Bubba Ho-Tep

Pros: Bruce Cambell!
Cons: I didn't see this sooner.

Bubba Ho-Tep is a drama... no wait.. Bubba Ho-Tep is a dark comedy...umm no that's not quite right either.... Bubba Ho-Tep is a horror flick.... Oh to hell with it. It's one of Bruce Campbell's warped, off-the-wall, ...

Pros: Bruce Campbell, Ossie Davis, Comedy
Cons: Slow moving and limited appeal

Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) Bruce Campbell has always been a favorite of mine after I saw his collaborations with Sam Raimi: Evil Dead and Army of ...

Pros: Campbell, Davis, absurd unique plot.
Cons: More drama than horror or comedy. Unimaginative ending.

I suppose if you stumbled into a midnight showing of BUBBA HO-TEP, you could probably get very excited about its audacity, sincerity and cult movie wackiness. It isn’t funny enough to be embraced as a great dark comedy. It isn’t scary enough ...

Pros: funny, witty, irreverent, with effective action
Cons: low-budget film with low-budget effects, campy premise and a style not for everyone

When I first heard that a film with the title, Bubba Ho-Tep, was slated for release, my mouth began to water. I'm a film junkie, pure and simple. I see hundreds of first-run movies a year, most of which I yawn through. I'm not stuck-up (even a ...

Pros: Campbell and Davis give great performances. Funny/campy. Fun in its way.
Cons: It could have been something more

Elvis traded places with an Elvis impersonator and now lives a quiet life in an East Texas nursing home surrounded by decrepit old folks. He worries about life and the meaning of it all and about that growth on his penis which may be cancer. Elvis (Bruce ...

Pros: Entertaining in a campy way
Cons: Dumb in a campy way

Sometimes, I know you do this. You go to the video store, and tell yourself that you want to rent something intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking. Something with gravitas, meaning; a sense of purpose. The type of movie that compels you to ...

Pros: clever plot and great acting
Cons: The King don't wanna hear no bad news, baby.

When it comes to B-movies, Bruce Campbell is on the A-list. After debuting in Sam Raimi's ultra-low budget Evil Dead and playing the chainsaw-wielding hero Ash through two sequels, Campbell gained a cult following that has made him one of the ...

Pros: Occasional sublime moments were far too few and far between.
Cons: Forcing a sweet flavor on a vinegar premise.

How did it come to this? All my life, it seems, I have been building in my obsessively private video fetishism to this point: a movie featuring Bruce Campbell about an AARP-aged Elvis teaming up with an artificially dyed JFK to battle an evil Egyptian ...

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Some stories are so strange that you just have to hear them. This movie is one of them. Imagine a nursing home where both Elvis Presley and a black JFK reside. Add to that a mummy who’s sucking the souls out of the other residents. It’s up to Elvis ...

Pros: Funny, with its own kind of charm
Cons: Could deliver more horror

(Reposted from "In Theaters"--feel free to ignore if you read it this time last year) Bubba Ho-Tep is a movie that some people will love and some people will hate but one that, it seems to me, most open-minded people should find entertaining on some ...

Pros: Campbell and Davis performances,funny,generally good movie
Cons: some humour,effects aren't perfect

Being a big fan of both Bruce Campbell and Don Coscarelli, I'm actually pretty disgusted with myself for only seeing this movie, made in 2002, in 2005. Sure I can blame it on them taking this long to bring out a DVD in the UK, but a movie that I want to ...

Pros: A lot of slapstick, silly, unlikely, outrageous moments.
Cons: Periods between the humor that drag forever, making the movie seem longer than ninety-some minutes.

It just catches my eye(what else can I say?) when I am rummaging through the horror section of the local rentals store and encounter a movie such as "Bubba Ho-Tep." Elvis meets a black JFK and the two will be battling an ancient mummy. Hmmm. What a ...

Pros: Great performances, interesting direction, lots of humor and pathos...and what a DVD!
Cons: Definitely a black sheep that can't be classified as a true horror film.

The time has come for a quirky, intelligent, and well-crafted horror-comedy-drama amalgam to arise from the tired world of cinema, and leave it to the most bizarre filmmaker ever to come out of Tripoli, Libya, one of the most revered African-American ...

Pros: BRUCE CAMPBELL, acting, funny, good plot, some directing, horror, special effects
Cons: slow, could be boring, some direction, could've been funnier

Bruce Campbell is my favourite actor, even though I haven’t seen many of his movies. In fact I had only seen him in the 3 Evil Dead movies before I watched this. I especially loved him in Army of Darkness, one of my favourite movies. I decided to see ...

Pros: One heck of a fun time.
Cons: Slow in spots, but great overall.

Don Coscarelli is one of the most creative minds working in film today. And that alone explains why so few studios will touch anything he makes. Beginning with PHANTASM (which has a huge fan base) and moving on to THE BEASTMASTER, Coscarelli has created ...