When the Toronto Maple Leafs’ star hockey player Darren Roanoke loses his girlfriend to the French Canadian Goalie on the opposing team, their owner, Jane Bullard seeks out The Love Guru to see if he can get Roanoke and his girlfriend back together so her team can finally win the Stanley Cup, which they haven’t won in 40 years.
This is with a doubt, one of the funniest, tightest comedies of the summer. It is clear that Mike Myers and Graham Gordy put a lot of time into the script to make sure the jokes and timing were just right.
Many critics have been giving this movie a hard time, and it isn’t clear to me why, because this is very much in the same line of comedy as the Wayne’s World and Austin Powers movies. In fact, I would say it’s even better, in terms of its comedic timing, and overall originality. The film is filled to the brim with jokes – the film is almost literally exploding with humor, and if you’re Canadian, it’s even funnier. Great cast, too. Particularly enjoyable are Guru Pitka’s repartees with Ben Kingsley as the guru Tugginmypudha, and Verne Troyer (you know, that little guy from the Austin Powers movies), as Leafs Coach Punch Cherkov.
Anyway, my hat’s off to you Mike, for this excellent comedy. I laughed my ass off. My one criticism is that it was too short. (That’s what she said!) But then again, it’s not the length of your movie that matters, it’s the noises you get your audience to make with it.
Oh, and to all you no-talent hacks out there who couldn’t make it as filmmakers, so now you crap all over comedians deserving of actual careers, a message:
Stop
Undermining
Comedy
Kings!
Be
Aloof!
Laugh!
Lastly,
Shut-up!
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