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Unbelievable quality! It's sharper and clearer than anything I've seen to date, and this is from the 60s even. Wow... is all I can say. It's as if you were there with Elvis in Vegas at the time, yet it feels like it was shot just yesterday, like it's beyond 1080p or something. I could watch this disc over and over again and still be floored. The audio is impressive for stereo and the back of the case doesn't mention extras but there are a couple included (not in HD mind you but at least they're there). Take care of business and buy this, it's reference HD!
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I just received this High Definition version of Viva Las Vegas and it is spectacular. This is apparently a newly mastered version from the original negative and it is as this movies was just made this year. The video and audio is spectacular. Warner Home Video is to be highly congratulated for a job well done in a firt class manner. All we need from them now, is for them to do the same thing with That's The Way It Is and Blue Hawaii.
I could not recommed this movie in HD any higher . It deserves 10 stars instead of 5.
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One of the more exciting ones in my opinion. Elvis and Ann Margaret equal a great combination!
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This is a fun movie as everyone knows. RE: the DVD itself... the picture is fantastic, crystal clear. The 5.1 audio mix is great. Clearly some time, thought and effort went into the remastering of the film. However, the DVD bonus material is lacking. There's nothing much to the featurette (sort of to be expected). My main gripe however is with the audio commentary by "historian" Steve Pond. He doesn't offer much as far as info that most Elvis fans don't already know. Worse yet, he gets a couple Elvis facts 100% wrong. Here's the breakdown:
1. He talks about Elvis' sense of humor, explains that it was lowbrow, consisting only of boyish pranks, etc. He paints a picture of Elvis being shallow in that regard. Nothing could be further from the truth. Elvis did get a kick out of boyish pranks, however his sense of humor ran the full spectrum of silly to sophistication. One of his all-time favorite movies was "Dr. Strangelove." Obviously there are levels of subtlety, irony, sophistication to that movie. Also, he was a huge fan of Monty Python (five years before that craze fully caught on in America, btw). And -- yes -- Monthy Python can be just plain dumb, but there's also a level of subversive -- yet insane -- intelligence to what they do. Elvis was also a fan of Saturday Night Live, etc. The list goes on. The point being, Elvis was NOT just simply about boyish "pie in the face" comedy.
2. Steve Pond points out that "Viva Las Vegas" was the last Elvis movie where the producers put any real thought or effort into the production. Okay, that's a somewhat legitimate point. However, he lists two examples of later sub-par efforts that, in fact, were not sub-par -- "Stay Away, Joe" and "The Trouble with Girls". "Stay Away, Joe" was no masterpiece... but it does have its merits. For one, it's one of the few movies where Elvis plays an "adult" role -- he smokes cigars, beds down women without apology, etc. Also there's some great cinematography and use of outdoor location in the film. It's not just a typical fake Hollywood backlot like 90% of Elvis' movies. Add to that, Elvis is clearly having fun in the role. He's not just sleep-walking through it like say what you see in "Paradise Hawaiian Style."
As far as "The Trouble with Girls" ... this is actually one of Elvis' better movies. It has a great supporting cast; Vincent Price, Dabney Coleman, etc. And, again, a nice use of outdoor locations. Also, it's a more interesting and adult role for Elvis. He's not some cartoonish G-rated "race car driver" or the like. He plays a charming con man, the leader of a travelling carnival. This role fit him nicely since he was something of a charming con man in real life. And again, you can see Elvis is having a good time, he looks great, and he's not sleep-walking through the movie.
If you listen to the audio commentary on "Viva Las Vegas", just take it with a grain of salt... or several grains of salt. It's certainly not the definitive portrait of Elvis.
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This is not normally my type of thing. I don't watch a lot of musicals, I have never seen another Elvis film, and apparently, using this as a launchpad for watching all those other Elvis films would be a dangerous escapade; it seems that most of them are badly-done rubbish.
But this was a lot of fun. Much as I enjoyed the music and dancing, and as appreciative as I was of Ann-Margaret's zing througout, I especially liked the humour that helps carry the film, even as the plot turns in merely a cameo role. There are some great one-liners, and some funny extended shtick--like Elvis, as Lucky Jackson/would-be race-car driver, acting as annoying waiter at a romantic dinner that involves his would-be girl and his suave rival, played coolly by Cesare Danova. The timing of the slapstick and the sharp dialogue is pretty clean at this disasterous dinner, rivaling the superb singing-and-strolling sequence earlier, as Ann-Margaret, aka Rusty Martin, leads a randy Lucky to the nearest pool where Lucky will lose all his Vegas winnings down a drain. Overall, the scenes and the songs evoke a variety of moods while on a very tight clock. But again the emphasis is on laughs; many of the songs have highly amusing lyrics, including Ann-Margaret singing in the kitchen while she seems to magically prepare about 5 days' worth of food for her father.
Further notes on the plot: well, it's there, working its way into the film in bite-sized chunks. Elvis and rival scouring the hotspots of Vegas looking for one gal, guess-who, until they bump into what looks like most of Texas, rowdy and proud while partying in Sin City; Elvis finally racing (given the carefree nature of the plot, I wondered if there was even going to be a car race, or would we just have Elvis's car stalling for good, and Ann-Margaret popping out from under the hood with a wrench in one hand, engine parts in the other hand, and a sly grin on her face, while everyone laughed, started dancing, and the words THE END shimmered into view. Don't worry, that doesn't happen). In between the roaming beginning and the hastily-injected finale, we get a lot of muscial wooing, crazy waitering to pay off a bill (the money went down a drain, remember), shots of a sizzling 1964 Las Vegas (wish I coulda bin there), and some laughs.
I'm not about to start binging on musicals or Elvis flicks, but this was a happy change from over-complicated epics with too much sweat, blood, or tears. A simple tale, not necessarily well told, but deliciously lost in the whimsical shuffle.
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