Next to Jailhouse Rock, Viva Las Vegas is one of Elvis Presley's finest films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 1, 2022

Few filming locations survived ensuing decades looking the same, but Elvis never really left the building-or the city...Viva Las Vegas shines brighter than most of his films, helped by surehanded direction from George Sidney...

| Aug 11, 2021

Don't tell Ann-Margret that this is supposed to be an Elvis Presley movie...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 25, 2020

Justly celebrated as the rare Elvis movie in which Presley is not just complemented but also challenged by a song-and-dance co-star of comparable sexual energy and anatomical expressiveness.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2014

Surely, it's Elvis' vehicle, but the movie really belongs to Ann-Margret.

| Aug 11, 2014

Typical entertaining but lightweight and vulgar Elvis vehicle.

| Original Score: B- | Jun 13, 2013

It's not magic, this movie, but it is alchemy of a kind...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 11, 2011

Vegas ad is a nonstop song-and-dance delight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

Presley's one really good musical, mainly because it features a female costar, Ann-Margret, who can match the coiffed one in the charisma stakes.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 24, 2008

The sizzling combination of Elvis Presley and Ann-Margaret is enough to carry Viva Las Vegas over the top.

| Apr 24, 2008

Vulgar, spirited, and neglected director George Sidney meets his match with this 1964 Elvis Presley vehicle.

| Apr 24, 2008

It's all color and glamor and sexy fun.

| Aug 14, 2007

One of Elvis Presley's best films, Viva Las Vegas benefits from the exuberant direction of MGM vet George Sidney, the young and sexy Ann-Margret as romantic interest, and over 12 melodic songs that take up half of the running time (only 85 minutes).

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 13, 2007

...a cut above most of Elvis's movies, but, unfortunately, it still comes off as little more than an upscale nightclub revue.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Aug 3, 2007

Directed by George Sidney, it has a carefree spirit as opposed to the carelessness of the other films, and for once Elvis is paired with a worthy co-star.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Thin even by Presley standards.

Full Review | Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2005

Coming on a balmy day, with no pretensions of art, Viva Las Vegas, the new Elvia Presley vehicle, is about as pleasant and unimportant as a banana split. And as fetching to look at, it might be added.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 9, 2005

Hallucinatory but fabulously entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2004