Thanks for the memories!

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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

Elvis Presley was a hugely influential performer with one of the most distinctive singing voices of anybody. He embarked on a film career consisting of 33 films from 1956 to 1969, films that did well at the box-office but mostly panned critically (especially his later films) and while he was a highly charismatic performer he was never considered a great actor.Some of his films, well a vast majority of the films before 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' (when his films became much less consistent), are actually pretty good and a few of them close to great. Particularly good are 'King Creole', 'Jailhouse Rock', 'Flaming Star' and 'Loving You'. 'It Happened at the World's Fair' is hardly one of Elvis' worst however, if anything it's a middling effort, patchy but decent.There are good things here in 'It Happened at the World's Fair'. The locations are colourful and beautifully shot, the archive footage is very nostalgic and is inserted well. A few of the songs are great, the big one being "One Broken Heart for Sale", with "They Remind Me Too Much of You" and "How Would You Like to Be" on the same level.Elvis is good natured and charismatic with his singing beautiful and distinctive as ever. Vicky Tiu is adorable and never gets on the wrong side of annoying, Gary Lockwood is charming and Kurt Russell makes an interesting screen debut with two of the film's best scenes.However, 'It Happened at the World's Fair' is overlong and rather slight, with a couple of subplots either needing elaboration, in need of a trim down or excision. The ending wraps everything up far too patly too. Of the songs, three of them are great while the others range from good to forgettable and vary in how well they fit, though none of them are disposable (like the worst songs in 'Blue Hawaii', 'Girls! Girls! Girls!' and Elvis' worst films).As to be expected, considering that it is rarely a strong suit in Elvis' films with a couple of exceptions ('King Creole' and 'Flaming Star') the dialogue is corny with mawkish sentimentality and humour that sometimes is fun but too often falls flat. Joan O'Brien is flavourless window dressing, and Norman Taurog's direction is routine at best.To conclude, a decent if patchy middling Elvis film. 6/10 Bethany Cox

'It Happened at the World's Fair' is an enjoyable "rom-com" I think they'd call it today. This was a Movie where Elvis began to hone his comedy performances, something critics picked up on in the late 60's. There are several memorable comedy moments in 'It Happened at the World's Fair. The standout scenes are the two with a 10 year old Kurt Russell in, first where Elvis pays him to kick Elvis in the shin so that he has an excuse to visit the Fair's medical practice and try and woo Nurse, Joan O'Brien, secondly when the two meet again later that night AFTER Elvis has wooed the Nurse, and the young Kurt Russell spills the beans to her that Elvis paid him to kick him in the shins. I also found the scenes where Elvis is faking illnesses to grab the Nurses attention as witty. First the "problem" with his eyes in the clinic, particularly out on the bike where he claims he's feeling dizzy and produces some amusing facial expressions. With the help of a 6 year old Vicky Tiu whom Elvis and his troublesome friend Gary Lockwood are "minding" following the disappearance of her Uncle, Elvis of course manages to get the girl and make it a "Happy Ending"...little Vicky Tiu produces a memorably cute performance throughout. 'It Happened at the World's Fair' is an enjoyable, fast flowing movie that unlike it's predecessor "Girls! Girls! Girls!" maintains the interest level throughout, and produces a few great songs "Happy Ending" and "One Broken Heart For Sale" but the best song by far, is the under rated "They Remind Me Too Much Of You" and the brilliant "video" within the movie that accompanies it. For me it's one of The King's best, most easy to relate to ballads he EVER did - movies or otherwise. Even if you don't watch 'It Happened at the World's Fair' check out "They Remind Me Too Much of You" and the video from the movie on YouTube.

Honestly, I love this movie! It's, in my opinion, the best Elvis movie. It's kid friendly, and doesn't have half naked bimbos running around all over creation. It's a very heartwarming movie, that leaves you in a happy, lightweight mood afterwords. Mike(Elvis) and Danny start off this movie with Danny gambling away all of their money, and in too much debt, the Sheriff takes away their plane, Bessie. Needing transportation, they hitchhike their way to Seattle with Sue-lin and her uncle. Mike repairs Sue-lin's ukulele, and then explains what the World's Fair is to her through a song. Once they get off in Seattle, Sue-lin and her uncle come to Mike and Danny saying that the uncle is too busy to take Sue-lin to the fair, so Mike agrees to take her. While at the fair, Sue-lin overeats and develops a stomach ache. At the nurse's office, Mike spots a pretty nurse and makes up a story about having something in his eye. The nurse is offended and asks him to leave. Mike returns Sue-lin to her uncle and Danny announces that he's met a guy who will provide them with a place to stay. Mike is still thinking about the nurse, and goes back to the fair too see her. He pays a little boy to kick him, causing a huge bruise, and sees Diane(the nurse). Diane takes care of him along with another nurse, but they meet the boy and he spills the beans about kicking Mike. A few minutes later, Sue-lin finds Mike and tells him her uncle is gone. Mike lets her stay with them, causing and resolving different problems. VERY CUTE and worth watching!

Even at this fairly early stage in The King's film career, he was beginning the embalming process, mired down as he was in predictable, substandard, cookie-cutter musical romps with banal songs and curvy female co-stars. The spin here was that his chief co-star is an Asian ankle-biter who adores him in a different way than most. Crop-dusting pilot Presley and his ne'er-do-well partner Lockwood find themselves without two dimes to rub together and hitchhike, for no real reason, to Seattle where the World's Fair of 1962 is taking place. Their ride, apple farmer Tong, entrusts Presley with his little niece Tiu so that she can enjoy the fair. However, by the end of the day, Tong is gone and Presley has little choice but to keep the little girl as he waits for her uncle (and only relative) to return for her. Meanwhile, Presley falls for prim nurse O'Brien and Tiu does her best to encourage and enable it. However, Lockwood, who suffers from bad judgment in practically every department, allows Presley to become involved in a shady business proposition which threatens even more trouble for everyone. Presley looks pretty good and sings a plethora of songs nicely, though few of them are memorable or add anything much to the film. He does have a moderately amusing number as he's trying to canoodle with local girl Craig. O'Brien, all bouffant hair and teeth, is pretty, but rather stiff and inanimate (projecting an image that is at odds with her reportedly sultry private life!) and she shares precious little chemistry with Presley. Lockwood isn't given a lot to do except occasionally mess things up, but he's attractive and reasonably effective. Tiu, an automatic scene-stealer in her little braids and dragging along an over-sized, red, plush dog, is charming, though she comes close to overstaying her welcome after a while. In a startling development, she would grown up in real life to become First Lady of Hawaii and an active advocate for teen alcohol awareness. Russell, who would later play Elvis in a much-lauded TV-movie, has a small role as a child who comes across Presley twice at the fair. Fans of Presley enjoy watching him in practically all of his films, but the chief attraction here for most people is the chance to see some stunning footage of the 1962 World's Fair. It's hard to believe how pristine, spotless and gleaming the structures are here and how equally spiffy the people attending are. Though some sequences were recreated or otherwise augmented back at the studio, a large portion of filming took place amid the buildings and attractions in Seattle and it's a rare treat to see them as they were at the time.