Spyglass has also backed its share of turkeys including The Love Guru and Underdog.

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In this case, let 2008 flops Love Guru (starring Myers), Meet Dave (starring Murphy) and My Own Worst Enemy (starring Slater) serve as examples.

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Hollywood films such as 2008's "The Love Guru" and 2005's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" -- which ends with a musical dance number -- also borrow from Bollywood, Newman said, but are comedies that parody the enchantment in Bollywood films.

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In this flat, sour, and contrived comedy, Roger (Jon Heder), a timid New York City parking cop who is overmatched at work and in love, signs up for classes with a macho confidence guru, Dr. P. (Billy Bob Thornton), and, taught to find his inner lion, gets up the nerve to ask out his secret dream girl, his Australian grad-student neighbor, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett).

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