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Summary: Elvis's Best Movie?
Review: Finally there's an on-screen Elvis who actually *looks* like he lives in the 1960s. This movie features the side-burned, long-haired Elvis we know from the seventies -- but in peak form. There's good on-screen chemistry between him and Mary Tyler Moore and a terrific cameo by Ed Asner as a neighborhood cop. The movie makes an admirable attempt to speak to social issues of the day, which is a real surprise considering that in most of Elvis's previous roles he played race-car drivers. All in all a fun movie, and a real departure from Elvis's usual on-screen fare.
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Summary: What A Stinkaroo!!
Review: Hey, these juvenile, formulaic Elvis movies must have reached the nadir on this bomb. While all of his movies were terrible, "Change of Habit" might be the worst of a very bad bunch.
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Summary: Rare role for Elvis
Review: I caught this movie on American Movie Classics when they were having an Elvis movie marathon. I have to say this is one and very few GOOD Elvis movies.In this movie, he's not some struggling musician with 40-year old women helping him along. I think if he wasn't a puppet with the strings being held by a certain manager, he could've made more movies like this one. True, he does sing a little, but it's a hobby for his character. I don't think I can say any more than what the other reviewers have said, but take my word for it, this is one and very few good Elvis movies.
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Summary: A different,but more mature Elvis movie
Review: I like "Change of Habit",because,it has good songs and Elvis takes a more serious role,which he didn't often take in most of his movies.It's definately more with the times than his other movies.Highly recommended.
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Summary: Elvis in Change of Habit
Review: If you love Elvis movies, you'll love this one as well! There isn't much singing in it, so this movie has a more realistic feel to the story than most of Elvis' movies. This movie proves that you don't have to show explicit sexual scenes to have a thought provoking story.
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Summary: Ohhhh, Mr. Presley!
Review: In the ghetto with Elvis, his mutton chops in full bloom, as hip and happening Dr. John Carpenter (!), befriending a trio of nuns (Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot) on a plainclothes mission for God. Before taking their vows, the novices have been ordered to take a walk on the wild side, late-Sixties style, with all the trite social commentary and mild sexual titillation a G rating will allow. As comely, full-lipped Sister Michelle, MTM joins the short list (with Julie Andrews and Sally Field) for the title of Hollywood's Most Wholesomely Hot Sister. Naturally, El is smitten with her and can't figure out why she would choose a life of poverty, chastity and obedience over his funky world of howlingly cartoonish ethnic stereotypes, perverts and other fun types. After this one, Elvis had the good sense to rip up his Screen Actors Guild card. Everybody say "Amen!" But seriously, it's a shame El's last feature film came a cropper. Buoyed by the success of his 1968 comeback special, the Big E looked fitter, less stoned and more handsome (sideburns notwithstanding) than he had in years. Elvis reportedly valued credibility as a serious actor over his natural gifts as a singer/entertainer. Instead of giving him a challenging role worthy of his born-again confidence, "Change of Habit" remains infamous for miscasting Elvis at a time when he was primed and ready to prove himself as an actor. Too bad. The flick IS watchable for its gallery of familiar faces, among them porcine character actor Robert Emhardt (immortal as blustery businessman Malcolm Tucker in "The Andy Griffith Show's" most essential episode, "Man in a Hurry") hamming it up as a crime kingpin. And the cop that looks remarkably like Ed Asner really is him. How both Asner and MTM managed to escape from the abyss of one of Elvis's most misguided films, only to achieve nirvana in a certain Minneapolis newsroom just a year later, is impressive and miraculous. This being one of Presley's "serious" movies, the soundtrack is lean, but there is one bizarro musical highlight: a piano-pounding Elvis jamming with MTM, self-consciously fingering a classical guitar like a doe caught in the spotlight, on what sounds like "Lawdy Miss Clawdy." It's a mind-blowingly surreal scene every card-carrying pop culture junkie should see once. And once is definitely enough.
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Summary: How Times Have Changed
Review: Indeed. I guess you have to look at this movie in this context. It looks dated, kind of like those really bad TV shows of the late 60s and early 70s. The dialogue is terrible, laughable at some points - "she was raped, even against her will" - give me a break! Elvis looks good, before he blimped out on cheeseburgers and drugs and Mary Tyler Moore is her usual annoying self - its said they didnt get on - not unsurprisingly. The supporting cast is not too bad - good to see Ed Asner in an early role. This is one of Elvis lost films, so to speak, in that if you are not a fan then you would not really know about it. Worth a look. The DVD is good quality as is the VHS. The songs are pretty duff but whats new? It looks like he was trying to get his movie career back on track but was perhaps side tracked by live performances.
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Summary: This movie should get the credit it deserves!
Review: Many people rate this movie based on how it stacks up to other Elvis movies. Well this is not an Elvis movie. This is a really well written, well acted movie which happens to have Elvis in it. I think this movie shows that Elvis could act, but let's not forget that other people were in this movie as well. I find Mary Tyler Moore a perfect match for the role of the love interest/nun in this movie. Even she herself has said that she didn't think she was right for the part, but I disagree. This comedy/drama has all the right substance for a GOOD movie and if you don't get what the movie is about, that just too bad!
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Summary: one of the best
Review: Mary-Tyler Moore played an excellent role in this fab fun movie. One of Elvis' best films.
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Summary: Great
Review: Simply the best acting work he did. A movie that was "happening" for the time. A slice of inner-city history with a sound track that you can tell Elvis was really getting into. These songs are not just fillers for a hurried album. A must have!
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