"The Love Guru" didn't bomb because of Justin Timberlake. It didn't bomb because Mike Myers waited too long after the last installment of "Austin Powers" to become one with the cultural zeitgeist. It didn't bomb because Hindu fundamentalists raised a stink over the film's usage of sacred terms.
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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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...
Tags Austin-Powers, deepak chopra, mike myers, the love guru