you on a journey deep inside himself, to the source from whence his comedy springs—and it's about as much fun as a tour of someone's large intestine.

Not since Catwoman or Cat in the Hat have I seen such a round of poison pen reviews!

We've got a real stinker here.

It looks so execrable and painfullyantifunnybadwrong, just from the trailers.

I think I like both Vern Troyer and Stephen Colbert less for being in it.

Ben Kingsley is in it! WTF?

In all fairness actors often commit to movies based on concept, without reading the script. Except the concept does not sound all the promising either...

Ben Kingsley is in it! WTF?

I'd say I like him less too, but he's one of those very fine actors who is also an unabashed whore for roles, so his willingness to appear in this is unsurprising.

The review in the examiner this morning was even more damning, suggesting Mike Meyers careeracide.

The interviews he's been doing seem strained and painful

I heard him on Fresh Air the other day, and the only part that I really caught was him lamenting how he came of age just *after* the whole sexual revolution thing, and how his older brothers were all like "Yeah, all this free love is AWESOME....too bad you're just a kid!"

Oh, and Teri Gross played the fathers-and-sons group therapy scene from the first Austin Powers movie, with Seth Green accusing Dr. Evil of trying to kill him, and Dr. Evil recounting his childhood:

"The details of my life are quite inconsequential...very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds...pretty standard, really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum...it's breathtaking. I highly suggest you try it."

one of those very fine actors who is also an unabashed whore for roles

LIke Christopher Lee saying, roughly, "I'm an actor, people pay me to act."