It's that time of year again. The time of year when CVS is overrun with teddy bears clutching little red hearts, every brand of candy suddenly is decorated in red and all your favorite romantic films are suddenly checked out from your local video store (or Netflix, who are we kidding?). That's right, it's Valentine's Day -- and we couldn't be more thrilled.
Because to us, as much as Valentine's Day is about spending time with the one you love (or just America capitalizing on another commercial holiday; take your pick depending upon your level of cynicism), to us it's about spending some quality time with the characters we love. We aren't called MTV Movies Blog for nothing.
But this year, instead of picking our favorite couples from film or the top romantic moments that have happened on screen, we decided to go a different route: we're looking at the characters from some of our favorite movies that, if they ever met, would be a match made in heaven. Don't lie: in your gut, you know sparks would fly if Boss Nass from "The Phantom Menace" met Ursula from "The Little Mermaid," don't you? Okay, maybe not, but we would absolutely bet on the five couples we picked after the jump having some serious chemistry -- if they ever actually met!
Perhaps my choice of hitting the caps lock key when I did gave away my thoughts on this matter? The truth is I like Austin Powers. I laughed like everyone else when the first one came out and yes I may have quoted the film once or twice (but not since 1999, I swear). But I laughed a little less during "The Spy Who Shagged Me" and by the time of "Goldmember" I felt, I think like most of you, that this series had run its course.
We all remember the star-packed cameos from "Austin Powers in Goldmember," the third installment in the spy spoof series that featured everybody from Tom Cruise to Steven Spielberg, Danny DeVito to Britney Spears. Now, with "The Love Guru" just two months away, could Mike Myers once again have stars in his eyes?
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Why Did 'The Love Guru' Bomb? We Ask The Guru Himself, Deepak Chopra
Posted 8/4/08 12:41 pm EST by Jennifer Vineyard in Commentary
It bombed, says Deepak Chopra, because Myers got too mired in gross-out jokes.
"'The Love Guru' didn't work well because Mike Myers addresses a teenage audience, and he was trying to mix it up with metaphysics," Chopra told MTV News. "Humor mixed with spirituality can work, if it's done well. But frankly speaking, this was not a good attempt."
Chopra, who counts Myers as a friend, knew well in advance that the comedian was planning to poke him at him with his character of Guru Maurice Pitka. Read More...
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