Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

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Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

SanteeFats This Elvis film is a cut above the usual ones. There is more acting depth, better writing, good humor, and of course the music is fine. Elvis swaps place with a conveniently met ski instructor while on his way away from his rich father to prove himself. Will Hutchins plays the now rich oil son and is really funny. Shelley Fabares is the love interest who starts out as a gold digger looking for a rich husband. She finds one in Bill Bixby who plays a smarmy, smug, rich butt. He proposes but by this time she has fallen for Elvis, naturally. Elvis's father is played by long time actor James Gregory and he is his usual professional actor. As with most Elvis movies, especially those with beach scenes, there are lots of T and A and bikinis.

wes-connors Elvis Presley plays a wealthy racing enthusiast who switches places with poor water skiing instructor. He wants to make it "on his own" and see if he can attract women without money. As the film opens, Elvis trades places with pal Will Hutchins, who plays the lowly ski instructor; and, they sing the duet "Who Needs Money". Watch it - the unprofessional singer, Mr. Hutchins, sings the song as well as Elvis! Hutchins, Shelley Fabares, and Bill Bixby are okay; Elvis is the liability in his own movie. Hutchins, Fabares, and Bixby might have made a better film without "The King".Yet, it's not the worst film in history. The other players are entertaining, and the movie rolls along until, arguably, the scene with Elvis and the children singing "Confidence" in the playground; it's the most embarrassing song in the film. I do like "You Don't Know Me" and the title "Clambake" sounds good in the mix they released on record, but the movie is half-baked. ** Clambake (10/18/67) Arthur H. Nadel ~ Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Will Hutchins

kuringai-1 An awful, idiotic Elvis movie. The acting is wooden, and the only laughs that come are unintentional.For example: we're in the middle of a bland musical number, when suddenly the screen is tipped upside down. It stays like that for a while, then goes back to normal. None of this happens for a reason.Even my drunk cousin was confused by this.The story was nice and original when it was The Prince and the Pauper, but by the time Clambake was made, it had been done to death.As for Elvis' acting: either he based his performance on an ironing board, or he was drunk.I personally hope for the latter.You could replace his character with a plank with a mopey face and you wouldn't be able to tell the difference.Avoid.

bkoganbing By 1967 with the Beatles leading the British invasion of new musical performers, the King of the Sixties was in decline at least in his film career.You can tell with Clambake. The plot is essentially the same story as Blue Hawaii and not half as good. Once again he's the son of a rich man who wants to make it on his own. This time though he changes places with happy-go-lucky water skiing instructor Will Hutchins. They're both headed to the same Florida resort now with each other's identities.Well of course being he's the King, he does find a girl who falls for him without knowing he's a millionaire. For the rest of it you'll have to buy or rent the film.He does have some nice songs. Two songs Who Needs Money is the kind of stuff Bing Crosby used to do in a lot of his films, the upbeat philosophical number and the song Confidence is a ripoff of Frank Sinatra's High Hopes. But Elvis does well by both.He also reprises a song he missed the first time around. You might remember that the original artist who sang the song, Jerry Vale, got to reprise it in Goodfellas. You Don't Know Me sold a whole lot of platters for Mr. Vale, but the big seller of that song was done by Ray Charles. Presley does very well by it, a pity it did not become a big hit for him like it was for the other two.As usual Elvis gets a nice supporting cast and a pretty leading lady in Shelley Fabares. In the cast we have Bill Bixby, Will Hutchins, Gary Merrill and James Gregory all of whom do a good job. Still it's all been done before.