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12/05/03
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Bubba Ho-Tep (2003)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:78
Rotten:22
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: The best movie to star both the King and JFK.
Theatrical Release:Sep 19, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP finds Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) alive but not so well, living in a small Texas nursing home. Although he's preoccupied with his ailments and his memories, the... [More]
Starring: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyce, Larry Pennell
Director: Don Coscarelli
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04/29/09
As disappointing as the stale routines of most Elvis impersonators.
10/17/03
the true horror here, far from being some middle-eastern revenant in a cowboy hat, is the indignity of disease, the anonymity of old age, and the inevitability of death
10/30/04
This movie is exactly what you would expect once you know the premise - beyond silly with equal parts quirky and dark comedy thrown in the mix.
11/07/03
The moment the plot takes hold, this most likable film unmercifully dies.
02/29/04
Ho-Tep is a punch line in search of a setup.
09/25/03
Top CriticBubba Ho-Tep sounds more like a hip Saturday Night Live skit. Unfortunately, it also plays like a standard SNL movie, all high concept with little story.
12/08/03
Bubba Ho-Tep tries ineffectually to be both a lyrical character study and a darkly satirical horror flick.
09/30/04
Coscarelli's wacky weirdness is too clever by half, and the hi-def video look is not a pleasure to behold.
02/03/04
Writer-director Don Coscarelli piles on unpleasant details and cynical asides as if they were the stuff of wisdom, though they seem intended to produce guffaws rather than thoughts
09/24/07
Top CriticCoscarelli ... can't quite conjure a complete movie out the concept and stretches the material until its humorous conceits repeat ad nauseum.
10/16/03
Writer-director Don Coscarelli, maker of such potent cult films as Phantasm and The Beastmaster, fails to come up with enough incidents and action to make this overly leisurely picture the zany fun it means to be.
10/02/03
Top CriticThere are much more rewarding films to rent.
10/23/02
Neither particularly funny nor scary, but tiresome.
01/09/04
Top CriticCoscarelli, writer-director of the logy, fatuous Bubba Ho-Tep, is trying to will a cult movie into existence -- which, of course, never works.
10/08/03
Top CriticBubba Ho-Tep offers plenty of tasty warped humor but doesn't have quite enough comic gas to become a cult classic.
11/21/03
Top CriticBubba has a couple of terrific performances and some major laughs, but it's so badly paced that at only 92 minutes it seems overlong.
12/19/03
Coscarelli's pacing pokes along like Elvis in his walker, and the horror finale is slow and pointless.
01/30/04
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