Elvis Presley goes to the beach in this musical comedy romp about college coeds on spring break. Elvis gets tasked by a Chicago Mobster to keep tabs on his daughter while she is on spring break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The only qualm I found was that in a movie set at and about the beach and spring break Elvis was always clad in long sleeved, long necked clothing. It was noticeably weird.

Another pretty enjoyable Elvis movie. Good music, good looking girls/women, decent humor, and of course the bad fight scenes. Elvis and his band are tasked by Big Frank to watch over his daughter, played by the very cute Shelley Fabares. Mary Ann Mobley starts out as Elvis's love interest but fades out as he stars to fall for the daughter. There is a scene where Mary Ann and Shelley are both in Elvis's room, one on the patio and the other in the room. It is funny to watch him trying to keep one from seeing the other. There is the Italian gigolo who sets is sights for Shelley and it takes all four of the band members to keep him away and out of the picture. After a riot at a club a whole bunch of kids are arrested and ailed. One turns out to be Shelley. When Elvis finds out he gets a group of guys to tunnel into the jail so he can reach her. He gets in to the women's jail cell only to find that Big Frank has shown up and freed her. The girls are released but before they leave the cell they huddle around Elvis and dress him as a woman so he can leave with them. After talking to her dad Shelley finds out that while Elvis was paid to watch her he was not paid to take her out, kiss her or otherwise get involved with her. So she realizes she loves Elvis as he does her and they apparently will live happily ever after.

Thinly "plotted" Elvis Presley comedy with Shelley Fabares, who reportedly was Elvis' favorite of all his leading gals. Elvis is the front man in a vintage '60s pop group who leaves the snowy city of Chicago along with his band mates for a spring break down in the warm and bikini-busy Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He manages to secure the trip by telling his mobster employer that he'll be sure to keep an eye on his boss' college-aged daughter (Fabares, who's cuter in SPINOUT) while she's also vacationing down there with her girlfriends. Typically zany mishaps ensue, but along the way there are some enjoyable songs... "Girl Happy," which is the best of the bunch, "Do Not Disturb," "Puppet on a String", "Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce", and the latest beach blanket rage, "Do the Clam"! Presley still seems to be pretty game. **1/2 out of ****

Although most of Elvis' movies were set in a world of total happiness and joy they were very good and were especially good when someone is feeling low. Girl Happy has some great songs and it also had a very successful sound-track. The main theme in this film is that a gangster hires a singer ( Elvis ) to look after his daughter on a holiday camp.