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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Satire, Sex, The Cold War...And Rock & Roll!, June 20, 2002
This movie is an excellent time-capsule for the end of the late '50's/early'60's rock n' roll era. (It came out in 1963, just a few months before the Beatles hit our shores & changed everything forever.)It's got everything: An Elvis-like rock n' roll sex-machine on a motorcycle, check! Cold War political satire, check! A spoof of middle-class American values, check! Young, gorgeous Ann-Marget, check & check again! I was born too late to experience this time period & I haven't actually seen the Broadway original from 1960 with Chita Rivera in the Janet Leigh role. But this movie is a fast-paced, witty musical-comedy. I know the 1995 version sticks closer to the original story, but I think that version plays too much into the whole "nostalgia"-thing....an element that was NOT a part of any show actually made back then. That version was also slow & not very funny. This version is great! A lot has been said about the music, but the comedy hasn't got much attention. The humor manages to be suggestive without being vulgar. It's kind of like reading an old issue of MAD Magazine, but this is acted out! If you want laughs every second, great songs & great dancing, as well as a humorous glimpse as to what American attitudes were like back then, then this 1963 version is for you! It's "Honestly Sincere!"
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