Girls Girls Girls (1962)
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Actor: Benson Fong, Elvis Presley, Jeremy Slate, Laurel Goodwin, Stella StevensBrand: PRESLEY,ELVIS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-07
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
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DVD Review: The Only Thing Sillier Than Elvis's Singing Was His Acting
Summary: 1 Stars
Elvis Presley has to be the greatest mass media produced scam of all time. Only in America could a hillbilly who literally had an IQ under 80 make it to icon status. Presley had a second grader's vocabulary, and sang nothing but three chord, twelve bar juvenile songs that required no breath control or technical skill. The only thing sillier than his songs were his films, like "Girls, Girls, Girls," which are the most formulaic, mindless [junk] ever put on film. All of these exercises in childishness are interchangeable---"Girls, Girls, Girls," "Spin-out," "Clambake,", etc. He did not make a single film that could be remotely described as sophisticated fare. He never acted in a substantial dramatic role or in a comedy that rose above the fun-for-the-feeble mentality. For that matter, when did he ever sing a classic American pop standard ballad or jazz tune? A Cole Porter, Richard Rogers, or Hoagy Carmichael tune was far beyond his limited vocal acumen----in part because such a song would have required 'Ol Elvis to change keys, tempos, and modulate among flats, sharps, diminished, and extended chords---I doubt Presley even knew the meanings of these musical terms. For how many years and how many times did he repeat the same three-chord, twelve bar formula of "Hound Dog? and "Heartbreak Hotel?" A million times. Even as a 42 year old man he stood in Las Vegas on stage with a ridiculous pompadour piled up a foot atop his head, sunglasses that looked like leftover gag spectacles from vaudeville, sideburns that put even the hickiest of the "Hee Haw" regulars to shame , and popping buttons galore in front of his fans because of his gargantuan symmetry due to his utter lack of self-discipline. This travesty reached its apex as he growled and groaned the same three chord nonsense over and over and over again. Indeed, in his final years he sang as though he were constipated. No announciation, no tonality, no breath control. The band provided the only sound that was legitimate and palatable (albeit simplistic) while Presley emitted undecipherable lyrics in a barely identifiable monotone hum. Kind of like the sound your refrigerator makes late at night. This is singing? Every once and awhile he would grace the listening audience with a bar or two of a pseudo-bass voice that sounded impressive to musical neophytes but was easily recognized by true musicians as veneer with no substance. Did he ever hold a note on key for longer than five seconds? The plots of his films were so contrived as to be mindless. Despite his inability to play even basic scales on a guitar, the instrument was omnipresent. Predictably in virtually all of his films, a guitar would inexplicably and mysteriously materialize in the oddest of places----in a row boat, on top of a mountain, in the bathtub, etc., without regard for plot or believability. Forget the fact that Presley couldn't carry a tune on guitar across the street. In truth, not only was Presley a dimwit of very marginal talent, but he wasn't even the best of the rockabilly performers. For instance, Carl Perkins, who was self-admittedly no Beethoven, wrote songs, played a great guitar, and sang in a powerful tenor-near-baritone voice---and he was singing the three chord stuff years before Presley (who wrote no songs and played no instruments in even a remotely legitimate manner---they'd have him pose with a guitar for photos now and then to fool gullible fans into believing that his strumming on film was the real thing). Even Gene Vincent had a more subtle, tonally superior voice than Presley. As for serious popular vocalists like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, etc.....Presley wasn't even in the same league. In fact, he wasn't even in the same hemisphere. He was an impressionable, uneducated, unsophisticated kid who looked good to young girls while shaking his hips on stage; and because of his lack of intelligence, he was easy prey for Colonel Tom Parker and the other shrewdies and shysters who manufactured him into a national idol and then exploited him until he became a sad caricature of himself. As P.T. Barnum once said, "Never underestimate the stupidity of the American people." Elvis Presley, whose sideburns were far more conspicuous than either his intelligence or talent, is a supreme case in point. "Thank you. Thank you very much. Now somebody pass me some more of them peanut butter and banana sandwiches and sweet potato pie! Hey, that thing you're holding, is that a guitar? Hey, won't somebody show me how to get a C chord on this guitar contraption,...huh...huh...huh? Hey, somebody hand me my buttons from my multi-colored sequined costume----they're popping all over the place! By the way, have my sideburns completely encircled my face yet? Huh, huh, huh? Hey, once this concerto...er...concert or whatever you call it is over, let's say we hop into my pickup truck, grab a sixpack, and mosey on over to the wrestling match! We sure is a sophisticated bunch, ain't we?" Long live the King! Elvis, may I have your autograph? What's that? You don't remember if you know how to write? What's that? The King has left the building and headed out to McDonalds?
Description of Girls Girls Girls (1962)
No Description Available.Genre: Musicals
Rating: PG
Release Date: 14-AUG-2007
Media Type: DVD
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