Fun in Acapulco | 
| Director: Richard Thorpe
Actors: Elvis Presley, Ursula Andress, Elsa Cardenas, Paul Lukas, Larry Domasin
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 9289
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.1 x 0.6
MPN: D6374634D
UPC: 097363746348
EAN: 0097363746348
ASIN: B00007ELFB
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1963
Release Date: January 7, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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In 1963 Elvis could still be energized by the music in his movies, and the production values hadn't yet descended to budget-crunching level. Thus the breezy pleasure of Fun in Acapulco, which sees the pelvis-swinger coming to life for a rousing "Bossa Nova Baby" and a clutch of faux-Mexican tunes. Nice scenery of the fabled resort, but the movie has a strange disconnect (which becomes weirdly fascinating if you keep track of it): Elvis himself is limited to standing and singing in front of rear-projection Mexican vistas, while his hard-working double bicycles down streets, strides across beaches, etc. The newly hot Ursula Andress keeps Elvis and his double company. Elvis's jobs are among his craziest movie gigs: he begins as a deckhand, is hired as a nightclub entertainer/lifeguard, but is revealed to be a trapeze artist in his former life. By the end, of course, he is also a cliff diver. --Robert Horton
Product Description
A SHAKEN TRAPEZE ARTIST TURNS CLIFF DRIVER WHILE WORKING AS A SINGER/LIFEGUARD AT A MEXICAN HOTEL.
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It was a travel log for me. October 27, 2008
John W. Murphy (Detroit Michigan)
The movie was made in around 1963 and based on it our family drove to Acapolco 1965. No deep drama of course but very light, and fun to watch.
 Fun in Alcapulco September 2, 2008
Glenda B. Bryan
I enjoyed this movie very much because I am a fan of Elvis and I enjoy the old movies. This is one of my favorites of his.
GREAT VISUALS, GREAT SONGS , TIGHT SCRIPT October 2, 2007
SALOON SINGER
I've always liked this film. Since my family didn't have money to travel, Elvis' 'travelogues' as he contemptously referred to them, were a welcome change of scenery when I was in my early teens and these films were first shown on network TV. Elvis was cool, he was in some of the most beautiful locales in the world, surrounded by beautiful women but otherwise he had a hospitality kind of job. Any guy could imagine being Elvis and having his looks and talent. In a perfect world, Elvis would have had a multi-faceted career that reflected his talent. He would have scored in dramatic roles, recorded great interpretations of R&B standards as well as superior romantic ballads in addition to doing these 'travelogues.' As a savvy business man, he could have made canny investments in resort hotels and travel services which this type of film would have promoted. Sort of like Jimmy Buffett does today.
Great Elvis Movie July 29, 2007
Jesse A. Turney (Huntsville, TX United States)
This is a great Elvis movie. The singing is awesome and the cliff diving brings an edge to the movie. not your typical fall in love with the girl and sing to her all the time.
 Not Really Good...But Definitely Not the Worst April 9, 2007
The JuRK (Our Vast, Cultural Desert)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I recently watched this movie with my young niece and nephew. They like Elvis but most of his movies are pretty hard to take. To keep them occupied, I told them that Elvis never left Hollywood to make this movie so they needed to spot the real Elvis shots and the other location shots that featured a double. It worked. Between songs, they had fun picking out the real locations from the bad rear-projection shots of Elvis.
"Bossa Nova Baby" is the only real song worth anything (like "Return to Sender" was the only real song in GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS!). The rest all sound like bad Mexican tunes about bulls or bullfighters. Ursula Andress is hot but she's a long way away from Honey Rider in DR. NO.
The best of Elvis's post-Army movies was VIVA LAS VEGAS and the worst--and there are a lot of them--would be HARUM SCARUM. FUN IN ACAPULCO would fall directly in the middle.
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