LOL!!! This has got to be the best musical B-Movie ever!!! It's insane and hokey!!!! I keep thinking Elvis as Chadwick is going to bust out his guitar or start dancing if he mentions going to the bathroom. Lived all my life in Hawaii and has only viewed this movie now. Too funny!!!!!
The dances and singing are a riot!!! And The Murder She Wrote lady is a hoot! Rock-A-Hula baby!!!
"Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold on to happiness."-KG
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lightcloud, I totally agree that this movie was beautifully shot (although I wasn't around in the 60's) and my favorite being the wedding scene. Don't see big red carnation leis like that too often. Gorgeous cinematography.
I was laughing in tears while watching this with my parents and they kept telling me over and over "You know, the girls went crazy whenever he would shake and dance like that" or "Those songs were the rage back then." They share your wonderful memories and sentiments, lightcloud. It's just bizarre for me to view this for the first time in 2006!
My favorite was when Chad's dad called out the servant's name "Ping Pong." LOL!!! And then Elvis called out his nickname "Pingo." Too much!!! I asked my folks if they were offended by this image and name, and they told me no because they didn't take the caricature seriously and just took the humor and silliness at face value. Ito eats! <Rukia pounds the floor>
I made their day by popping this in their very underused DVD player! Blue Hawaii's insane!!! Time to slice some sand, baby!
"Humans are cowards in the face of happiness. You need courage to hold on to happiness."-KG
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I cant believe local people wouldn't be offended by the character Ping Pong in this movie. It's called institutionalized racism. You think white people and truly people all over the world don't look at those kinds of images and imagine there is some truth to them? Blacks were always shown as servants and lowly characters in movies, tv and radio shows and thus these images went out to the world. As a result, you have Koreans who have never left Korea who are scared of black people. Its like the people in charge of the media use these images as propaganda for their racist agendas. Characters like Ping Pong are a disgrace but what is truly sad is that people of Asian background would see this image and LAUGH when they should be outraged. The character was not meant to be a joke. That is how some people see Asians. They teach whole courses on this topic at universities, as an ethnic studies minor, I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't comment. I wont even get started on white slave owners running Hawaiian sugar plantation just like the cotton plantations in the southern US. Elvis' family in this movie is just an example. Movies like this just remind me of why I wouldn't mind at all if people of European heritage were to disappear completely from the face of the earth.
shareTRUTEK808...you're kidding, right? That's the funny thing about IMDb, every movie is either the greatest movie ever, the worst movie ever, the most overrated movie ever, the most underrated movie ever, or the most racist movie ever.
sharelol, one of the worst posts I've ever read on the imdb in a decade! You start out saying that you "cant belive local people wouldn't be offended by the character Ping Pong in this movie" when in actual fact nobody complained about it at the time and the OP said that his parents weren't offended by it because they didn't take it seriously. You end your post basically with some kind of half-baked genocidal fantasy, which sort of makes your whole politically correct language really ridiculous. You even refer to white people as "European heritage", most PC nuts aren't even smart enough to do that. The whole thing is too much! You should copywright this post, surely it's high satire, right?
God knows run of the mill Hong Kong movies don't make fun of white people, and I never saw a stereotyped Italian or Jewish character in a movie made by black people either. This is surely some perversion intrinsic to people of European heritage -- they must be wiped from the face of the earth!
again -- too much!
Did I not love him, Cooch? MY OWN FLESH I DIDN'T LOVE BETTER!!! But he had to say 'Nooooooooo'
Elvis has always been big in Hawaii (that's why he had his "comeback" special there and filmed more than one movie there). Also, his movies have always done well in Asia. So, the racism you see, the victims don't see or believe exists. In reviewing your other postings for different movies, race seems to be your favorite subject.
shareSaw it with my group Friday night, and enjoyed it much more than expected. I used to consider it strictly fluff, but it does indeed have entertainment value and the old folks in the movie group enjoyed it.
I'm the kind of guy, when I move - watch my smoke. But I'm gonna need some good clothes though.
TRUTEK808 14 years ago--Your post is so stupid, so self-righteous, so absurd that I can't believe it wasn't a joke. You sounded like a child having his first experience of being brainwashed by leftist professors at some worthless college. I hope you have grown up during the intervening years.
shareYes, those Americans are so racist. Imagine painting a huge mustache on a guy and calling him Groucho! Or calling 3 brothers, working hard for a living, 'the 3 stooges'!
It was the humor of the times. In 50 years, the things we routinely say today may be found offensive. 'Gay' once simply meant happy. Words and meanings change with times. We can groan at a name like 'ping-pong', and it was insensitive. But it was different times, and the movie was a COMEDY! (of the time)
And if you hate racism, and are white, DON'T move to Hawaii. It's not like the movies... (especially for kids)