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Matthew Huntley: It's definitely one of the summer's big bombs. Besides earning only a fraction of its budget on opening weekend, The Love Guru was also panned by critics, which is never good for legs at the box office. Even worse is how little audiences are actually responding to it theaters. During my screening, more people were scratching their heads and rolling their eyes than even chuckling. Speed Racer will definitely take the Bomb of the Year Award, but The Love Guru will come in a close second, and it's safe to say it will earn its fair share of Razzies. Such dis-honors are things you don't expect from a Mike Myers' movie.

Reagen Sulewski: Expectations had dropped so low that it almost seems like this couldn't feel like that bad of a bomb - and then it threw under those. There's still time for another blockbuster to really tank, but this might be the clubhouse leader. As far as Speed Racer goes, audiences didn't really like, or get Speed Racer, but it seems like they hated The Love Guru, so even though Speed Racer is a bigger disaster monetarily, Guru feels like a bigger bomb.

James D. Ruccio: I think Speed Racer still takes the title but I'm more happy that Love Guru bombed than any movie of recent memory. I'm almost insulted by how bad it looked.

I hate to trash anyone's artistic endeavors as I can only imagine how difficult it is to create a movie from first concept to finished product but Myers doesn't even appear to be trying. It's recycled jokes from the Austin Powers movies (which were mostly recycled or I'll rephrase, refined, as I found the sequels pretty funny), dumbed down.

And Max is right...I think the box office of Love Guru is surprising. Myers, as mentioned, has proven to be the bigger box office draw than Sandler, more consistent and recent. But again, those commercials were some of the worst movie comedy spots since some of Robin Williams recent bombs.

Scott Lumley: Uh, yeah. This pretty much places Myers in the 'has been' or 'lost it' category. He doesn't quite drop to 'M. Night Shamalyan' status and he's a fair way from Uwe Boll, but I'm betting Mike's not getting a lot of people answering his calls right now. The studio's got to be praying that the drop on this is ONLY '70%' so that they have a reasonable chance to recoup most of their money worldwide and domestically.

Daron Aldridge: That is a bold statement and if I can wish it into reality, then consider it wished for. Given the expected collapse in weekend two, Bomb of the Year would definitely be a lock, if not for Meet Dave or Starship Dave with Eddie Murphy on the horizon. With a reported $100 million price tag on Whatever Dave, Mike Myers might be saved from having the year's biggest pink slip generator by his Shrek co-star.

Sean Collier: Despite being a total failure in just about every measurable sense, The Love Guru will probably at least limp its way to making half of its budget domestically, breaking even worldwide. Bomb of the Year is all sewn up as the only contest that Speed Racer will win.

Jason Lee: This is by far not the bomb of the year. If anything, this film is the "Movie That Renews My Faith in the Intelligence of the American Moviegoing Audience" of the year. I think Speed Racer takes the Bomb of the Year title so far . . . as I found it to be a really strong film that didn't nearly receive the audience that it deserved.

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