Agent Elvis

Matt Roush says...

What’s all that blood doing on Elvis Presley’s blue suede shoes? All in a day’s work for the King, reimagined as a shoot-first secret agent, with Matthew McConaughey’s velvety drawl giving voice to Elvis in a berserk “adult” animated action-comedy. Agent Elvis spoofs the espionage genre with gory ultraviolence befitting a graphic novel and crude humor typified by his psychotic chimp sidekick, Scatter. Devotees might dig seeing their idol as an off-kilter James Bond, but the best jokes involve his long-running feud with his nemesis: Broadway-styled crooner Robert Goulet. Co-creator Priscilla Presley provides her own voice, seen as a 1960s’ sex-kitten version of his soulmate, with Johnny Knoxville and Niecy Nash as his entourage, and Kaitlin Olson and Don Cheadle as the spymasters recruiting Elvis to save the world, regardless of body count. (See the full review.)

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