Is Mike Myers cooked or just simmering?
Now that Mike Myers’ “The Love Guru” looks like a critical and commercial bomb, the buzzards are circling over the writer/star’s career. Is he over? Rolling Stone’s Peter Travers asks the question this way: “Is the failure of ‘The Love Guru’ merely a slip or a sign of dire things to come?” Given that “The Love Guru” came five years after his previous live-action film (the awful “The Cat in the Hat,” although he didn’t conceive that one), he can’t be feeling too encouraged now. And comedy is a funny thing (so to speak). What made us laugh several years ago might make us grimace now. Sacha Baron Cohen’s crazy-Kazakh misadventures among unsuspecting real folks in “Borat” struck us as hilarious, and he’s banking that we’ll feel the same about his gay Austrian fashionista in his upcoming “Bruno” movie. But people found Myers’ mustachioed guru’s mugging at the camera amid crotch and midget jokes to be juvenile and grating. “Austin Powers 4” would have been easier to market, but would we have
