This over-hyped movie is not nearly as good as I was led to believe. In fact, it's kind of boring.The premise is that the real Elvis Presley is living in an old age home in the middle of nowhere Texas. He had switched places with an Elvis impersonator because he was getting tired of his own life-and after gyrating at one performance fell off the stage and landed in a coma for ten years.Also in the old age home is a man who thinks he's J.F.K, only this guy is black. 'They dyed me this color', he insists.And, of course, there is the mummy who is sucking the life-forces out of the building's residents. Elvis and J.F.K do some investigating and figure out that it's a mummy that was stolen from a museum years ago. The thieves crashed their vehicle into a nearby river during a storm and the mummy was trapped underwater for years. Now that it has managed to escape it needs to prey on others to sustain itself. My biggest problem is that actor Bruce Campbell is totally miscast as Elvis Presley. I didn't believe it for a minute. The worst Elvis impersonator I've ever seen is better than him! Most of the humor is the fifth grade kind, involving bodily orifices. For example, Elvis keeps on talking about this cancer he has growing on his penis, the mummy sucks the souls out of its victims through their assholes and even writes graffiti on the bathroom stalls! Maybe I didn't like BUBBA HOTEP because I'm not a big fan of Elvis. Maybe I didn't like it because it starred Bruce (overrated) Campbell. Or maybe I just didn't like it because it's a disappointing, mediocre movie.
This over-hyped movie is not nearly as good as I was led to believe. In fact, it's kind of boring.The premise is that the real Elvis Presley is living in an old age home in the middle of nowhere Texas. He had switched places with an Elvis impersonator because he was getting tired of his own life-and after gyrating at one performance fell off the stage and landed in a coma for ten years.Also in the old age home is a man who thinks he's J.F.K, only this guy is black. 'They dyed me this color', he insists.And, of course, there is the mummy who is sucking the life-forces out of the building's residents. Elvis and J.F.K do some investigating and figure out that it's a mummy that was stolen from a museum years ago. The thieves crashed their vehicle into a nearby river during a storm and the mummy was trapped underwater for years. Now that it has managed to escape it needs to prey on others to sustain itself. My biggest problem is that actor Bruce Campbell is totally miscast as Elvis Presley. I didn't believe it for a minute. The worst Elvis impersonator I've ever seen is better than him! Most of the humor is the fifth grade kind, involving bodily orifices. For example, Elvis keeps on talking about this cancer he has growing on his penis, the mummy sucks the souls out of its victims through their assholes and even writes graffiti on the bathroom stalls! Maybe I didn't like BUBBA HOTEP because I'm not a big fan of Elvis. Maybe I didn't like it because it starred Bruce (overrated) Campbell. Or maybe I just didn't like it because it's a disappointing, mediocre movie.
