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Bubba Ho-Tep review by Shatner's Bassoon
Smart, stylish and utterly brilliant.
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On paper the plot of 'Bubba Ho-Tep' has to be one of the most bizarre storylines of all time. Elvis Presley did not die in 1977; tired of fame he secretly traded places with an Elvis impersonator named Sebastian Haff, and while the impersonator died in 1977, the real Elvis is now a geriatric 68 year old living in a run down Texas retirement home called 'Shady Rest'. His glory days are behind him, and whenever he claims to be the real Elvis Presley everyone just laughs at who they think is just a crazy old Elvis impersonator obviously going senile in his old age. Tired and depressed he spends his time lying in bed reflecting on his career and contemplating if he made the right choices in life. When he discovers an 4000 year old Egyptian mummy is inhabiting a small shed within the grounds of the retirement home and is coming out at night to feast on the souls of the elderly residents, he teams up to defeat the mummy with an old black man claiming to be John F. Kennedy, who says the government covered up the JFK assassination by dyeing him black, putting a bag of sand in his head, and dumping him in a retirement home. As weird as the plot sounds, 'Bubba Ho-Tep' is an absolute gem. The dialogue is witty, razor sharp and very funny, especially scenes where Elvis and JFK mull over the possible meanings of some hieroglyphic graffiti scrawled on a bathroom wall by the mummy. At the end of the day, how can anyone not love a film which features an aged Elvis battling a 4000 year old mummy with a zimmer frame?!!
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