Just look at The Love Guru, an uneven and hysterically bizarre comedy about an ambitious, potty-mouthed mystic who helps a Canadian hockey star get his wife and his groove back. Directed by newcomer Marco Schnabel (from a screenplay by Myers and Graham Gordy, with inspiration from Deepak Chopra), the film reminded me of lesser Peter Sellers vehicles (The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu) in which a genius for meticulous comic masquerade crashes on a weakness for overstatement. The obvious can be amusing once or twice, but by the fourth or eighth go, it's time to bring on the draconian edits. Source

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