People are voting emotionally.

Boring

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

First time watching the king of rock and now I see the charm and Appel the generation before me adore this picture of color, music and fun

"Jumping Jacks" director Norman Taurog's romantic musical comedy "Blue Hawaii" was Elvis's eighth movie, and the second of the nine movies that he helmed with Presley. Taurog was no stranger to comedy, and he had directed some Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis comedies. This lightweight contemporary melodrama, with race relations and class tensions simmering just beneath the surface, casts Elvis as a young man who has completed his tour of military service in the Army. Obviously, nobody can question his patriotism. Clad Gates (Elvis Presley) has been flown home to his parents in Hawaii. Chad's zany mother Sarah Lee Gates (Angela Lansbury of "The Manchurian Candidate") and his father Fred Gates (Roland Winters of "Charlie Chan" franchise) expect Elvis to take control of the business. Unfortunately, they have a laundry list of don'ts that our hero refuses to tolerate. First, his mother wants him to marry a white Anglo Saxon, while Chad has his eyes on a half-breed, part French and part Hawaiian lady named Maile Duval (Joan Blackman of "Kid Galahad"). Sarah doesn't want her son mingling with the island natives, least of all marrying one. Boy is she in for a surprise! Rather than work for his father, Chad goes to work at a travel agency where Maile works. Maile's boss Mr. Chapman (Howard McNear of "Anatomy of a Murder") hires him and then fires him after he starts a brawl in a bar with another tourist, Tucker Garvey (Steve Brodie), and winds up in jail. The rowdy free-for-all roundhouse is the only one of its kind in "Blue Hawaii." Our hero has his hand filled with girls. Not only must be contend with his girlfriend, but also he has been hired as a tour guide to a mature school teacher, Abigail Prentice (Nancy Walters) and three girls. One of the girls is rebellious, suicidal, but definitely attracted to the protagonist, and she gives our hero a hard time. Eventually, Chad brings his mother around to appreciating the natives of Hawaii and he marries Maile in a sumptuous wedding with a beautiful ceremonial barge. "Blue Hawaii" benefits from Charles Lang's gorgeous cinematography and some of the most stunning scenery. Angela Lansbury gives a stand-out performance as Elvis' mother. Altogether, "Blue Hawaii" is an average epic with the star warbling several chart-topping songs.

This may be the best Elvis movie of them all. There are a lot of good songs and music in this film. Elvis comes back home to Hawaii after two years in the army. He does not want to go to work for his dad at the pineapple plantation he runs so he starts working as a tourist guide. His first set of customers are a youngish teacher escorting four teen girls. So you know things get interesting when the underage ones see Elvis. One is so infatuated with him she throws herself at him. Turned down she steals a jeep, crashes it by the beach, runs into the water (I guess to drown herself). Of course Elvis shows up and rescues her. He administers a spanking which straightens out I guess. The main cast are all proved old timey type actors and do a great job. I did find Angela Lansbury's role to grate some because of the poor Southern accent and the fact that she played Elvis's mother but was only ten years older than him at the time. All in all though this is a very nicely done show with a lot of Hawaiians actually getting real acting parts.

Blue Hawaii, the title song of this film, was originally from the score of another Paramount film Waikiki Wedding which starred Bing Crosby in 1937. Bing sold a few records of that one, albeit they were 78s back then, and Elvis nicely revives it and sells a few more. Crosby's film was made to take advantage of a whole lot of publicity he received for a trip to Hawaii. But Paramount as they usually did with his films back they made them on the cheap and Hawaii for Waikiki Wedding was recreated on the back lot.Bing must have been a little jealous and who could have blamed him when Paramount did this film completely on location in Hawaii for the King. And Elvis got to go back to Hawaii for another film in Paradise, Hawaiian Style. Elvis got a whole lot of musical numbers here including the title tune which he sings over the opening credits. He does a rockabilly version of the French song Alouette and with different lyrics, the Mexican love ballad, La Paloma. And he borrows a hit from Andy Williams when he reprises the Hawaiian Wedding Song. Of course no film set in Hawaii is complete without Aloha Oe. But the big song from this film is one of Presley's greatest Can't Help Falling In Love With You. He sings it during a scene for a birthday party for Joan Blackman's grandmother. It's sort of done in a throwaway manner like the producer's didn't think it would be the big number in the film. It might surprise Presley fans that this blockbuster hit was also recorded by another RCA Victor artist named Perry Como for one of his albums. Perry does a nice job with it, but it ain't a patch on the King's version.Elvis is a rich young kid who'd like very much to get out from under Mom and Dad and prove himself. He's even done a hitch in the army, but that doesn't help. Parents are played by Roland Winters and Angela Lansbury.Angela Lansbury recounted a story where she and her husband had dinner with Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis when they were casting Blue Hawaii. She said Elvis was a nice, polite young man who barely said three words during the dinner. The talk was all from Colonel Tom who was making all kinds of offers to the future Jessica Fletcher to be in this film. Angela's career was somewhat in a dry spell, she hadn't made The Manchurian Candidate yet or appeared on Broadway in Mame. So she was quite willing to appear.I gained some insight into how Colonel Parker handled Elvis with that story. If you look at the cast and even the behind the camera credits of his films, you'll see them populated with a whole lot of Hollywood veterans. I'll bet there were many such dinners during Elvis's film career.To be sure Presley was certainly the Colonel's meal ticket. But I would have to say that he made every effort to see that Elvis and his films were given the best possible production values. I think that's why the King had a long sustained film career until public tastes change which they inevitably do. Also musicals, even Elvis's became too cost prohibitive to produce any more.Blue Hawaii marks the height of Presley's singing and film career. The Beatles hadn't come on the scene yet, the King was still ruling the roost on the record charts and his films were grossing big box office. And unless your Bing Crosby and feel a twinge of jealousy that his Hawaii film was done on the cheap, you'll like Blue Hawaii very much. It's nice entertainment from a great entertainer.