10 Exact Movie Moments That Killed A Career

1. The Love Guru - Mike Myers

For as long as Shrek exists there will always be work for Mike Myers, but the Wayne’s World star’s live-action career promptly grinded to a halt after 2008’s shambolic The Love Guru. Films labelled comedy usually tend to have, y’know, comedy in them, yet The Love Guru barely conjured up a single half-decent joke throughout its 87-minute runtime. Not only that, but elements of the movie were borderline racist as Mike Myers flushed his career down the toilet.

Bar a super-brief cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and a supporting role in this year’s Bohemian Rhapsody, Myers hasn’t appeared in a live-action movie since The Love Guru. And you know what’s most frustrating about this? The fact that Mike Myers was once viewed as one of the outright most hilarious people on the planet.

To pick one particular scene to highlight as the moment that killed Mike Myers’ career would be ludicrous considering how awful the entire movie is. With that in mind, we’ll just direct you to the above scene as an example of this atrocity of a film.

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