I saw this one at the theater, sorry to say. It was the worst use to which I've ever put $9.50 in my life. Once again, however, I find my views in the minority -- which is entirely inexplicable to me, given the dank waste of time this film represents.
After a handful of fair-enough gags in the first part of the film and one mildly amusing fight between Elvis and a oversized, flying scarab beetle, there followed nothing but silly, perfunctory nonsense, contrived character motivation, and stabs at humor so obvious and so stale that you can see them coming so long before they arrive that you have ample time to anticipate, with ire and boredom, the obvious, tired old gag when it finally arrives. In support of this, I cite the flashback when the "real" Elvis meets the faux Elvis for the first time -- thereupon follows a scene of entirely predictable amazement and jaw-dropping disbelief on the part of the hero, a scene that fails to provoke any real amusement, unless one simply enjoys the empty repetition of trite conventions.
The rest of this uninteresting film is taken up with a unconvincing, plot resolution that provides little entertainment and less humor than was clearly intended. Sorry to dissent, but this film is a total stinker that will face deserved oblivion. No cult following for this thing. I've told everyone I know to avoid it assiduously.
After a handful of fair-enough gags in the first part of the film and one mildly amusing fight between Elvis and a oversized, flying scarab beetle, there followed nothing but silly, perfunctory nonsense, contrived character motivation, and stabs at humor so obvious and so stale that you can see them coming so long before they arrive that you have ample time to anticipate, with ire and boredom, the obvious, tired old gag when it finally arrives. In support of this, I cite the flashback when the "real" Elvis meets the faux Elvis for the first time -- thereupon follows a scene of entirely predictable amazement and jaw-dropping disbelief on the part of the hero, a scene that fails to provoke any real amusement, unless one simply enjoys the empty repetition of trite conventions.
The rest of this uninteresting film is taken up with a unconvincing, plot resolution that provides little entertainment and less humor than was clearly intended. Sorry to dissent, but this film is a total stinker that will face deserved oblivion. No cult following for this thing. I've told everyone I know to avoid it assiduously.