Palaest recommended

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

hallmark-48592 Well editing missed this one.....Elvis is clearly "excited" during The Walls Have ears. The drunk that he save Laurel from is the same teen mechanic he fights in Loving You. The little Chinese girls are the sisters of the little girl who played Sue Lin in It Happened at the Worlds Fair. It just seems the same script with minor changes and recycling cast from other movies. The song Return to Sender is the best part of the movie as Elvis is trying his new Jackie Wilson moves.

Wuchak Released in 1962, "Girls! Girls! Girls" stars Elvis as a Hawaiian fishing guide/sailor who tries to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built, after his employer decides to retire to Arizona. Meanwhile he's caught between two women: An insensitive club singer (Stella Stevens) and a sweet rich girl who pretends to be working class (Laurel Goodwin).As my title blurb says, this is a run-of-the-mill Elvis flick, but it's somewhat effective simply because it's essentially a serious drama situated amongst the Hawaiian boating/fishing industry. Of course, Presley performs a song every 7-12 minutes. Stevens' role is rather small so the focus is on the protagonist's romance with the secretly rich girl. Speaking of whom, two years later Goodwin played Yeoman Colt on the original (rejected) pilot episode of Star Trek, which was reworked into the two-part episode "The Menagerie," premiering in November, 1966.In a scene near the end where Elvis is rescuing the girl, there's a boat crash where a sailboat runs into a small motorboat. The stunt people (or actors) in the motorboat get hit by the sailboat and somewhat pushed under. Either the movie was so low budget that re-filming was out of the question or the filmmakers simply left it in because they knew it would get a reaction out of audience, some of whom may not be movie-savvy and assumed it was Elvis in the boat, which makes it all the more interesting.The movie runs 106 minutes and was shot in Hawaii.GRADE: C

beauzee while sailor Elvis works for a jerk to save up for his own boat he must dodge three beautiful GIRLS! editing out about 5 songs would have really helped > though in early 1962 Elvis was still engaged in his art and his voice on the soundtrack is rather astonishing > he can elevate weak plot tunes and when he gets his chops around something nice...yer lookin' fer trouble, baby! the title song (a borderline flop for the great Coasters), plus the rockin' RETURN TO SENDER, I DON'T WANT TO BE TIED and the unusual seafarin' uptempo THANKS TO THE ROLLING SEA; and more than a few soulful ballads, he makes us forget some forgettable draggy parts on screen and the flat mix on record.I think he does some of best dramatic acting in scenes with the girls, Stella Stevens (she sings too many songs, too!) and a very under-appreciated actress, Laurel Goodwin. Elvis and Laurel spend the night with friends near the beach and a storm brews. She finally demands to know where she stands. "I don't want to be kept" is the response, deeply nuanced, a young man whose main goal is professional but knows his passion, too. I cannot think of any actor who could pull that off better.rather lame plot resolution, but what else is/was new in Elvis movie making land? INTERESTING NOTE: many excellent tracks were not used or deleted. now "out there" on CD!

moosekarloff "Girls Girls Girls" is an early entry in the cavalcade of fomulaic nonsense that serves as Elvis Presley's filmography, a trifle that reveals the usual design features of his routinely drecky movies.There's Elvis playing the ambitious, yet happy-go-lucky rake on the make, a sorta hybrid of Danny Fisher ("King Creole") and Lucky Jackson ("Viva Las Vegas"). In this one, Elvis typically weasels his way into singing at a nightclub so that he can afford to buy a fishing boat. In other films, it's the same old take, only in other instances he's looking to open a nightclub, buy an engine for his race car, etc. This film sets up the tired, hackneyed plot devices used ad nauseaum by his producers for the following five or six years.As is common in an Elvis flick, the screenplay is juvenile and moronic, complete with confrontational scenes, childish interaction with his leading ladies, friction with an antagonistic foil (in this case Jeremy Slate) and the presence of either the goony sidekick or paternal well-wisher (Robert Strauss fits that bill in his cultural abortion, as the nightclub owner). Add a score that has maybe two or three decent songs ("Return To Sender" is the stand out tune) and the rest just padded junk, and sunny carefree locals, and you have the makings of the standard EV singing travelogue.What I find interesting is that the Elvis character in his post-military films is always resolving issues with his fists, assaulting someone or other for the sake of injecting a tad of action in the rather lame proceedings. The stunt doubles used for E in the matching shots are invariably unconvincing. His characters also usually display a condescending or patronizing antipathy towards his love interest, who always comes around to E's rather bumptious attempts at courtship in the final reel.Also noteworthy in E's flicks is the constant use of back projection. This is a wan approach at making "motion pictures," in that the camera doesn't move, but the background does. Maybe this is because Presley didn't move very well, and the directors didn't want their star getting vertigo and stumbling around, hurting himself, damaging the set, etc. by doing anything physically ambitious.These aspects are seen constantly in "Girls Girls Girls," which makes it quite typical of this sub-genre. In fact, as it's early on in the cycle, it's the blueprint for much worse films to follow, and since a modicum of effort was expended on this film, an aspect increasingly absent in later Presley flicks, this one is a solid 2-star. Keep in mind that by the time Presley is making "Harum Scarum" three years later, the Elvis picture melts down to a typical 1-star status."Girls Girls Girls" is at least watchable, which is more than you can say about 75% of the crap that appears on TV these days.