Campbell’s is the most believable Elvis I’ve ever seen on film, and that’s counting the actual Elvis as himself in all those silly movies from the 60s.
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10/13/03
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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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Reviews for Bubba Ho-Tep
You may never see a horror-comedy with greater resemblance to About Schmidt.
10/12/03
Surprisingly good as a quirky triumph of human spirit.
10/10/03
Beloved cult star Bruce Campbell has rarely been as good as he is here.
10/10/03
A low-budget comedy chiller that makes up in dog-eared charm what it lacks in fright.
10/09/03
Top CriticIt's fun just to watch Bruce Campbell be a curmudgeonly Elvis
10/09/03
Coscarelli, 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 CriticElvis and JFK are in their own way like kids in the sandbox, with an imaginary world that matters more than the drab reality which boring adults are incapable of seeing past.
10/08/03
Kitschy, lowbrow, and aggressively low-budget; a one-of-a-kind film experience.
10/07/03
Channel your own inner Elvis and check out this riotously funny film.
10/04/03
A king-size treat.
10/04/03
[Coscarelli] has a loamy gift for drive-in satisfaction.
10/03/03
Coscarelli gives this low-rent lunacy an accomplished visual look as well as plenty of B-movie charm.
10/03/03
Top CriticIf you can swing with the central idea and accept the production limitations as a kind of offbeat virtue, you'll likely find this smartly silly horror comedy to be, of all things, rewarding.
10/03/03
A one-joke horror comedy that rarely capitalizes on its wacky premise.
10/03/03
The best comedy ever made about Elvis, JFK, a soul-sucking ancient Egyptian and giant cockroaches ... [but] the film can't sustain the humor.
10/02/03
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 CriticIt keeps surprising you at nearly every turn.
10/02/03
a smart comedy that dares to take on the sublime and the ridiculous, succeeding on both counts with equal aplomb
09/27/03
Bubba Ho-Tep has everything one might expect from a movie directed by Don Coscarelli and starring Bruce Campbell
09/27/03
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