Review of Girls! Girls! Girls!

During the late '70s or early '80s, when my local library in Baton Rouge, LA, wrote the synopsis for this movie it was showing during a Saturday, it described Elvis Presley having to deal with various girls in the film. As if! Instead he mainly had to deal with two-a cynical one played by Stella Stevens and a nice one played by Laurel Goodwin. My mom, during the middle of the movie as it was just running on Amazon Prime, told me she thought-based on the opening number during the beginning credits-that it would be actually about Elvis having a party on his boat! It's actually about his attempt to buy the boat that was originally owned by his family as it was something to remember his late father by. As a kid of the late '70s, early '80s I had first watched this on TV and then at that library I mentioned earlier and I remember enjoying it for what it was knowing even then that it was no great shakes. There are plenty of entertaining Presley numbers including his big hit "Return to Sender" and there are some amusing scenes though one sequence involving a Chinese family borders on being cringy even when it showcases a couple of pre-teen girls who are as cute as can be. And then near the end, well, let's just say something almost bad happens and leave it at that. Still, this was mostly pleasant fare for me and my mom so on that note, Girls! Girls! Girls! is worth a look for any curious Elvis fans out there. P.S. Since It's a Wonderful Life is my favorite movie and I like to cite when a player from that one is in something else, here it's Mary Treen who plays a customer at Laurel's hat shop who is complaining about something just as Laurel and Elvis are leaving.