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There was a thread on this a while back but it's been outdated so I'll start a new one.
Got to see this one over the weekend in Tucson (anybody reading this living in southern AZ, it's playing at the Loft until Friday).
Those of you not in the know, Bubba Ho-Tep is the story of an elderly Elvis Pressley (it's explained that the real Elvis swapped places with an impersonator shortly before his claimed death) residing in a nursing home where a mummy begins feeding on the residents. Elvis must team up with an elderly black man who may or may not be JFK to defeat the mummy.
This is without a doubt the most original and entertaining film I've seen in quite some time. Bruce Campbell gives his best performance (and arguably one of the year's best performances) as a geriatric Elvis. Ossie Davis is exceptional, but I couldn't get past the fact that he didn't have a Boston accent. Still, he does a great job as a paranoid JFK who is still terrified of LBJ.
This film succeeds because it offers something original. We have all the conventions of a buddy comedy, except that both of the buddies deal with the realistic limitations of their age. There are some very serious, somber moments as they contemplate what it means to be forgotten in a nursing home. This is coupled with some absolutely hilarious scenes of Elvis using his kung-fu like dance moves on his enemies, and JFK using his motorized wheelchair as a weapon.
The theater I saw this in sold out, and the director (Don Cascarelli of Phantasm fame) was there for a Q & A. He informed us that Bruce Campbell has done an entire commentary track in character for the DVD. Hopefully this movie gets the following it deserves once it hits the shelves, while more cookie-cutter Hollywood crap wastes time in the theaters.
Got to see this one over the weekend in Tucson (anybody reading this living in southern AZ, it's playing at the Loft until Friday).
Those of you not in the know, Bubba Ho-Tep is the story of an elderly Elvis Pressley (it's explained that the real Elvis swapped places with an impersonator shortly before his claimed death) residing in a nursing home where a mummy begins feeding on the residents. Elvis must team up with an elderly black man who may or may not be JFK to defeat the mummy.
This is without a doubt the most original and entertaining film I've seen in quite some time. Bruce Campbell gives his best performance (and arguably one of the year's best performances) as a geriatric Elvis. Ossie Davis is exceptional, but I couldn't get past the fact that he didn't have a Boston accent. Still, he does a great job as a paranoid JFK who is still terrified of LBJ.
This film succeeds because it offers something original. We have all the conventions of a buddy comedy, except that both of the buddies deal with the realistic limitations of their age. There are some very serious, somber moments as they contemplate what it means to be forgotten in a nursing home. This is coupled with some absolutely hilarious scenes of Elvis using his kung-fu like dance moves on his enemies, and JFK using his motorized wheelchair as a weapon.
The theater I saw this in sold out, and the director (Don Cascarelli of Phantasm fame) was there for a Q & A. He informed us that Bruce Campbell has done an entire commentary track in character for the DVD. Hopefully this movie gets the following it deserves once it hits the shelves, while more cookie-cutter Hollywood crap wastes time in the theaters.
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