Since his role in this failed comedy, the leading man has slipped off the radar. Some decisions can sometimes cause harm, but luckily Celine Dion avoided disaster…
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Oprah Winfrey and Celine Dion were both asked to star in the film dear guru, to be seen (or not) on Paramount+! Neither of them ultimately took part in it, although they appear in it only indirectly. The film follows Pitka, a young American woman who was abandoned in India at the gates of a spiritual center. As an adult, he returned to the United States to share his knowledge and spirituality. His first patient is Darren Roanoke, a hockey star whose wife Prudence has started a relationship with Jacques Grande, his lifelong adversary. Therefore, the owners of the team hire Pitka to try to restore harmony within the couple. The cast of this film directed by Marco Schnabel stars Mike Myers, iconic for his role as Austin Powers on the big screen, alongside Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.
Love Guru: anything but unanimous
Upon its release in 2008, the film received critical acclaim. On IMDb, the American review site, Love Guru gets a mediocre rating of 3.8/10. This trend does not exist in France either. “Produced with mittens, artistically sloppy (…) Myers vampires the film, which has no other interest than what we show the actor,” writes Christophe Narbonne in Première. Le Monde, on the other hand, produces a “frightening” result. The film was a complete flop at the box office, grossing $40 million on a budget of $62 million.
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Love Guru: Worst Movie, Worst Actor, and Worst Screenplay
In 2009, this film received the Razzie Awards for the worst film. Mike Myers, who co-wrote the film and made his mark as a permanent member of the Saturday Night Live crew from 1989 to 1995, was in turn crowned with the Worst Actor award. His passage in the film was suicidal too, as apart from a small role in Inglourious Basterds and a return in the fourth part of Shrek, for which he is dubbing, we haven’t seen him on screen since.
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