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WHEN COMEDIES COMPETE Friday, June 20 2008 
It
was
bad
enough
when
Warner
Bros.
and
Paramount
discovered
that
the
jam-packed
summer
release
schedule
left
them
no
alternative
but
to
open
two
comedies
against
one
another
this
weekend.
Now,
to
compound
the
problem,
they
have
discovered
that
buzz
and
reviews
about
both
comedies,
Get
Smart
and
The
Love
Guru
have
been
dreadful.
(The
best
thing
going
for
The
Love
Guru
may
have
been
the
free
publicity
generated
by
attacks
directed
against
it
by
(more)SOME CRITICS GIVE LOVE GURU SHORT SHRIFT Thursday, June 19 2008 
Mike
Myers's
The
Love
Guru,
which
is
being
released
on
Friday,
is
receiving
so
many
blistering
early
reviews
that
Los
Angeles
Times
writer
Tom
O'Neil,
who
tracks
films
up
for
major
awards
in
his
column
"Gold
Derby,"
is
predicting
that
the
film
may
be
a
shoo-in
for
the
Razzie
for
worst
film
of
the
year.
For
example,
Moira
Macdonald
in
the
Seattle
Times
calls
it
"preadolescent
humor
with
a
few
sitars
thrown
in."
But
Kirk
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Bad karma has descended on The Love Guru in the form of a display of single stars, F grades, and downturned thumbs from critics. "This film could have been written on toilet walls by callow adolescents," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times. A.O. Scott in the New York Times recalls star Mike Myers's earlier successes, then remarks that he "sees to have lost his touch." Joe Neumaier, writing in the New York Daily News, condemns the movie as "an atrocious, idiotic 88 minutes of anti-entertainment." And Kyle Smith in the New York Post concludes his review by remarking,, "Comparing the comedy in this film and that of Get Smart, the weekend's other big release, is like asking whether Hamas or Hezbollah puts on a nicer Easter parade." 
