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Friday, Feb 10, 2006
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Variety
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Cinema Elvis Has Left The Building - Leave your mind behind Shyam G. Menon
Kim Basinger in `Elvis Has Left The Building.'
Mumbai , Feb. 9 NO offence meant, but to see Elvis Has Left The Building you need to first ask your mind to leave the body. That done; eat popcorn, slurp a cola, do whatever you want - for this film can be watched with one lazy eye, an attempted comedy struggling to tickle you. Once in a long while, you suspect it works; a vague something between a smile and staying awake takes hold. There is also a point in between when the second eye springs open, a glimpse of Tom Hanks' face stuck inside a mailbox, the beginning and end of his two second-appearance in the film. The synopsis: Harmony (Kim Basinger) was born in an Elvis Presley concert and has been strangely connected to the King since her birth. She works as a makeup saleswoman, but one day she accidentally kills two Elvis impersonators. Now fleeing from the FBI with a down-on-his-luck ad executive (John Corbett), they end up in Las Vegas, right in the middle of an Elvis impersonator convention. That's it. Perhaps the real sad thing about Elvis Has Left The Building is that it is a terribly wasted opportunity. The world of Elvis impersonation and those living off it has to be a world with its own compulsions and wealth of stories. All that was overlooked to sell the funny adventures of a saleswoman in pink. But then, why be serious all the time? The film opens here on February 10.
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