NOT GROOVY, BABY "… Mike Myers has started writing Austin Powers 4 which will be an homage to his father. 'It's very personal with a father and son theme loosely based on his own life,' an insider tells me. As Myers has previously said, this fourth installment of the super spy spoof movie series will focus on Austin's arch-villain Dr. Evil, who was based on Blofeld of the Bond films. But what hasn't been known is that the AP4 plot is really about Dr. Evil and his son (introduced already as Scott Evil, played by Seth Green)."
As of today, The Love Guru has a 15 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer. Of the few reviews that didn't pan the film, one used the term "elephant sex" and another admitted that it was "juvenile," "strained" and "baggy."
We haven't seen it because we're pretentious, bitter haters who never got into Austin Powers the way other people did. But what about you? Anyone willing to fess up to watching The Love Guru? If so, did you like it?
'ENDLESS PENIS JOKES' "A leading Catholic group has come to the aid of America's Hindus who are boycotting Mike Myers' new film The Love Guru - because religious officials have found the film to be 'morally offensive.' The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has slapped the comedy with its highest classification. … Officials at the USCCB's Office for Film and Broadcasting in New York, who are responsible for reviewing and rating theatrical motion pictures, called the film 'vulgar and tasteless', adding it 'wallows in endless penis jokes and fairly yucky potty humor.'"
THE LOVE PAIN IN THE ASS "Mike Myers … made an appearance on NBC's 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien' Wednesday to promote 'The Love Guru,' … but he drove backstage staffers bonkers while he waited to go on. 'He sent a team of interns on a wild goose chase for Silk nondairy creamer, Twizzlers and raspberry seltzer … Then he sent one of the interns back out to get him a new drink when he realized his seltzer was not the brand he requested.'"
This one's out of left field: The Love Guru, Mike Myers' most culturally insensitive project yet – one scene features the guru scratching himself like a dog while practicing this crazy thing called yoga – is bad. And not just fancy critics like AO Scott are saying as much. Even kiddie paper USA Today has few kind words for the film:
The Love Guru (* * out of four) is enraptured by bathroom humor that doesn't even reach sophomoric standards. It's more on the level of preschool.
This send-up of feel-good, inspirational wisdom with a decidedly Indian flavor might have made a clever Saturday Night Live sketch. But as a movie, it's a silly spoof that is occasionally funny but grows tedious with excessive mugging and bad punning.
And now we know why Justin Timberlake was so crabby while doing press for this flick.
Trailer after the jump. Betcha can't sit through the whole thing.
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We knew it was only a matter of time, but it felt like an absolute eternity between MTV’s Movie Awards on Sunday and this morning, when we finally found a viable clip of the Wayne’s World reunion.
Last evening, everyone from Samuel L Jackson to Dane Cook (yeesh) turned out for the annual MTV Movie Awards, that glorious time of year when the network transforms itself from being simply a constant commercial for bad pop culture into a vastly more obvious constant commercial for bad pop culture.
Highlights of the evening included very high-minded comedy like a fat guy chasing Sarah Silverman (brilliant!) to Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen kissing (I mean, men kissing—can you believe it?).
The most inexplicable photo grouping of the night must be Chris Tucker, Victoria Beckham and Bruce Willis, whose mere proximity to one another must have led to a completely unnecessary picture. I guess it's up to you to name the star, the has-been and the never-was.
PS Megan Fox, the awe-inducing beauty from Transformers, will be the new "it" girl. I'm calling "it."
There's a lot more pictures after this jump.
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• Factory pants look different than regular pants. [Egotastic]
• I'm going to try to ignore this bit of information and still crush on Alicia Keys. [INO]
• Nic Cage. Just look. [DListed]
• Mike Myers' version of Borat, and you can only see it in New York. Sorry, Tennessee. [CityRag]
• I'm not surprised she's still complaining. But I am surprised Tyra types "y'all" when addressing fans. [HT]
• Harry Potter getting pretty close to exposing his wand. [IDLYITW]
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• Federline turned down 25 mill that would have forced him out of his kid's lives for good. Dude turned it down. Are you ready to admit that he's a decent guy? Or do you think he's just holding out for more? [TMZ]
• A pretty frightening, educated estimation that civilization's got only a 50 percent chance of reaching 2100. [NYT]
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