The Guru

There's not a whole lot of heft to von Scherler Mayer's romantic comedy with ethnic Indian entanglements; it's like overdone naan, too flaky and ephemeral for its own good, but still somehow appetizing.

A precipitous comedic falloff in the third quarter earns the film a qualified recommendation at best.

With a reach that frequently falls short, higher wit and sexual sophistication crumble into plain old silliness.

A trifle, a silly one at that, but it's a charming trifle that's hard to resist.

The movie offers up too many airy spiritual lessons in the hope of crossing from farce to sentiment.

It's the kind of half-cocked story only a Hollywood executive living in the midst of pretense, piety and crackpot fads could love.

Has the kind of edge and creativity (not to mention nudity) that mainstream 'rom-coms' almost uniformly lack.

Not only a tepid Bollywood imitation, but a tepid film, period.