You won't be disappointed!

Waste of time

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

This film is like a jigsaw puzzle put together with the pieces from 5 different boxes, so nothing fits together and the end result is an awkward mess. Box #1 is a darkly comic take on the Elvis impersonator phenomenon and the pathetic people who take it way too seriously. Box #2 is a plaintive spin on a woman looking for love after a lifetime consumed by her job as a cosmetics saleswoman. The third set of pieces are about that same woman's odd relationship with Elvis Pressley, complete with flashbacks to Elvis-involved moments from her childhood and an internal monologue where she talks to The King like he was her guardian angel. Even more parts of the story revolve around the struggles of an advertising executive trying to do his job with some creative integrity, of all things, and appear to be in the movie solely because Sean Astin, of all people, agreed to take a supporting role. And the fifth concept that got chopped up and ungracefully jammed into Elvis Has Left The Building is two FBI agents straight out of an off Broadway revival of The Odd Couple. Oh, and there's a gay character who would have been a boring stereotype in 1994, let alone a decade later when this thing was made.Harmony Jones (Kim Basinger) is a traveling saleswoman on a tour of the Great American Southwest, trying to recruit other women to start pushing Pink Lady Cosmetics. A childhood encounter with Elvis has left her with a lifelong, emotional bond with the music legend that starts sweet and turns satirical when Harmony starts running into Elvis impersonators as they accidentally kill themselves. That's what brings in two mismatched federal agents (Mike Starr and Phill Lewis) to investigate the death spree. There's also the handsome ad man (John Corbett) on his way to Las Vegas to drop off his soon-to-be-ex-wife's Elvis costume who runs into Harmony and instantly chases after her like a starving dog after a pound of hamburger. The ad man is also constantly on the phone with his assistant in New York (Sean Astin), arguing over how trashy a new campaign should be.Kim Basinger always has a certain appeal and if someone with some talent had been brought in to radically rewrite this horrible script, taking Harmony, John Corbett's character and the whole Elvis motif and excising pretty much everything else, maybe director Joel Zwick could have used that to make a romantic comedy that didn't stink on ice. Elvis Has Left The Building is so inept, I'd bet money that it never occurred to credited writers Mitchell Ganem and Adam-Michael Garber how much the name Harmony Jones sounds like something out of 1970s "blaxploitation" flick. Their plot is dependent on people behaving like morons. They wouldn't know a good joke if it landed on their head like an Acme anvil squashing Wile E. Coyote. At least 50% of the scenes they've written here should have never been shot, forget about left on the cutting room floor.Normally, a bad movie has several bad things about it. Elvis Has Left The Building has only one flaw but this awful script is so terrible that it drags everything else down like cement shoes on a Mafia informant. If you ever wanted evidence that no one in the movie business knows a good screenplay from a bad one, look no further. Not that you should actually watch this fiasco, of course.

I'm not saying this is the best movie I have ever seen. It is, however, a pretty funny movie. I had a special connection Elvis (and still do) and watching this movie helped me, in a way, feel a little closer to him. The movie is about Elvis impersonators. Harmony clearly had a connection with Elvis like I did. She respected him like I do. And since I do, I was a bit hesitant about watching this movie. But as I started watching it, I realized it's not trying to offend Elvis, but it's simply giving out a message that maybe it would bother Elvis, having all the impersonators around. Knowing Elvis, it probably would. So, while this isn't the greatest movie around, it definitely gives a message in a humorous way. My connection with Elvis just got stronger!

The successful Pink Lady cosmetics saleswoman Harmony Jones (Kim Bassinger), who uses lipsticks of her competitor to protect her lips, is very connected to Elvis Presley since she was seven years old and met him. She presently wishes to have a boy-friend and raise a family of her own, being lucky in business and unlucky in love. While traveling nearby Las Vegas, she accidentally kills three Elvis Presley impersonators, and she believes the police is chasing her. Meanwhile, she also meets Miles Taylor (John Corbett), who works in an advertising agency in New York, and is traveling to Las Vegas to finalize his divorce process with his former wife, Belinda (Denise Richards). She wants her Elvis Presley clothes back as the final condition to sign the divorce papers. Harmony sees the clothes in Miles' hands and believing he is another Elvis impersonator, she avoids him, afraid of hurting him.My wife is a great fan of Elvis Presley (but she is not an Elvis impersonators), and I bought this DVD for her. For me, the great attraction was the always sexy and gorgeous Kim Bassinger. Denise Richards, Angie Dickinson, John Corbett, Tom Hanks and other names completed a really good cast, and we have just watched this movie. "Elvis Has Left the Building" is a very silly romantic comedy, with a quite ridiculous script near to the non-sense, but with lots of black humor. Although alternating good moments with very bad ones, I really laughed a lot. There are really funny situations and although very irregular, it entertains. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Elvis Ainda Não Morreu" ("Elvis Has not Died Yet")

I just loved John Corbett he was so cute and it helped made this movie watchable. Kim Bassinger played a super role too. Some of the E.T.A.;'s well words fail me on them but it was a comedy after all. I enjoyed it.I also love John in "My Fat Greek Wedding". he is so cute. Does anyone know if there'a a fan club for him?I loved the scenes but is it near Laughlin NV?Does John appear in any other movies? I love anything to with Elvis. I loved the shoots at Viva Las Vegas Villas I have stayed there recently.Does anyone know who some of the Elvis guys who appeared in this movie and are they working as Elvis or just did it for the movie?