Blue Hawaii Blue Hawaii

Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.

Elvis Presley Joan Blackman Angela Lansbury Nancy Walters Roland Winters John Archer Howard McNear Steve Brodie Christian Kay

Hal Wallis Productions

comedy music romance

102 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Bryan Colley

    Review by Bryan Colley ★★★

    Boy, Elvis is really likeable, charismatic, and weird looking. You’d think more rock stars would try to build a film career around their music. I guess Prince tried. It would have worked for Madonna if she just sang and danced in her movies (Moulin Rouge would have been perfect for her!) And Bowie? MTV has caused so much damage to film. Script by comedy writer Hal Kanter (Bob Hope, Jerry Lewis, and recently the Academy Awards) from a story by Allan Weiss (Sons of Katie Elder).

  • No-Personality

    Review by No-Personality ★★

    3 different movies in one. Two of them (the goofy island musical and the "must find independence from stuck-up family" 20-something angst fest) suck hard, the third (the "let's see the sights" while getting in "screwball" romantic flirt disasters tour-of-Hawaii flick) is bad but just bad enough to be fun (like a good episode of Saved by the Bell... which I admit is rare).

    Basically, it starts out as low as you can get. (Another commenter here, Robert, nailed it: the movie literally begins with Elvis singing songs to anyone who will listen about happily cheating on his girlfriend. Yet, after that scene, he flirts and then treats the women like there's something wrong in their heads for chasing after…

  • Noetic Hatter

    Review by Noetic Hatter ★★★ 4

    March Madness 2013 – No Re-Watch Edition.

    Teacher: "Do you think you can satisfy a schoolteacher and four teenage girls?"

    Elvis: "I'll sure try, Ma'am. I'll do all I can."

    Dated. Slow in places. Paternalistic. Corny. Even a little bit racist, despite what I suspect was the radical pairing of Elvis and a half-native girl.

    It's also funny. Sweet. And utterly charming. Whether your taste runs to gorgeous young women in bikinis and swimsuits or else to tan young men wearing only shorts, you'll get plenty to treasure here. Throw in the breathtaking Hawaii backdrop. Mix a lot of lovely music. And top it off with Elvis -- believe me, you will find it impossible not to be charmed by…

  • Gary Bartram

    Review by Gary Bartram ★★

    I was trying to watch through Elvis' films but this finished me. There all very generic and dull.

    Elvis is out of the Army and just wants to surf, his parents want him to work on their pineapple plantation. Angela Lansbury plays his mother in a terrible caricature. The songs aren't that good and the Elvis character isn't that nice.

    I did get a laugh right out of the gate, where a policeman stops the girlfriend of Elvis and just runs through his lines without stopping and talks right over the actress as she tries to get her line out.

  • Robert

    Review by Robert ½

    This is one of the worst films I've ever seen. It's beyond outdated and offensive as a result. Elvis' character is so unlikable, which gives me no motivation to be interested in anything he does. He sings a song to his girlfriend about cheating on her while he was in the army. He sings a song about a fat guy liking to eat.

    Terrible, terrible film.

  • ryaninteractive

    Review by ryaninteractive ★★★

    Oh my! Those girls sure do like Elvis. We are watching this in preparation for our trip next month. Angela Lansbury is the mom. My favorite moment was during the beginning Jen asked if that was Elvis and then he started signing. "That answers that question."

  • Ben Millett

    Review by Ben Millett ★★★★

    Great Elvis movie. Not a whole lot of plot. Angela Lansbury appears to have fun with her role. Excellent music.

  • SteveGibbs

    Review by SteveGibbs ★★★

    Fantastically cheesy - why don't they make movies like this anymore?