2.9
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Love Guru (2008)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Viewer Rating
Rating: 2.9
Overview
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Bias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
LGBTQ: Negative
Trans: Negative
Hinduism: Negative
Overview
Born in America and raised in an Indian ashram, Pitka returns to his native land to seek his fortune as a spiritualist and self-help expert. His skills are put to the test when he must get a brokenhearted hockey player's marriage back on track in time for the man to help his team win the Stanley Cup.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
The film's central themes of self-help, relationships, and celebrity satire are largely apolitical, with its comedic critique targeting general human foibles and commercialism rather than specific political ideologies.
The film includes a visibly diverse supporting cast, though its primary roles do not feature explicit DEI-driven recasting of traditionally white characters. The narrative maintains a neutral or positive framing of traditional identities, without centralizing strong DEI critiques.
Secondary
The Love Guru features LGBTQ+ characters whose identities are primarily used as a source of comedic ridicule. The film relies heavily on harmful stereotypes for characters like Jacques 'Le Coq' Grande and Coach Punch Cherkov, presenting their sexuality and mannerisms as punchlines rather than offering dignified or complex portrayals. The net impact is largely negative due to this problematic depiction.
The film features a character whose past sex reassignment surgery is revealed as a comedic twist. This portrayal uses the character's gender identity as a source of mockery, reinforcing harmful stereotypes and reducing their experience to a punchline, resulting in a negative overall impact.
The film satirizes the commercialization of Eastern spirituality through its portrayal of self-help gurus like Pitka. These characters and their Hindu-inspired practices are consistently depicted as foolish, hypocritical, and superficial, with no counterbalancing positive or nuanced representation of the faith itself.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Love Guru is an original film with characters created for this specific production. There is no prior source material, historical basis, or previous installments from which characters' genders could have been established and subsequently changed.
The Love Guru is an original film with characters created specifically for this production. There is no prior source material, historical record, or previous installment from which characters' races could have been established and subsequently changed.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
3.8
4.1
Critic Ratings
1.3
2.4
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