Continuing my role as NHL FanHouse's resident cinephile, here is the first trailer for the new Mike Myers comedy "The Love Guru," which has a hockey-centric plot with officially licensed references to the NHL. This film seems to play like Myers's "Austin Powers" series, what with the group dance scenes and the Verne Troyer and the immediately quotable catchphrases ("Lock it down ... break the pickle.") I laughed a few times, liked a few things -- including Romany Malco as a lovelorn NHLer getting pummeled around the rink, and Justin Timberlake's appearance as his arrogant French rival. But I'm still a little weary about building a comedy around this "Pitka" character, which seems more "Goldmember" than Wayne Campbell.
Neither Mike Myers nor Jessica Alba have any business being connected to hockey, even as remotely as they are in this movie. Call it what you will, but hockey is in enough trouble as it is with a crap-person running the league without a couple crap actors using the game as a foil for a crap movie with a crap plot crap writing and crap jokes. As a former hockey player, I am disgusted with both Hollywood and what ever jack-off at the league gave the studio license to use the NHL logo. This shows how little imagination Hollywood has these days. This movie is the dregs of the movie industry using a washed up, over-acting, comedy star, re-heated jokes from a previous franchise (one that was only mildly successful), and the NHL is not helped by being associated with it. Can we say Mystery, Alaska? Come on, Russel Crowe playing hockey?
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3-19-2008 @ 4:30PM
Sir Vicious de Malice said...
Neither Mike Myers nor Jessica Alba have any business being connected to hockey, even as remotely as they are in this movie. Call it what you will, but hockey is in enough trouble as it is with a crap-person running the league without a couple crap actors using the game as a foil for a crap movie with a crap plot crap writing and crap jokes. As a former hockey player, I am disgusted with both Hollywood and what ever jack-off at the league gave the studio license to use the NHL logo. This shows how little imagination Hollywood has these days. This movie is the dregs of the movie industry using a washed up, over-acting, comedy star, re-heated jokes from a previous franchise (one that was only mildly successful), and the NHL is not helped by being associated with it. Can we say Mystery, Alaska? Come on, Russel Crowe playing hockey?
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