The Love Guru starring and written by actor Mike Myers has bombed at the box office. Many thought the movie would go head-to-head with Steve Carell in Get Smart this weekend for the coveted top spot. It is not going to even come close

The movie opened Friday night in 4th place in theaters. The Love Guru opened on 3,012 screens and made just $5,425,000 for an average of $1,800 per screen. By comparison Get Smart opened on 3,911 screens for $13,500,000 and an average of $$3,452 per screen according to Box Office Mojo.

Guru has been promoted and advertised non-stop starting with the contestants on American Idol going to see Mike Myers in character as the ‘Love Guru’ as well as Myers showing up as the guru during one of the last Idol shows this season.

Production costs for the film were over $64 million dollars.

The average critics score on Yahoo! movies is D+ and with Yahoo! users it is a C with over 850 ratings.

Film synopsis of The Love Guru:

Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child and raised by gurus. He moves back to the U.S. to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality. His unorthodox methods are put to the test when he must settle a rift between Toronto Maple Leafs star hockey player Darren Roanoke (Romany Malco) and his estranged wife. After the split, Roanoke’s wife starts dating L.A. Kings star Jacques Grande (Justin Timberlake) out of revenge, sending her husband into a major professional skid - to the horror of the teams’ owner Jane Bullard (Jessica Alba) and Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer). Pitka must return the couple to marital nirvana and get Roanoke back on his game so the team can break the 40-year-old “Bullard Curse” and win the Stanley Cup.

The movie has looked like a bust every time it has been shamelessly promoted over the past few months. Either Justin Timberlake in a Speedo scared away audiences or without it the movie wouldn’t have registered on the the box office richter scale this weekend.

Myers has created and brought us big hits like Wayne’s World and Austin Powers, but Mike comes up way short with The Love Guru.

UPDATE: ‘Get Smart’ Takes Mediocre Weekend at Box Office