ELVIS: FUN IN ACAPULCO!(1963):
Again, this is not a very deep movie, though Elvis
does play a former circus acrobat who is trying to
recover after a terrible accident by running off
to Acapulco to find himself! Nice scenery, a few
good laughs, but not much in the way of music!
Decent enough movie, but not really a great movie!
It does have a couple of great actors in Ursula
Andress and Alejandro Rey! C+
From another reviewer at Amazon:
In 1963 Elvis could still be energized by the music
in his movies, and the production values hadn't yet
descended to budget-crunching level. Thus the
breezy pleasure of Fun in Acapulco, which sees
the pelvis-swinger coming to life for a rousing
"Bossa Nova Baby" and a clutch of faux-Mexican
tunes. Nice scenery of the fabled resort, but the
movie has a strange disconnect (which becomes
weirdly fascinating if you keep track of it): Elvis
himself is limited to standing and singing in front
of rear-projection Mexican vistas, while his
hard-working double bicycles down streets,
strides across beaches, etc. The newly hot
Ursula Andress keeps Elvis and his double
company. Elvis's jobs are among his craziest
movie gigs: he begins as a deckhand, is hired
as a nightclub entertainer/lifeguard, but is
revealed to be a trapeze artist in his former
life. By the end, of course, he is also a cliff
diver. --Robert Horton