Movie Notes: Girls! Girls! Girls!
= 1 star
Starring Elvis Presley, Stella Stevens, Laurel Dodge
Directed by Norman Taurog
Synopsis
Hawaiian fisherman Ross Carpenter (Elvis Presley) must choose between two women, Robin (Stella Stevens) and Laurel (Laurel Dodge).
The Good
- One good Elvis number, the appropriately titled Return To Sender.
The Bad
- The movie takes place in Hawaii, but it may as well have been Mississippi. Many indoor scenes are surely staged on some Hollywood set. That’s a shame, especially after Blue Hawaii where many nostalgic Hawaiian locations were used to good effect. Girls! Girls! Girls! has the Ala Wai yacht harbor, a tuna cannery, and ocean.
- Songs about shrimping.
- It provides the minimum amount of plot between musical numbers to create a movie. Unfortunately the musical numbers are too weak to hold everything together.
Conclusion
Skip it. I rented this flick to hear Elvis sing several classic rock numbers and see some cool Hawaiian locations. I got neither. Rent Blue Hawaii instead.
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