Myers creation of Guru Pitka is not so much a new creation as it a retooling of his Austin Powers character. It is the same old schtick just dressed up in some new colors. Rather than riding the wave of an out-of-time, swinging spy, we get a sexually repressed American peddling new-agey Hindu themes. It just isn't that funny. It does not help that whenever Myers tells a joke he turns and winks to the camera. Ugh. Not funny.

As I sat in the theater, jokes falling dead all around me, I wondered where Austin was, where Wayne was (thanks for the reference to better times), where the poet from So I Married an Axe Murderer was — better characters all. This is just warmed over refuse that didn't make the cut before.

Justin Timberlake, whose over-the-top antics stole every scene he was in, and the duo of Stephen Colbert and Jim Gaffigan as a mismatched pair of hockey announcers delivered all of the genuinely funny moments. Jessica Alba is an attractive, yet insubstantial presence, and Verne Troyer is all right, but the short jokes can only take you so far.

Myers is a talented comedian; just watch some of those older films, or his Saturday Night Live sketches. This movie just meanders all over the place, throwing out as many potential laughers as it can, hoping that something will stick. The material is sophomoric, but that isn't the problem; the problem is that it is embarrassing more than it is funny.

Bottom line. I wanted to like this. Despite my trailer reactions and my very low expectations, I wanted to like this. Mike, I'm still a fan, just stop working below your talent level. Hopefully the next time we see Mike the movie will be funny.

Not Recommended.