Comments on: Sayin’ I Love You: Get Guru

By: sittingpugs

sittingpugs — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:44:27 +0000

Critics sometimes forget that when it comes to movies, to be on the fence or relatively amused can be better than feeling one has just been enlightened.

As a profession, though, there’s an expectation or an obligation to be critical and to evaluate a film based not only on an emotional response (any slew of adjectives with exclamation points at the end), but also on an intellectual one.

Perhaps some critics don’t feel comfortable when the two contradict each other. Or when one is lacking.

By: tmatta

tmatta — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:28:39 +0000

I saw “Get Smart” and my wife and I along with the entire theater roared most of the time. It managed to take the best of the original series and add other updating to make a truly enjoyable slapstick and pun satire of the Bond movies just like the TV series. I’m not so sure why the critics were so negative. I really didn’t want to go, but my wife convinced me. I don’t mind dropping hard earned cash for laughs that have me falling out of my theater chair, howling and crying.
I don’t expect to go to Love Guru. just not a Michael Myers fan.

By: sittingpugs

sittingpugs — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:49:21 +0000

Hey Tommy, many thanks for leaving your footprints.

To be totally honest, I believe that The Love Guru is and is not a hockey movie. It’s a tangential or indirect hockey movie. The film is as much about Darren Roanoke as it is about Guru Pitka. Since I watched it for the hockey, i was thinking about it more through that lens.

On the other hand, because I was also reviewing it for FilmThreat.com, I had to widen that lens. I didn’t have to try that hard, though.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 20:52:51 +0000

I really enjoyed your critique of the Love Guru. The movie does run the risk of alienating non hockey fans because it does kinda run the course of being a hockey movie, but as you wrote, it is NOT a hockey movie, but a very clever comedy that uses uses hockey, or more specifically, the wooes of the storied franchise, the Toronto Maples Leafs, as a subplot. The realy story is the comedy of the “Love Guru”, and his wish to be the next One.. no not Wayne Gretzky, but the next Deepak Chopra. This movie is going to be a cult hit like Waynes World and Austin Powers. Mark my words, there will be a Love Guru 2…

By: sittingpugs

sittingpugs — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:34:50 +0000

Thanks for commenting. I liked it for what it was; then again, I watched it for the hockey.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 03:32:47 +0000

I really enjoyed Love Guru and thought it was hilarious. It’s nice to see a review that doesn’t completely dislike the movie. It’s like those other reviewers didn’t even see the same flick that I did!