Blue Hawaii
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Movie Reviews of Blue Hawaii
Movie Review: My favorite Elvis movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
My favorite Elvis song of all time is "I can't help falling in love with you." When my sister got married in Nevis this past summer, the sounds of the steel drum band playing that song were so beautiful. Elvis is great in this movie. He loved Hawaii and this movie shows that. The music is great as is the plot, especially for an Elvis movie. Although most Elvis movies are for the most part very simmilar, this one stands out in my mind. I highly recomend it!Movie Review: Elvis in Hawaii and in trouble again.
Summary: 5 Stars
Blue Hawaii has Elvis Presley on the island for the first time. And has returned home after a two years stay in the army. Chad Gates (Elvis Presley) has come home from the army. And while he was away he keep kept getting a letter from his mother and father every week reminding him of his home and his future in his father's pine apple business. And Chad doesn't want to hear "He's the boss's song be nice to him."So he decides to get his girlfreind to to drive him to the beach. And for 5 days he stays there. While his father named Fred Gates finds out that Chad is home he pays Chad's girlfriend a visit at her job.
He has heard that Chad has been back but his mother Sara Lee doesn't know this. So his girl firend goes to the beach and Chad tells her "Oh Yes, I can, the G.I. Bill Of Rights Say I get my old job back this is my old job."
But does go home any way.
Movie Review: Great Elvis Film
Summary: 4 Stars
Classic Elvis Movie served OK on this DVD. The picture quality is pretty good, I just noticed a few digital gliches in in, it skips in a few places when changing sceens.The sound is 5.1, but it more or less seems just like dolby digital untill the musical sceens come on. That can be a bit distracting at first, but hey an elvis song in surround sound! sounds pretty good.Movie Review: Elvis in Hawaii.
Summary: 4 Stars
Viewing this 1961 movie from the perspective of 2001 is a nostalgic treat. It recalls the days when the hottest venue in town was the local movie theater showing Beach Party movies, Vincent Price/Edgar Allan Poe flicks, John Wayne Westerns, and Elvis' latest musical romp."Blue Hawaii" is the prototype of Elvis' subsequent movies. It helped change his movie persona from the James Dean wannabe of the pre-army movies into the familiar pop rock star of the mid-'60s. A very slender Elvis returns home from the army and settles in to enjoy life in the sun and spend time with his girl, Maile (Joan Blackman). His stuffy parents disapprove of his beach bum life, disapprove of his friends, and want him to put his nose to the family grindstone in his father's business. This conflict sets in motion the lightweight plot with its obligatory singing, dancing, and romantic complications. As in many of Elvis' pictures, the story merely serves as a framework for the 14 or so musical numbers. Among the best are "Rock-A-Hula Baby," "Beach Boy Blues," and the classic "Can't Help Falling in Love." The scenery is wonderful, the music is fun, and the comedy provokes both groans and chuckles. Angela Lansbury is hilarious as Elvis' southern belle mother. Her air-headed character is an amusing satire of Tennessee Williams. Howard McNear (you know, Floyd the barber on "Andy Griffith") is funny as a befuddled owner of a tourist service. Joan Blackman and a bevy of nubile beauties look good in sixties swimwear. Great color photography and solid Hall Wallis production values add to the enjoyment. Kick back and enjoy the fun. ;-)
Movie Review: Light Hearted Musical
Summary: 4 Stars
Great location, great music, poor script - but who really cares when Elvis is on screen doing his thing and singing some of the best songs to ever come out of one film.Elvis returns to the islands from the army determined not to enter into his rich father's pineapple business, preferring to try and make a go of a tour guide business with his Hawaiian girlfriend. His snobbish mother; Landsbury in a great over the top acting part complete with Southern drawl,("Have you got some sugar for your mother?") is horrified but she and his father eventually agree to let him try.
After various plot twists involving a tourist group made entirely up of young girls, he eventually makes a go of things and marries the girl.
Favourite songs have to be, Can't Help Falling In Love, which he sings to his girlfriend's grandmother for her birthday and Almost Always True. Other songs are, Rock A Hula Baby, Hawaiian Wedding Song, Blue Hawaii, Aloha Oe, No More, Moonlight Swim, Ku-u-i-po, Ito Eats, Slicin' Sand, Hawaiian Sunset, Beachboy Blues and Island of Love.
Nice piece of romantic, musical escapism.