It'll never happen with a movie this off the wall, but Campbell's version of an elderly Elvis actually deserves Oscar consideration -- it's that on-the-money real, hilarious and strangely touching.
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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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12/05/03
Campbell captures the essence of a once-proud man and, for that, he deserves a thankyouverramuch from the real Elvis. Wherever he is.
12/05/03
Bubba Ho-Tep takes care of business, baby.
12/04/03
Campbell gives the best Elvis impersonation to ever be seen on film. The movie is campy, but Campbell's performance is not, and that's a very important distinction.
12/02/03
Often hilarious low-budget romp.
11/26/03
Top CriticBubba Ho-Tep succeeds as goofy-yet- tender wish fulfillment, offering an Elvis who tries to redeem his self-indulgent persona and become a hero. It fails as the sort of Campbell vehicle that wears out VCRs and haunts midnight-movie houses.
11/21/03
Bubba 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 CriticA short time spent in love with an amiable whimsy.
11/20/03
A must see for fans of Bruce Campbell.
11/09/03
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
Bubba Ho-tep may sound bizarre, but it's a lot of fun.
10/30/03
Top CriticBubba Ho-Tep is lovely. It’s as sweet and endearing as a jelly doughnut. If a jelly doughnut were funny, it would be as funny as a jelly doughnut, a particularly droll one.
10/27/03
Doesn't really get good until Elvis uses his bedpan to crush an Egyptian scarab beetle that's 'the size of a peanut butter-and-banana sandwich'...
10/27/03
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10/22/03
Coscarelli, who brought us four volumes of Phantasm, is a surefooted B-movie journeyman, and for Bubba Ho-Tep he's in a generously lunatic mood.
10/17/03
Top CriticAs disappointing as the stale routines of most Elvis impersonators.
10/17/03
Campbell gives another notable acrobatic performance, which is saying something for an actor who has spent the best part of his career getting knocked around by ghosts and ghouls.
10/17/03
It has the damnedest ingratiating way of making us sit there and grin at its harebrained audacity, laugh at its outhouse humor, and be somewhat moved (not deeply, but somewhat) at the poignancy of these two old men and their situation.
10/17/03
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
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