For me most Elvis movies rate about the same, below average. This one was cool in a couple of spots though so I guess its about average. Check out the scene where Elvis karate chops a jumping leopard (looked like a young one but still funny). And what about the karate factor? That was ahead of its time I think, Bruce Lee would be on TV after this in the Green Hornet, that Elvis knew how to spot trends way ahead of the rest. I say in my review title its like Star Trek, well if you look there's the Klingon Commander, and also the evil guy was in another Trek episode "Catspaw", plus the sets look like the same ones used in a Trek episode where they were on some planet. Even the titles used were straight out of I Dream of Jeanie (Barbara Feldon was married to that same Klingon dude, Michael Ansara, in real life lol). Well, thats about all of that. The fact that they are in Warestan means no Blondes so I liked seeing all the brunettes, and Billy Barty kicks some butt against hordes of knife wielding 6 foot dudes, so thats amusing (not really). Check out Elvis in a Vegas show at the end, man was that what I missed by not being old enough to see him in Vegas? He looked like a stick, clearly he wasn't happy doing this one. Still I give it a 5 on Elvis's movie scale, 10 I guess would be Jailhouse Rock, I don't know what 1 would be but than again its not like I go out of my way to watch Elvis movies. To think, it's 1965, only like 2 years out from the British invasion; the times they were a changin fast and left Elvis behind, didn't they?
Review of Harum Scarum
