Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

ElvisFanCanada Excellent movie for True Elvis fans. there are some rare scenes. But the songs were good. I'd highly recommend that fans as well as people that didn't like his music watch this movie. Every time i watch Elvis That's The Way It Is I think about why the chose the name. The reason at least in my mind is because it show Elvis as fans didn't see him when he was alive and well. The song choices were very good. My best memory of this one was him sinning in Vegas. The reason I'd recommend this movie it showcases the King at his best. It show's Elvis before all the jumpsuits came out. He sound's just as good as he did on stage. God bless Elvis and his band.

ccthemovieman-1 I've seen this concert in two DVD "forms:" the theatrical release and the 2001 two-disc special edition which also includes about an hour of Elvis in rehearsal with his band. You can see he liked to clown around a lot but he also was serious about a doing a song the exact way he wanted and was definitely in command of that. Hey, all great artists are perfectionists, from dancer Fred Astaire to football quarterback Peyton Manning.Anyway, it's all good stuff and for those who are interested, here is the song list:"That's All Right, Little Sister/Get Back, My baby Left Me, Crying Time, Love Me, Twenty Days and Twenty Nights, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cattle Call, Chime Bells, Santa Claus Is Back In Town, Mary in the Morning;Mystery Train/Tiger Man, That's All Right, I Got a Woman, Hound Dog, Heartbreak Hotel, Love Me Tender, I can't Stop Loving You, Just Pretend, The Yonder of You, In the Ghetto, Patch It Up;You've Lost That Loving Feeling, Polk Salad Annie, One Night, Don't Be Cruel,Blue Suede Shoes, All Shook Up, You Don't Have to Say You Love, Suspicious Minds, Can't Help Falling in Love

Mark Monto This is the quintessential peak of Elvis Presley's now immortal career. In my opinion musically in full stride, 35 years old looking healthy, happy and rail thin. What for history's sake this movie shows so brilliantly is the epic preforming artist Elvis actually was and truly shows that Elvis wasn't at all the parody of the bloated parade of impersonators that followed his passing. Not to be missed an really almost an entirely new movie in the re-edit of Elvis: That's the way it is special edition. Either movie shows the magnanimous performer Elvis was with brilliant live performances like "I Just Can't Help Believing", "Suspicious Minds", "Little Sister", "Words", "The Next Step Is Love "Mary In the Morning" to name a few. His live performances were lensed August 1970 in Las Vegas, sadly he would pass almost exactly 7 years later. Elvis: That's the way it is, so amply titled musically in the adult contemporary arena is as relevant in 2010 as it was in 1970.

Peter Hayes Elvis rehearses/jokes with his pickup band and then hits the low rise super club stage in Las Vegas. This review refers to the re-cut version (a big improvement), although I have seen both.Since America revoked its monarchist past and went republican they have had only one "King." Rightly put there by popular demand rather than by being born in the right bed. Maybe the only democratically elected king of all time! It would be foolish to try and summate the man, but chew on this - he made more people dip in to their pocket and pay for his recordings/products/museum and home than any other artist in the history the world. No critic, however skilled, can take that away from him.(That is not to agree with some of them that his films were bad and at times so camp that only a dyed-in-the-wool fan could sit through them.)In reply to other reviews - Elvis's weight yo-yoed throughout his life. Between movies/tours he blow up and he went on crash diets aided by more of those strange pills. Here - in 1970 - he looks slim enough and young enough to be of sexual interest to any woman of any age (although the surgeons knife had already helped), although good natured and warm he never looks "straight" for a second.The early rehearsals are worthwhile in that he knows what he wants, although his guitar doesn't seen to switched on (although it is plugged in). He is backed by talented musicians, but they are still - when all is said and done - only session men. Capable of playing anything, but probably couldn't come up with a song of their own. The musical 9 to 5'er. Not that anybody could take the limelight away from the king.(The backing singers are too many in number and could almost take the gig over if Elvis passed out on stage.) The audience is older too - some middle-aged - with lots of collars and ties. In the main, the usual Vegas mug punter minus their cup of dimes. The place didn't really have the resident population it has now. The theatre is large and the seats well padded - but would you really want to eat a full meal before Elvis? I couldn't or wouldn't. He even play two shows a night - two shows! Amazing really.The tunes are well known and all inclusive - from his early hits (cut short) to the hit pop songs of the day. Even Bridge Over Troubled Water. They play - on film - better than you might think because Elvis made every tune his own: although he was a strange singer, ad-libbing and often stopping to kiss the girls and take gifts. A moment to remember all your life for those on the receiving end - tedious to us watching. Never mind the diseases you can pick up from sticking your tongue (and he is clearly is!) down the throat of a complete stranger. Even in 1970!You can't live your life like Elvis did and live long. Food, drugs and hangers-on were soon to get the better of the guy and he lay in his grave at the age of 42. A stupid age to leave, but the product of stupid living. "No one said 'no" to Elvis", said wife Priscilla once. I couldn't say "no" to walking down a time tunnel and seeing all this in the flesh myself - even if it did cost an arm and a leg.