If you know the Elvis story and can get past Dick Cavett and Tony Curtis, this movie is entertaining and very funny. Both Elvis and Nixon are caricatures. A movie is a movie! I was drafted in 1969 at age 23 and could see both Elvis' and Jane Fonda's points of view. I think most baby boomers loved their country while hating the Vietnam War. It is a bit of an anachronism that at one point Fonda is referred to as "Hanoi Jane." Elvis met Nixon on December 21, 1970, while Jane did not go to Vietnam until July, 1972. I bought Elvis records as a kid and do not like to see him made fun of. The only one of the narrators who gives Elvis his due respect is Wayne Newton.

This movie kicks butt! Believe it or not, it may be the closest thing to portraying a `real' Elvis than has ever been made. And while Peters doesn't strike one as particularly Elvis-ish at first glance, he certainly nails the mannerisms cold and even DOES look creepily like the King in several shots (just check out the sly grin he flashes after handing out Christmas gifts to the Memphis Mob boys).Let's face it. Elvis was one strange, eccentric dude.I guess that's what makes him so fascinating. To know that about him is to love him. And to be a fan means that you know how blown out of proportion his image has become. The closest representation we have of the actual man existing beneath the cape is the two painstakingly researched Gurlaick (yeah, I think I misspelled it) bios. But this movie, however, comes awfully close I think. And, as an added bonus, it's definitely light-hearted and fun, which was certainly a large part of Elvis' character.The main drawback is certainly not the MINOR liberties taken with the facts per se (again - unbelievable - this story seems to be mostly true!), but the inclusion of the hippy run-ins on Sunset in LA. The flower kids in the record/head shop are sooooo stereotypical, and the one who has the sit-down with E in coffee shop has nothing but afterschool-special-you're-my-inpiration-type pap to lay on us. The only consolation is that Our Man doesn't fulfill his request to show up at his love-in protest or whatever (my boy, my boy!) These scenes I believe were well intended in their function to demonstrate how out of touch Elvis was with the real world, and could've been a great comedic culture clash but they, alas, are full of corn.

Boys was this lame. Now, I admit I am an Elvis fan, and kinda like Nixon the foreign policy guy-but also I enjoy the Johnny Bravo-style Elvis sendups and like-minded Tricky Dick satires you see( as in the Nixon-voice as commentator on Imus)-No problem here.But this...this was pretty poor as far as it went. They guy doing Nixon looked more like a bad Ed Sullivan, and the guy doing Elvis-was loads more like DON Johnson's stab at the King from that really bad '81 TV flick DJ did back when. Watching this was like seeing an over-extended Saturday Night Live skit on the meeting, stretched out to 90 minutes or more.Somehow I don't that Elvis was quite That cloddish, and Nixon, had a little more on the ball than THAT. Now, John and Yoko showing up at the white-house from their Bed-in for Peace days-now THAT woulda been funny...** outta ****, LAME.

for those of us who lived in the 50"s 60"s. Great humor, I can remember the growing pains of Elvis.. The viet nam war and that hippy stuff. voting for Nixon and living through the days of coming home to America after Nam..