Rotten Watch: 'The Love Guru' & 'Get Smart'

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Ebert said:
Even his fellow actors seem to realize no one is laughing. That’s impossible, because they can’t hear the audience, but it looks uncannily like they can, and don’t.
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And don't what?
 
Absinthe said:
Jessica Alba is a fucking death knell when it comes to movies. Just look at this:

Good Luck Chuck
The Eye
BOTH of the Fantastic Four movies
The Love Guru
Honey
:lol :lol :lol
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You forgot "Into The Blue".

The Fantastic Four films didn't do that bad even though theyw eren't good.
 
master15 said:
I love Steve Coogan but this fucking god damn trend of people falling over, flying into the walls or getting knocked out by some flying object in EVERY SINGLE TRAILER has to fucking stop.
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It won't. Gotta bring in the stupid people too. It's sad how watching comedy trailers kind of forces you to look for signals that it's for you. It's very subtle and sub-text-y, like trying to figure out if a girl likes you or something.

Also a big Coogan fan, by the way. People on the fence should check out the Alan Partridge segments from The Day Today.
 
I was interested because it mixes Steve Carell and a show I really enjoyed... but really, I'd probably go see Get Smart just for Anne Hathaway.

As for the Love Guru, every ad I see seems to play it as Mike Myers' personal love letter to the Toronto Maple Leafs. Not surprising it stinks ;)
 
I saw the clip of Get Smart on The Daily Show and it's so sad.... so, so sad.

Here's a chance for Steve Carrel to prove that he doesn't always have to do the same shtick, and he still does the same shtick.

Poor, poor Don Adams. I'm sorry.
 
Saw Get Smart. I don't think some of you guys are gonna like it, but personally I laughed my fucking ass off.

Steve Carell fucking nailed this role.
 
I saw Get Smart as well. I think it took a bit too long to get to the action, but other than that I really liked it. Be warned, though, 75% of all of the jokes in the movie have already been shown on the commercials/trailers.
 
I also thought Get Smart was great. It wasn't huge laugh out loud funny (sans two parts) but I was consistently laughing throughout it.
 
Xevren said:
I thought Get Smart was freaking hilarious. Lumping it with that garbage Love Guru is dumb.
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Yeah, I saw Get Smart today. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long while. Consistently humorous.
 
Yaweee said:
Yeah, I saw Get Smart today. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a long while. Consistently humorous.
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There are a hundred and twenty black op snipers outside right now.
I don't believe you.
Would you believe a dozen delta force ops?
...
Would you believe Chuck Norris with a BB gun?
:lol
 
Get Smart was pretty damn enjoyable and the audience I was with dug it as well. I also very much appreciated the absolute lack of improvisation like so many other recent big comedies.

I could have seriously gone without the
vomit
gag though.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
I saw the clip of Get Smart on The Daily Show and it's so sad.... so, so sad.

Here's a chance for Steve Carrel to prove that he doesn't always have to do the same shtick, and he still does the same shtick.

Poor, poor Don Adams. I'm sorry.
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I saw the same clip. and I thought the same thing. Steve Carrel has NO fucking range. That said he is funny, he can make me laugh. Which is more then I can say of Mike Myers in The Love Guru. Zohan was also fucking terrible. There's NOT something wrong with me, right? These movies are getting fucking worse, right?
 
I was dragged to see The Love Guru today. :(

It was just as terrible as I expected.

In the past two weeks, I've been subjected to seeing The Happening and The Love Guru. :(

I'm seeing Get Smart tomorrow though. :)
 
I loved Get Smart. Steve Carrell impressed me more in this movie than any other I've seen him in. He absolutely nailed the slapstick, capable-but-clumsy nature of Maxwell Smart. As a fan of the show, I was very impressed.
 
Saw Get Smart today and enjoyed it. The pacing and editing was definitely a little awkward in the first half of the movie, and a few of the scenes did not look completely finished, but overall I really enjoyed its charm...and random objects hitting people on the screen without warning. :p

Favourite part:

Max: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Chief: If you're thinking "Holy shit. Holy shit. A swordfish almost went through my head," then...yes.
 
On last night's The Daily Show:

Elmo: "Gitmo says see The Love Guru or I'll electrocute your balls!"
Me: "Like there's a difference??

The audience actually fucking laughed at the clip. Proof Stephen Colbert is the intellectual comedian.
 
vas_a_morir said:
I'd love to get a group together to go to a bad movie, and sarcastically laugh like it's the greatest shit ever for the 2 people there to actually enjoy it.
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My buddy and I have long joked about doing the exact opposite. Going to some movie that's like universally loved (Say, the Dark Knight) and then getting up 5 minutes into it going, "WHAT THE FUCK? I thought this was Love Guru! Sonofabitch!"
 
lockii said:
I saw the same clip. and I thought the same thing. Steve Carrel has NO fucking range. That said he is funny, he can make me laugh. Which is more then I can say of Mike Myers in The Love Guru. Zohan was also fucking terrible. There's NOT something wrong with me, right? These movies are getting fucking worse, right?
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Yes, the bar is lowering for comedies in general. There is really no fresh ideas being pushed about. I think the last comedy I laughed at was Superbad and before that the 40 Year Old Virgin. Even those types of comedies are getting worse and overdone.
 
