Paris Hilton in 'The Hottie and the Nottie'Is it just me, or was 2008 one of the worst years for movies ever?

Well folks, the time has finally come to vent. It’s one of my favorite days of the year, as my Razzie ballot just arrived in the mail. As a registered voter, I take my obligation very seriously, and it’s always interesting to see what the annual awards for bad filmmaking have nominated for the worst of the worst.

Here’s your chance to help me vote! Below are the newly-released nominations for the 29th Annual Razzie awards. Please post your picks in each category in the comments section below, and whichever clunkers get the most votes will make my ballot: Read More...

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Mike Myers in 'The Love Guru'"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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Justin Timberlake and Mike Myers in 'The Love Guru'The last time Mike Myers starred in a comic film creation all his own, the entirely forgettable "Austin Powers in Goldmember," the flick opened to a stellar $73 million weekend at the box office. That was six years ago and as we just learned over the weekend, a lot can change in that kind of time.

"The Love Guru" opened on Friday to the kind of reviews usually reserved for movies starring Larry the Cable Guy, not to mention an embarrassing 4th-place finish. Perhaps no one sunk the knife deeper than A.O. Scott in "The New York Times" who called it, "an experience that makes you wonder if you will ever laugh again." Wonder if Myers turned and mugged for the camera after he read that one.

So this begs a few questions, the key one being...what the hell happened? Did Mike Myers suddenly become unfunny? Did our collective taste change? Is his new comic creation a little too familar (I'm going with this one)? Or is Justin Timberlake to blame? Read More...

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Mike Myers in 'The Love Guru'It's a blockbuster brawl this weekend as two of the biggest names in laughdom take each other on at the box office...so which of the big-budget comedies will snag your hard-earned dollars?

In one corner you have Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway reviving the classic "Get Smart" franchise, and in the other you have the five-year-in-the-making, live-action return of Mike Myers in "The Love Guru."

Will Myers' first new homegrown non-cartoon character since Austin Powers as the enlightened Guru Pitka draw you in, or are you more apt to check out the explosive shenanigans of Carell and Hathaway going undercover with their whiz-bang gadgetry? We want to know which you plan on seeing, and what you think of the flicks after you do, so be sure to chime in below with all your thoughts. Yuk it up, folks!

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Well, this film's street cred just shot way up with me. Sure, you know you're going to get all the Mike Myers and Verne Troyer goodness you can imagine this weekend when "The Love Guru" opens but Stephen Colbert?!? Now you're talking. Check out our exclusive clip below.

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