ELVIS: CHANGE OF HABIT!(1969)
The very funny Mary Tyler Moore is in this! K, that's
it! No other redeeming factor here! lol, Ok, truthfully,
I don't care much for this movie. I find it very preachy,
and it tries very hard to be socially correct, like driving
a tack with a sledge hammer!!!
Only two songs here, Rubberneckin' and the title
song, neither of which are very good! If this had
humor in it, it could have been a great movie, as
Mary is a very funny girl and Elvis can be when
given the correct vehicle! But this is played pretty
straight all the way through it! Also, the ending
is very unsatisfying!! C
From another reviewer at Amazon:
Elvis tried something different in his final narrative
movie...but the results are oddly similar to his usual
'60s formula. Here the King plays a doctor working
in an inner-city free clinic, playing host to three
Catholic nurses (who are really nuns incognito).
Elvis gets hung up on one of the nuns, played by
Mary Tyler Moore; she seems a lot closer to The
Dick Van Dyke Show than the Vatican. The songs
are sparse--"Rubberneckin'" gets a workout in one
of those awful stilted hootenannies so prevalent
in Elvis pictures. The flower-power ambience is
more interesting than the story; the film features
Mod Squad-style attempts at racial politics, a
sit-down protest, and a weird sequence involving
"rage reduction" to cure an autistic child. Elvis
has good scenes and indifferent ones, but he
looks fantastic (this is just after the great
"comeback"), and he dresses like no other
doctor before or since. --Robert Horton