Written by Chris Snellgrove | Published
Bruce Campbell is a member of the royal family and has appeared in many films, but he is still best known to movie fans evil dead privilege. If you’re like us, you find Campbell’s performance more addictive than a sugary soda from S-Mart, and you’re always looking for more movies to showcase his handsome, slightly rubbery face. If you’re ready to welcome the King, here’s some good news: you can now stream Bubba is a tipCampbell’s strangest film, completely free on Tubi.
What the heck Bubba is a tip on? Bruce Campbell plays an elderly man in a nursing home who claims to be the still-living Elvis Presley. He teams up with Jack (played by Ossie Davis), a man claiming to be President John F. Kennedy, who has been cured after the assassination attempt and transformed into a black man. Together they must stop a resurrected and rampaging Egyptian mummy, whom Campbell’s character dubs “Bubba Ho-Tip.”
Now, if you feel like you’re having a stroke while reading this description, fair warning: this is what it feels like to watch it from beginning to end. The film begins with a crazy introduction to a long-dead celebrity and a president teaming up to stop a different kind of evil dead. As a fan of the genre, I loved how this movie was more outlandish than its genre beginning More than most movies ever get, and it gets weirder with every scene.
If you’re a very literary nerd, then name it Bubba is a tip It may sound familiar. This is because it is based on the novel of the same name written by Joe R. Lansdale. The film is relatively faithful in its adaptation, so if you enjoyed the novel, you’ll likely dig the film (and vice versa). It’s a strong story made much better by the inclusion of Bruce Campbell, who plays against type as an aging rock star even though he was only 44 when the film was released.
Talk about Bubba is a tipThe film’s fascinating story won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Screenplay, a very prestigious horror award. This is because the film goes deeper than Bruce Campbell fighting evil dead people. It also addresses what it means to grow old and unimportant, and the lengths people will go to feel like they still matter. It’s a poignant meditation on age and aging, albeit in the form of a completely deranged horror-comedy.
Bubba is a tip The film was not a box office darling, earning only $1.2 million against a $1 million budget. This is because it was shown mostly through film festivals rather than premiering worldwide. Despite this very limited distribution, it did not take long for the film to gain acclaim from critics and audiences alike.
on rotten tomatoes, Bubba is a tip It received a critical score of 78 percent and an audience rating of 79 percent. Critics generally praised how the film effortlessly combined outlandish, over-the-top comedy with a wistful, wistful nostalgia for lost youth and better days. You get the best of both worlds with this movie: It’s a horror comedy from Bruce Campbell that may make you cry when you least expect it.
will Bubba is a tip Make you laugh, cry, or maybe a little of both? You won’t know until you stream it for free on Tubi. Then, you may never look at Bruce Campbell the same way, and you’ll be able to outsmart all the so-called history experts in your orbit by reminding them that Elvis and JFK didn’t die for decades, and instead lived for a long time. Enough to save the world from an evil mummy.
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