Bubba Ho-tep
[DVD Info]

Elvis Presley (Bruce Campbell) isn’t dead. In fact, he’s very much alive and breathing in a rest home in Mud Creek, Texas…with a growth on his manhood and a distorted reality of time. He often wonders what Pricilla would do if she knew he was alive and often wonders about his penis. In fact that all he does is sit and wonder. Everyone thinks that he’s completely crazy except one man named Jack (Ossie Davis). Jack is actually John F. Kennedy, but they took out a part of his brain and replaced it with sand and also dyed him black in a huge cover-up.

One night Elvis gets up to use the bathroom and on his way back a scarab beetle attacks him. Jack says it’s Lyndon B. Johnson or Castro that’s coming back to finish the job but after being disturbed by scuttling a few times he decides it’s a new kind of assassin. It’s an Eygptian soul sucker. After running into a mummy Elvis decides to believe him. Together Elvis and Kennedy try to rid the rest home of the soul sucker. Will they succeed or will their souls disappear forever?

John F. Kennedy was dyed black during a cover-up.
Scarab beetles scream.
The most common way to suck a soul is through your anus.
Zombies are outfitted in cowboy wear.
Patients considers senile are allowed to wander wherever they like.

"Would you like a ding-dong? Oh, I don't mean *mine*! I mean a chocolate ding-dong. Of course mine *would* be chocolate now that I've been dyed." ~Jack.

None! I loved the actors in this movie!

This movie definitely had a good premise. The two main characters/actors had absolutely awesome chemistry and the story was interesting. But man alive…this was a boring movie. There are a lot of arguments that this movie was filmed in a geriatric home and you should expect a slow moving environment but I honestly don’t know how much longer I wanted to sit there and listen to Elvis talk about his penis. In fact, I think the entire first 40 minutes is dedicated to his penis (not literally of course, but it sure felt like it). They spent entirely too much time on character development, which is of course sort of ironic because movies like these don’t really have any sort of character development. It’s nice to have a back-story but it went along so slowly. I think most people were expecting a hilarious duo that kicks mummy butt…this was hardly the case. I’m assuming that this was supposed to be a B movie (considering Bruce Campbell was a main character) but they blew past bad and filled it with boredom. This movie actually isn’t BAD…just so achingly slow. I spent 20 minutes of the movie trying to fix my computer while listening. Oh well. The best thing this movie had going for it was Ossie Davis who played Kennedy. He was HILARIOUS! Anytime he was on screen I was immediately drawn to the screen. Everything he said was funny…his lines were awesomely timed and his delivery was perfect. Anyway, I heard this was a funny movie but I wasn’t really impressed. It wasn't even that B-movie-ish. It had its moments but I was kinda disappointed in the end. Too bad. Because of this, the jury gives this flick:

(Disappointed)

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