WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Gary The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

telegrafic One of the bests -if not the best- Elvis films. It has it all: nice script, good plot, convincing performances and great songs. Elvis performs some of his great rock 'n roll hits -"(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear", "(Let's Have A) Party", "Hot Dog",...- and Loving You and you can see he's having a great time...so will you by watching this film. Plot is a basic but effective formula: a publicist manager (Lizabeth Scott) of a country group lead by Tex Warner (Wendell Corey) with singer Susan Jessup (Dolores Hart) discovers a local delivery boy singing talent and offers him a contract with them. Soon he becomes more and more successful. But the golden road to fame and fortune is not a bed of roses: fan harassment, love and discovery that things are not what they really seem to be in the showbiz world will test the boy, who should decide what his priorities in life are. Elvis mother Gladys and father Vernon do appear in the final musical numbers as part of the public, sitting by the central passage. An enjoyable film, specially if you are an Elvis fan, you can see him singing and shaking at the peak of his youth rhythm and talent offering us a sincere performance: definitely it's Elvis at his best!

jjnxn-1 Early Elvis that, probably due to distribution problems, is his most obscure. A decent if unexceptional film that contains one of his more popular songs "Teddy Bear" as well as the title tune. It tells a simple tale of a country bumpkin looking for a place in the world and incidentally having a great voice and star power to burn. While most Elvis films except for his worse usually have at least one quality performer, Barbara Stanwyck in Roustabout, Gig Young in Kid Galahad, Angela Lansbury in Blue Hawaii etc., this one has one of the better casts with Lizabeth Scott, Wendell Corey and in the first film of her brief pre-convent career Dolores Hart. A pleasant entertainment.

James Hitchcock "Loving You" was Elvis's second film and tells the semi-autobiographical story of how Deke Rivers, a poor country boy from Texas, rises to fame and fortune as a rock star, and how he is loved by two women, his older business manager Glenda and a sweet young singer named Susan. (No prizes for guessing which of them eventually wins out). This plot, of course, is little more than an excuse for Elvis to sing a number of his hit songs, and not only plot, but also dialogue and characterisation, take second place to the music. (There is some inadvertent social comment about the attitudes of the period- although the action is set in Texas, a state with a sizeable black population, just about every face we see is white).One of the songs which Elvis sings in this film is "Teddy Bear", in which he declares that he would rather be his girlfriend's teddy bear than her lion or tiger. This put me in mind of what "Quinlan's Film Stars" said about him, speaking generally of his film career, namely that his films only rarely caught the electric arrogance that set audiences alight. On stage he may have been a lion or tiger, but in the movies he could be about as threatening as a teddy bear. This was particularly true of his later films from the sixties, bland family fare which probably seemed rather dated even when they came out."Loving You" comes form an earlier stage of his career when he, and rock-and-roll music in general, was frequently denounced by the moralists of the day as a menace to society and a threat to civilised values, and the script makes light-hearted reference to this controversy. The film is certainly livelier and better than some of the later entries in the Elvis canon, such as "Fun in Acapulco" or the particularly awful "Paradise Hawaiian Style", but even so it is still more teddy bear than tiger, with little in it to help us understand, two generations later, just why Elvis was so denounced- or, for that matter, why he was so adored by millions of fans. It makes for undemanding viewing, with some enjoyable music, but I suspect that it is unlikely to be loved today by anyone who is not already a die-hard Elvis fan. 5/10

John von K Yes it's a middle of the road "Let's love Elvis" homage, but with good good sprinkling of songs. Basically a sentimental semi biog. with a nice performance from Wendell Corey (The man with Steve McQueen's eyes) If your abiding image of Elvis is Overweight Jumpsuit don't miss the last five minutes, the young King's rendition of 'Lot of Livin' to do'with make you sweat-energy, youth and joy. It is one the sexiest two minutes of 1950's hollywood celluloid. WOW!