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My husband is an Elvis fan and loves it. He watches it over and over.

This is my favorite Elvis 60's movie... the character is probably the closest Elvis ever played to himself, and he was so huge at this point and hating doing movies so much he didn't care if he came off as a jerk, so it's valuable from that point of view. Also, the go-go stuff is fantastic, a lot of Austin Powers came out of this movie. It moves quick, you never once really think you're in Europe, just great American quickie factory filmaking all around. Did they ever know how to light sets and make color pop! The music rocks, the strings Elvis hated on the blues tune "There's So Much World To See" are the best thing about the song, the opening theme is one of the best big band rock themes since "The Delicate Delinquent" starring Jerry Lewis, and you know Gillian Anderson's mother had to have seen this movie! And plenty of plot twists and turns which were highly unusual in any Elvis movie. Oh, and who can ever forget Elvis on the back of a fake chicken truck singing "Old MacDonald". Yeah, I know the Rolling Stone crowd puked, but that's exactly what made it great, and he and Annette looked like they were really having fun with it.

One of Elvis's best, right up there with "Loving You".