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Last Friday, I saw Army of Darkness in a theatre. That one always makes me laugh. Tonight, I took in Bubba Ho-Tep at The Art in Champaign. It's a shame that this isn't getting more exposure and mainstream showings.
For those of you in the dark, Bubba Ho-Tep is a story about Elvis Presley and Jack Kennedy doing battle with a mummy in an East Texas nursing home. Of course that doesn't make any sense... until you learn that Elvis traded lives with an impersonator after tiring of the rigors of fame. Unfortunately all proof that this elderly man is the real Elvis was destroyed in a spectacular barbecue accident and everyone assumes he's crazy. The poor guy's locked up in a retirement home with a black man claiming to be JFK and a mummy with a penchant for sucking residents' souls out of them through the most unholy of orfices. Mummies, like zombies, suffer from a lack of mobility that's the natural result of being dead. However, old people are similarly afflicted, so the mummy has an easy feeding ground and a constant supply of souls. Only two men have the insight, courage, and dare I say the gumption to take on the beast. You can figure out who they are.
I keep thinking of insightful things to say about the subtle humor of the movie and classy avoidance of obvious jokes, but I'm not thinking of anything that Roger Ebert didn't cover in his Bubba Ho-Yep review, so go read what he said and imagine me regurgitating it.
I'll be waiting for the DVD.