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."

Myers was on "Shootout" on AMC and man was he kind of weird and boring.

Looked like a bad interview from where I sat.

I'm amusing myself by reading bad reviews of "The Love Guru."

It's hard to imagine who the comedian thought the target audience might be for a slapsticky self-help/ice-hockey/ elephant-poo comedy.

I have read so many bad reviews of it that I now REALLY want to see it.

I wish I were kidding.

On the other hand, the reviews of GET SMART are making me REALLY want to see the movie, which is a huge surprise, much as I like Steve Carrell.

It's a rare film that makes a reviewer consider giving up the movies altogether. My own Waterloo came forty-five minutes into "The Love Guru" when I briefly considered stabbing out my own eyes so that I wouldn't have to watch it any more.

"The Love Guru" is just a half a step up from a loop of monkeys throwing feces at each other. This isn't a case of just turning your brain off and regressing to a childhood sense of humor. You could have a full frontal lobotomy and "The Love Guru" would still never be funny. It's just vile, vile, vile. I usually try to stay even handed about films and freely admit that all opinions are subjective, but if you like this movie you are categorically wrong and should be sterilized for the good of the human race.

I usually try to stay even handed about films and freely admit that all opinions are subjective, but if you like this movie you are categorically wrong and should be sterilized for the good of the human race

Wow. What's the source on that one?