Bruce Campbell gets back to his campy horror roots in this flick about a couple of long dead cultural icons battling a 2000 year old mummy to save the residents of a rest home. Campbell plays (fairly convincingly, I might add) an aging Elvis who traded places with an impersonator in order to escape the trappings of fame. Now he's wasting away in a Texas rest home where his only real friend is John F. Kennedy, played by Ossie Davis (yeah, you read that right).
When the two crazy old geezers realize that there is a mummy sucking the souls of their fellow residents and writing Egyptian graffiti on the bathroom wall, they do the only thing they can: they devise a plan to whip the mummy's ass.
This movie is awesome for a bunch of reasons, but the best one is that it is actually pretty sweet and melancholy, even with all the craziness of the plot.
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