![]() ![]() I enjoy a stupid movie every now and then and admit I enjoyed this one. The "falling guard" gag is one of the best sight gags in the history of movies - I challenge anyone not to laugh at it. Strangely it is rumoured that he didn't realise this was a satire! The stupidity of many Elvis movies and those Saturday morning children's reels (scientist and beautiful daughter) are taken to the cleaners and you have fantastic sight gags. He can sing and dance better than many real singers and he proved in The Doors that he is really a major musical force. Not only is this a bizarre world but seems to be playing games with time and history, the communist East Germany being portrayed as a kind of war time Nazi set-up! Kilmer does well with an impossible role to the point where you wonder if he didn't miss his vocation. Forget about the film itself, the very idea of an Elvis Presley movie being mixed with a French resistance film and produced by the Airplane! crew is enough for laugh number one. An American rock and roll idol goes behind the iron curtain (while there was one!) for a culture fest but instead becomes involved in the resistance movement.
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