Bubba Hotep

[poliphilo]

So Elvis and JFK are holed up in this rest home in Texas and there's an undead Egyptian mummy on the loose and it's sucking people's souls.

Actually, it's a serious movie. It's about growing old and how you don't have to die before you die- if you get my drift.

I've got a couple of reservations; there's a miasma of Cuckoo's Nesty misogyny hanging about the rest home corridors; and it's all kinda slow. But maybe the last is a virtue in this age of low-attention-span actioners.

Otherwise it's funny and smart and scary. What more do you want? It's like Buffy with a couple of old codgers in place of the Scoobies.

Bruce Campbell (unrecognisable in sideburns and prosthetic chin) is great as grouchy Elvis and Ossie Davis is a charmer. What timing he has ! I guess it must have been one of his very last roles (if not the last.) RIP Ossie!

They miss one trick. They don't get Campbell to sing.

Comments

[saskia139.livejournal.com]

Thanks for recognizing the theme of this movie! I saw it on the recommendation of a lot of twentysomethings, and I loved it, but wondered how they missed the fact that it was not merely a thigh-slapping gutbuster comedy, haw haw haw, but a serious movie about old age and how society doesn't take its elders seriously. I concluded that they were simply Too Young to Get It. *g*

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I kinda envy their inability to get it. How nice to be young and know that you're going to live (in perfect health) for ever!