It's been a while since I watched an "R" rated movie. I'd kind of forgotten what they're like. BUBBA HO-TEP, the movie about Elvis Prestly and how he ends up living in an east Texas nursing home fighting a soul-sucking mummy, is really kinda dirty. And it's not just the constant bad language from Elvis and his buddy JFK (on the right in the picture) it's also the crude situations and gross nursing-home humor.
But it's funny, and really a delight to see Elvis walking triumphantly down the corridors of a home all jupsuited up and swinging that walker like there's no tomorrow. Which there isn't. These guys are old and soul-sucking Egyptian mummies are pretty tough to kill.
Bruce Campbell is really great in this movie. Ossie Davis is magnificent as the old man who insists that Lindon Johnson had a bag of sand put into his brain and threw him in this nursing home to rot after that unpleasantness in Dallas. When Elvis points out that he's actually black, Jack points out that it's a perfect disguise. Cracks me up.
Also in this film, a giant bug puppet, a klepto grandma, infections in unpleasant places, a boot-wearing mummy, Elvis as a man who sees visions, one Marilyn Monroe reference, a medicine bag w/ powerful mojo, and lots and lots of karate moves.
I liked it a lot but it is definately not wholesome. But, were Elvis alive, he probably wouldn't be either.
I didn't get into this flick. It's humor might have entertained my students. The only thing I consistently liked was Ossie Davis as JFK. Why was this rated R?
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