Fun in Acapulco
by Richard Thorpe
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Actor: Elsa C?rdenas, Elvis Presley, Larry Domasin, Paul Lukas, Ursula AndressDirector: Richard Thorpe
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Fun in Acapulco
Movie Review: GREAT VISUALS, GREAT SONGS , TIGHT SCRIPT
Summary: 5 Stars
I've always liked this film. Since my family didn't have money to travel, Elvis' 'travelogues' as he contemptously referred to them, were a welcome change of scenery when I was in my early teens and these films were first shown on network TV. Elvis was cool, he was in some of the most beautiful locales in the world, surrounded by beautiful women but otherwise he had a hospitality kind of job. Any guy could imagine being Elvis and having his looks and talent. In a perfect world, Elvis would have had a multi-faceted career that reflected his talent. He would have scored in dramatic roles, recorded great interpretations of R&B standards as well as superior romantic ballads in addition to doing these 'travelogues.' As a savvy business man, he could have made canny investments in resort hotels and travel services which this type of film would have promoted. Sort of like Jimmy Buffett does today.
Summary of Fun in Acapulco
In 1963 Elvis could still be energized by the music in his movies, and the production values hadn't yet descended to budget-crunching level. Thus the breezy pleasure of Fun in Acapulco, which sees the pelvis-swinger coming to life for a rousing "Bossa Nova Baby" and a clutch of faux-Mexican tunes. Nice scenery of the fabled resort, but the movie has a strange disconnect (which becomes weirdly fascinating if you keep track of it): Elvis himself is limited to standing and singing in front of rear-projection Mexican vistas, while his hard-working double bicycles down streets, strides across beaches, etc. The newly hot Ursula Andress keeps Elvis and his double company. Elvis's jobs are among his craziest movie gigs: he begins as a deckhand, is hired as a nightclub entertainer/lifeguard, but is revealed to be a trapeze artist in his former life. By the end, of course, he is also a cliff diver. --Robert HortonRocking and rolling south of the border, "Fun in Acapulco" finds Elvis starring as Mike Windgren, a recently unemployed boat hand who finds work as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashing with a rival lifeguard who resents Mike's competition of who can impress the women the most. Tempted by a lady bullfighter (Cardenas) and a beautiful temptress (Andress), Windgren must rely on his ability to croon Latin love songs including "You Can't Say No in Acapulco" and "Bossa Nova Baby" to prove his romantic prowess.
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