Oddball Bubba proves worth the wait

If you can keep up with Bubba Ho-Tep, and if you can figure out what it’s all about, you’ll be richly entertained, and a cut above most of those sitting around you.

Bubba Ho-Tep

Director: Don Coscarelli

Cast: Bruce Campbell, Bob Ivy, Ossie Davis, Ella Joyece, Heidi Marnhout.

If you can keep up with this decidedly off-centre film - and if you can figure out what it’s all about - you’ll be richly entertained, and a cut above most of those sitting around you.

Luckily, the film comes with its tongue firmly in its cheek, and there’s a lot of cheek as we have Elvis and JFK found hiding away in a nursing home (the latter turned into an African-American).

Then, for some curious reason, there’s an Egyptian mummy after the souls of the above.

It’s a comedy, though it’s a horror, and then it’s a …

Oddly enough, the entire film is clever, witty, played with a lot of heart by a fine cast.

You won’t be disappointed by the sheer inventiveness of it.

Star Rating: 4/5