LazerShark said:
On last night's The Daily Show:

Elmo: "Gitmo says see The Love Guru or I'll electrocute your balls!"
Me: "Like there's a difference??

The audience actually fucking laughed at the clip. Proof Stephen Colbert is the intellectual comedian.
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Colbert's audience laughs at dumb stuff too.

Oh, and...

Stephen Colbert is in The Love Guru.

So uh, think about that.
 
Get Smart - OK. 3/5 stars. Its one of those comedies that feels like it's taking itself too seriously at times. The evil plot is altogether too pedestrian and adds no humor to the movie in and of itself, for example. It's also not Hathaway's best movie in terms of her sex appeal IMO. She's almost Goth the way they darkened her hair and laid on the eye makeup. It's weird.

A few good gags, but pretty uneven. Gets by mostly on the strength of the cast.
 
Dan said:
Colbert's audience laughs at dumb stuff too.

Oh, and...

Stephen Colbert is in The Love Guru.

So uh, think about that.
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Apparently though, Colbert is the only good part of the Love Guru. I read a couple of reviews, all of them saying the movies sucks, but Colbert rocks.
The only actor who really scores is news talk show/comic Stephen Colbert, who plays a drug-addled, sex-addicted hockey broadcaster. He is absolutely hysterical.
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Hollywood Reporter
 
Shitty weekend, really. Instead of either of these two flops, I finally got the chance to see Sex and the City. Really, really excellent.

OpinionatedCyborg said:
Wayne's World 2 > Wayne's World 1
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Both are really excellent, but I'd put 1 just slightly ahead of 2. Again, both are equally hilarious, IMO.
 
Thomper said:
Apparently though, Colbert is the only good part of the Love Guru. I read a couple of reviews, all of them saying the movies sucks, but Colbert rocks.

Hollywood Reporter
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He does what he can with what has quickly become the most cliched character in all of comedy: the wacky newscaster. Actually, it's one of the worst wacky newscasters I've ever seen, but that's just because of the writing.
 
saw get smart last night, it was a real enjoyable movie, the laughs were pretty consistent throughout the flick, anne hathaway was super hot

would recommend it to anyone really
 
http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/hindus furious about love guru after screening_1072065

Movie executives at Paramount Pictures have honoured their promise to preview MIKE MYERS' new film THE LOVE GURU for concerned Hindu leaders in Los Angeles.

Hindus, led by Rajan Zed, campaigned to see the film before its release on Friday (20Jun08) - in a bid to make sure their fears about the movie were overblown.

But the screening has only served to bolster the religious opposition to the film, which Zed and his followers insist is disrespectful to Hindus and their beliefs.

Zed has now urged Hindus around the world to boycott the movie, claiming the picture "lampoons Hinduism and Hindu concepts and uses Hindu terms frivolously".

After attending the screening on Thursday (19Jun08), Zed rages, "The Love Guru is even more denigrating than we earlier perceived from the information gathered from trailers, websites and other sources.

"Mike Myers' guru instigates a bar fight, repeatedly narrates penis jokes, mocks yoga - one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, wears female jewellery, mocks the concept of third eye, makes disciples drink tea passed through his nose, orders alligator soup, induces elephant copulation in front of the crowd, introduces himself as 'His Holiness', lives in a lavish ashram staffed with scantily clad maids, and whose goal in life seems to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show."

And the Hindu leader has suggested other religious groups should give the film, in which Myers plays an oddball guru called Pitka, a miss.

He adds, "Today it is Hinduism, tomorrow Hollywood might attempt to denigrate another religions.

"Hinduism is often misunderstood and wrongly portrayed outside India. Movies like this bring more confusion and create stereotypes in the minds of audience."
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"Mike Myers' guru instigates a bar fight, repeatedly narrates penis jokes, mocks yoga - one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, wears female jewellery, mocks the concept of third eye, makes disciples drink tea passed through his nose, orders alligator soup, induces elephant copulation in front of the crowd, introduces himself as 'His Holiness', lives in a lavish ashram staffed with scantily clad maids, and whose goal in life seems to appear on the Oprah Winfrey show."
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This paragraph somehow makes the film sound a lot funnier than it is :lol

Especially their apparent outrage over:

orders alligator soup
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Will Alba eventually make her way from just mega hottie to real movie acting like Jennifer Connelly? I doubt it. JC showed commitment by willing to go nude.
 
Saw Get Smart last night and it was pretty good, mostly because of Carrell. I went into the movie with moderate expectations and it met those moderate expectations, so I was happy.
 
ViperVisor said:
Will Alba eventually make her way from just mega hottie to real movie acting like Jennifer Connelly? I doubt it. JC showed commitment by willing to go nude.
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Connelly can also, you know, act.
 
Little is as sweet as seeing Get Smart destroy Love Guru at the Box Office. Get Smart is looking to come in on the high end of expectations, and Love Guru much lower.

The result? Mildly restored faith, temporarily, in the American moviegoing public.
 
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