The Love Guru is a 2008 American romantic comedy film directed by Marco Schnabel in his directorial debut, written and produced by Mike Myers, and starring Myers, Jessica Alba, Justin Timberlake, Romany Malco, Meagan Good, Verne Troyer, John Oliver, Omid Djalili, and Ben Kingsley.

The film follows Pitka (Mike Myers), a guru who is tasked with revitalizing the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team.

The team's star player, Darren Roanoke, has been playing badly ever since his wife Prudence left him for Los Angeles Kings goaltender Jacques "Lè Coq" Grandé.

Jane is a big fan of Pitka's and offers to pay him $2 million to patch up Darren's marriage so that the team can win the Stanley Cup.

Darren begins to play well but then gets suspended for the next two games after beating up Lè Coq and hitting Coach Cherkov with a hockey puck.

With time running out, Pitka distracts Lè Coq with his idol, Celine Dion, and then tells Prudence that Darren stood up to his mom, encouraging her to return to her husband.

At the airport on his way to guest on Oprah, Pitka sees the news on television and defies his agent by going back to help Darren.

[12][13] A fan of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Myers described the film's plot as wish fulfillment, saying, "I figure the only way that my team will win a Cup is if I write it.

[6][18] John Oliver made his feature film debut in The Love Guru and was cast due to Myers enjoying The Daily Show.

Dialogue for her character is included in a bonus feature of deleted scenes contained on the film's home media release.

A "Fan Resource Page" at Fox Entertainment's beliefnet.com website[23] was "created as part of a collaboration between Beliefnet and Paramount Pictures.

The website's critical consensus reads, "The Love Guru features far too many gross-out gags, and too few earned laughs, ranking as one of Mike Myers' poorest outings.

Stone said "Chopra is used almost as a product placement, taking a proud spot alongside a circus, a brand of cinnamon buns, the Leafs and, of course, Mike Myers."

Stone also wrote, "the sitar based versions of pop songs like '9 to 5' are oddly watchable – but mostly the film is 88 minutes of ridiculous sight gags and obscene puns.

"[30] A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote "The word 'unfunny' surely applies to Mr. Myers's obnoxious attempts to find mirth in physical and cultural differences but does not quite capture the strenuous unpleasantness of his performance.

Every reference to a human sex organ or process of defecation is not automatically funny simply because it is naughty, but Myers seems to labor under that delusion.

[33] Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle was one of the few major critics who did not write the film off completely, stating "Mike Myers' new comedy, "The Love Guru," is a disappointment, but it's not a disaster, and that's at least something.

Some expressed unhappiness about how Hindus are portrayed in the film, believing The Love Guru was disrespectful and risked giving Hinduism a bad reputation among viewers not familiar with the faith.

Based on Zed's interpretation of the movie's trailer and MySpace page, he said The Love Guru "appears to be lampooning Hinduism and Hindus" and risked reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

[37] Professor Diane Winston, an expert on media and religion, said the film was seemingly more a critique of American attitudes towards "quick spiritual fixes" rather than a sustained satire of Hinduism.