The Love Guru

While the year’s best films will be honored tonight with Oscars, Mike Myers’ abomination of a movie, The Love Guru, has taken the top prize at another awards ceremony: The Razzies

Let's get the painful worst out of the way first so we can end this year on the high note of what was great.

Worst
1. Hounddog
A terribly written, amateurishly directed, horrendously acted, self-important parable about lost innocence rife with Adam and Eve symbolism; the film’s major claim to fame is the rape of 12-year-old Dakota Fanning. To call it offensively bad is to be kind. 

Who wants to see the Mini-Me sex tape?

If you dare...click here.

There is nothing to love about The Love Guru.

Even the supremely stoned or irremediably immature will be hard pressed to find the laughs in Mike Myers’ new film about America’s #2 spiritual leader on a desperate quest to land a seat on Oprah’s couch so he can dethrone the reigning king of karma, Deepak Chopra.

GS: Why did you decide to take the role of Jacques Grande?

Myers plays the Guru Pitka, the second most popular spiritual advisor in the world, trumped only by arch-rival, Deepak Chopra, in his new film The Love Guru.

The idea has long gestated in Myers’ brain.

“I grew up in Toronto,” he explains, “As long as I can remember there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV Channel 47 at 2am.”

An insomniac since the age of 11, Myers found hours of late-night entertainment and boundless inspiration.

Mike Myers and Mariska Hargitay laugh it up on the red carpet at the premiere of Mike’s new film The Love Guru.

Mariska only has a very brief cameo in the film but her name is spoken throughout. Her name is used as the Love Guru’s salutation and blessing, like Namaste or Shalom or Aloha…Mariska Hargitay.

Baby Daddy Justin Timberlake arrives on the red carpet of The Love Guru at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood last night.

Sigh. Swoon. Giggle.

Even in pleather, he stays foxy.

We recently had the unbelievable good fortune to be able to interview him about The Love Guru (more on that later today). When asked about his new acting career, he said this had always been a goal; it just got sent to the back burner for a few years: