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What’s opening Friday, June 20?
This weekend marks the great comedy battle: Steve Carell versus Mike Meyers. I’ve seen Get Smart but not The Love Guru. Get Smart isn’t great, but based on the rancid trailers for The Love Guru, I’m hoping Maxwell Smart blows that bearded idiot to bits.
Get Smart: Yet another TV show makes its way to the megaplex, with Anne Hathaway, Duane Johnson and Alan Arkin along for the ride. Review forthcoming Friday.
The Love Guru: Mike Myers tries to convince us that putting on a fake beard and speaking in a silly voice is funny and of itself. I’m not persuaded. I refer you to Harry Knowles review on Ain’t It Cool. Choice (printable) quote: “It is a pregnant woman smoking a cigarette and drinking a Coors Light.”
I’m out.
Arthouses
The Neon in Dayton continues with Son of Rambow and Young@Heart, and adds Helen Hunt’s directorial debut, Then She Found Me, to the mix.
The Little Art Theatre in Yellow Springs opens Son of Rambow Friday. On Sunday, the theatre will screen The Power Of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil, a documentary about how Cuba overcame an economic crisis.
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By SRCputt
June 19, 2008 4:29 PM | Link to this
The Arizona Republic on The Love Guru: “It’s a vanity project gone nuts, perhaps the most-egregious case of ego run amok since John Travolta subjected the world to Battlefield Earth.”By SRCputt
June 19, 2008 12:31 PM | Link to this
Read the Harry Knowles review of The Love Guru. I don’t think he liked it.