What do you get when you combine Elvis with a strange growth on his pecker, John F. Kennedy, who has had his brain removed, replaced by sand, had his skin dyed black, and one redneck mummy living off the elderly? Why, you get Bubba Ho-Tep!

As a big fan of other Bruce Campbell movies, when I first heard of Bubba Ho-Tep, I had some expectations. One, it was low budget. Two, it was going to be funny. This movie was right on the money with number one. The effects, purposely bad for the sake of humor, were pretty low budget. You start laughing the moment you see the scarab running around, or as Elvis puts it "One big mother cockroach". The movie also hits on number two, but Evil Dead or Army of Darkness is this not.

Bruce Cambell plays Elvis, or rather Elvis playing an impersonator playing Elvis. Follow me? It seems Elvis never really died. Late in his career, he traded places with an impersonator in order to live life the way he wanted. Unfortunatly, a stage accident with impersonating himself, left him in a coma for 20 years. Now elderly, barely able to walk, and with a growth on his pecker, Elvis is determined to fight the evil Bubba Ho-Tep and protect the last home he has.

What results is a funny, yet somewhat unfulling story. This is where the movie falls short. It starts in the begining, hitting you with all the big jokes, setting up some of the larger one, then kind of drags on. As funny as Bruce Campbell is, there just isnt enough story to back up his character. The entire movie is based off a short story of the same name, and it is easy to see why this movie flounders. They are almost forcing it along during some parts, and parts could have been edited out. But this movie is not long to begin with, and once you start cutting, you would get about an hour long movie. That may have been best, since that seems the correct length to tell a story of this size.

Still, despite its flaws, it still worth a rental. The begining will have to laughing pretty good, and even the jokes near the end can get you going, though they get thin at the end. Overall, I would give it a C+.