Review of Easy Come, Easy Go (1947) by Jenna I — 08 Sep 2013
Elvis movies are one of my guilty pleasures. This one however is definitely one of the King's weaker outings. There a few good songs and a couple of really awful ones ('Yoga is as Yoga Does' is particularly bad.
) There's a few laughs in Elvis meeting hippies in an artist colony but Elsa Lanchester (The Bride of Frankenstein) is just embarrassing as the yoga instructor. It's hard to believe this movie was made in the same year The Beatles made Sgt.
Peppers. The term 'beatniks' refers to people in the 50s and early 60s surely yet here the alternate types that Elvis looks and feels so awkward around are referred to by that term, a sign of how out of touch the writers were at the time.
Elvis' creative comeback with the 1968 TV special and the 'From Elvis in Memphis' album were just around the corner but here he's still on the predictable mid-60s conveyor belt of cheese.
This review of Easy Come, Easy Go (1947) was written by Jenna I on 08 Sep 2013.
Easy Come, Easy Go has generally received mixed reviews.
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