According to CinemaBlend, The Universal Society of Hinduism is demanding an advance screening of Mike Myers’ new movie The Love Guru for Hindu leaders.

The request comes from a fear that the movie appears to be lampooning Hinduism while tossing about Hindu terminology frivolously, according to a press release issued by the group. President of the Society, Rajan Zed, stated that Hinduism should not be taken lightly, as the oldest and third largest religion in the world.

Reached for comment, Rajan said, "’His karma is huge’?  What does that even mean?  Is that supposed to be some sort of lame dick joke?  If one is to make a double entendre joke, at least one of the words in it has to have more than one meaning – that is the basic definition of double entendre! Rajan does not believe that is the case here.  Do not get me wrong, Rajan loves dick jokes. But ‘His karma is huge’?  That is not funny.  That does not even make sense.  Rajan watch movie trailer and the whole time Rajan think, ‘Has not Rajan already seen these jokes somewhere before?’  And then Rajan think, ‘Austin Powers!  Rajan already saw all these dumb gags in the Austin Powers movies.’  Rajan is offended by this Love Guru, for he presumes Rajan has never seen an American comedy movie before.  Rajan has seen many comedies.  Rajan loves Wedding Crashers.  But Rajan thinks Love Guru deserves direct-to-DVD release.  That is all – Rajan has spoken." 

MINI UPDATE – As pointed out by commenter "The Luchador", Myers may think he’s getting a pass because he’s buddies with Deepak Chopra [ha, more like DeeBAG Chopra - Ed.]. Relevant video after the jump. 

Ahh, nothing better than a comedian who will seriously discuss "his craft", is there?

Hey! Remember the jokes you loved from the 12 Austin Powers movies? (was it only three – sorry, it feels like 12) You know, fake legs behind the head, funny accents, accidentally saying offensive things to a disabled person, Verne Troyer getting hit in the face?  Well they’re back – yeah, baby!  Oh behave!  

But that’s not all!  There’s also Jessica Alba "acting" and Justin Timberlake doing a hilarious Borat impression!  If someone’s dick ends up in a box, I might just fungasm! 

The Love Guru opens June 20th – be there, or be the only one in the office who doesn’t get your boss’ references.

[Thanks to my svelte research assistant RoboPanda for the tip] 

In case you had any doubt Mike Myers’ next movie would be a pointless and stupid self-parody, the studio released this poster.  The Love Guru also stars Jessica Alba, and Justin Timberlake and is set for a June release.

Pitka (Myers) an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete (Timberlake). [via IMDB]

And according to the poster (click on the thumbnail for the full size), "his karma is huge."  Jesus christ, that’s the worst tagline since "The Bigger the Hit, the Harder They Fall" (Meet the Spartans), and you know at least 10 people had to sign off on it.  Aside from the fact that Karma can be neither big nor small, what the hell kind of half-assed double entendre is that?  I’ll admit that I don’t know much about Karma, except that my neighbor had a bumper sticker on her Suburu Outback that said hers ran over my dogma, but even that made more sense than this stupid fucking poster.  Mike Myers should probably just kill himself.