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Rating:  -
I recently bought Girl Happy and saw it for the first time. I have seen most of Elvis' movies, and this one was actually one of the better ones considering the standard Presley formula.
The tunes are pretty good, Elvis is one the beach with pretty girls and the storyline of babysitting their boss' daughter while on vacation in Ft. Lauderdale was neat.
It is a fun movie designed to entertain, and it does just that. And Elvis breaking into a song is more believable since he is the leader of a combo, not a race car driver or a frogman.
Elvis and Shelley Fabares have great on-screen chemistry, nearly as good as he and Ann-Margret from Viva Las Vegas.
Sit back, relax and enjoy two hours of fun in the sun with Elvis, doing the Clam, speeding through downtown Ft. Lauderdale pulling a boat, getting into fights, breaking "into" jail and later escaping dressed as a woman, courtesy of a quick change with help from a stripper!
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This was the start of 3 movies with Shelley Fabares. And Elvis is packing his bags for Fort Lauderdale.
The movie begins with a narrtor talking about Fort Lauderdale, Fl and Chicago, IL.
Then moves to Elvis Presley singing Girl Happy. Rusty Wells (Elvis Presley) is singing in Chicago. After the show, he and his combo are going to Fort Lauderdale. But the boss, Mr. Frank (Harold J. Stone) tries to keep them in Chicago. Until Rusty and his combo show up at his office. Mr. Frank hires Rusty and his combo to go down there and look after his daughter named Valerie (Shelley Fabares).
While down in Fort Lauderdale, Rusty Wells meets a girl named Deena (Mary Ann Mobley). But every time Valerie dispappers, Rusty gets his combo and runs after her and making up fake stories to Deena. Rusty Wells and his combo stay at Valerie's hotel named Seatrift Motel. With rules like, "No boys in rooms." And rules like, "no toys in the pool".
And aslo no loud cooking or nosy radios.
But soon Valerie soon learns from her father that Rusty Welss is down there to look after her. And drinks like crazy. Songs include, Girl Happy, Do not Disturb, The meanest girl in town and puppet on a string.
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This is a "leave your brain at the door" and just have a good time movie. It's not zany or stupid. It's not belly roll laughs, though there are some very funny scenes. Elvis Presley and Shelley Fabares just seem to have a magic about them. It is a VERY good lighthearted romantic comedy. This movie is "take a break" from the stresses of reality and have about a 2 hour entertaining vacation. I think this is my favorite movie of all time (beats out No Time For Sargents and Beach Blanket Bingo). My thought is that if your reading this review you already know about the movie, let me talk about the tape. When I first viewed this VHS tape, I was shocked by the incredible picture clarity. Maybe because I had been watching this movie on a tape that I recorded off the TV, and this purchased version doesn't have the snow or grain type appearance that I was used to. But I think (no scientific data to back this up, just MHO) that these movies (all the MGM Elvis' series of VHS movies) have the clearest, crispest picture I have ever seen from a VHS tape. The picture quality of these VHS tapes rivals that of some DVD's. I am also inclined to think (again no data to support this) that when MGM produced (edited) this tape, they did more than just the usual pan and scan off the original film. When it was "formatted to fit your TV" they (MGM) actually zoomed in on the main aspect of each scene. When Elvis is singing you see an extreme close-up of Elvis, closer than the normal pan and scan aspect ratio would have given. I love seeing Elvis and Shelley fill the entire TV screen. I hope that when MGM releases this movie on DVD they do it in the same format as they did with the Beach Party and Viva Las Vegas movies, where one side is widescreen format (for the 65% of the people who hate full-screen format) and the other side plays full screen format (for the 35% of us who hate wide-screen format). I would love to have this movie on DVD but I flat refuse to buy DVD's that don't play in full-screen format (if I wanted to watch movies in a 10" high window, I could have saved several hundred dollars and bought a 10" high TV.) I would rather see a BIG full screen Elvis than a little tiny Elvis and a lot of beach scenery on either side of the main action.
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This movie needs a widescreen format. Period. Chopping off the left and right edges to fit the TV doesn't cut it with me. Too much of the film is cut away, which makes it practically unwatchable to me. Girl Happy's one of my favorite movies of all time. After all, when you watch a movie end to end and wish there was more of it to watch, doesn't that constitute a great movie? I've probably seen this thing more times than I'd care to admit, but I love it every time I watch it. The songs in it don't have #1 hit followed by #1 hit. So what. The movie dialogue and overall story don't make you wonder why it didn't receive the Oscar for Best Picture. Who cares? After Love Me Tender, Jailhouse Rock, and King Creole, Elvis made some feel good, fluff movies. Guess what? Girl Happy is a fluff movie. You can compare Girl Happy or any other Elvis flick to Citizen Kane or Casablanca, or you can sit there and pout about how Elvis didn't do better songs or better movies in the '60s, and you'll end up being disappointed and make yourself miserable. Nobody wants that. Elvis'movies, starting with GI Blues (or was it Blue Hawaii?) should make you smile. This one does the same. It's got catchy tunes, a cute story, Elvis in some cute comedy scenes, a clever line here and there, yummy girls, and a happy ending. If you like Elvis movies, you'll love Girl Happy. Plain and simple. If you love Girl Happy and want to buy it, wait for it to come out on DVD and get the Widescreen version, or tape it when it appears on TNT or AMC and fast forward past commercials. Seriously, the video version was way too extreme closeups and chops off too much detail in the movie...and when Elvis and Shelly are cut out of some of the scenes in this picture for the sake of the film fitting into a square, it's enough to make you want to spit.
Of all of Elvis' 28 or so fluff movies (he made 33 in all), this one's probably the best.
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there is some really fine stuff in this. Dolores Fullers fine number Do The Clam(Dolores dated Ed Wood), Elvis in drag, and the incredible Shelley Fabares as the Elvis girl(Elvis and James Bond Bond have girls) It is terrible but like all elvis, addictive. Uncle Fester Jackie Coogan, a song that sounds like The Oldest Established in guys and Dolls(The Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce)and some weird tradition called wolf call add to the cult thing. but let me tell you about my favorite moment...at the end, Elvis sings Girl Happy and for twenty glorious, rewindable seconds, Shelley busts. She just dances like Ann Margaret on crack, really good go go crack. Do you know that Mike Farrell of Mash and providence is Married to Shelley. I think he probably proposed after seeing her do these twenty seconds. It is enough to make a grown man cry.
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