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List Price: $19.95 | | Label: MVD Visual/Wienerworld Limited
Salesrank: 93971
Released: October 30, 2007 |
| Our Price: $10.88 |
| Used Price: $9.99 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
To mark the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, this unauthorized critical review uses previously unseen private footage of Elvis Presley, and classic original songs, to tell the story of the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Many documentaries have tol
Destination Vegas - Elvis Reviews:
Marginal documentary 
2008-12-16 - A well-written and delivered essay about how a Country boy became a Las Vegas icon forms the basis of this occasionally messy attempt to encapsulate an extraordinary and complicated career.
For new fans, the old clips look okay; for old fans, the previously unseen 8mm and still shots will hold some interest. But the images rarely correspond to the narration. We hear that the 1957 "Jailhouse Rock" is his greatest film, then find the trailor for said picture in the section where his Hollywood decline of the '60s is discussed.
The point of the whole thing is (apparently) to contrast "Vegas" with the 1956 Elvis, who was raw and funky, explosive, all shook up. Ironically, Elvis did appear in Vegas that year, but the venue was off-limits to his young fans. The commentary would have been improved to mention this strange phenomenon: Elvis didn't connect with the middle-aged fans originally, but years later actually structured his show *around* that demographic!
There's a distasteful inclusion of a supposed example of Elvis "losing it" in public, presumeably because of false rumours. He sounds quite perturbed, but if one listens closely he makes perfect sense. He says that he is at the center of a major enterprise, involving the transport of three airplanes worth of people and equipment, and the presentation of the biggest musical show in the world. How can he be spaced out and deliver at the same time?
But despite the obvious bias and the poorly integrated visuals, and the short running time, there's enough interesting stuff to keep this DVD out of the "Used DVDs" bins for a while.
A British Blunder 
2008-01-10 - Destination Vegas - Elvis
On the back of the video cover it states this release is "unauthorised." Once you view it, you will understand why. It is a disgrace to Elvis and his legacy. For one thing, a child could have done a better job in assembling these images which renders this video nothing more than a makeshift endeavor and ultimately a random compilation of performances, most of ridiculously poor quality. Not only are the blurred images of Elvis performances embarrassing to the filmmaker so too the narrator. This Brit's accent is rather annoyingly redundant in his negative recounting of an artist's life. He obviously knows very little about Elvis or his audiences nor does he even care to find out about it in order to provide viewers with anything remotely worth watching. The video lacks a story line and a theme. The sound and words are out of sync with the images making a bad lip sync look professional next to this production. What was the point of that? Lastly, Destination Vegas has nothing to do with the wonderful and meaningful Vegas years of Elvis and as for the story of Elvis getting there, well, this Brit ought to stick to topics on his side of the ocean. Extremely overpriced item.
Destination Vegas
2008-01-09 - The title is very deceiving. The story was not put together very well. Seemed like a cut and paste project.
Destination Vegas - Elvis
2007-12-06 - This was a waste of money. It had less than many of the other dvd's that I have purchased. I would not recommend anyone wasting their money to buy this particular dvd.
Destination Vegas - Elvis 
2007-12-02 - There really wasn't alot of new material. Most of what there was was grainy and poor quality. There is some new material alot in the audio track. I can really only recommend this to the die hard Elvis fan that wants everything there is on Elvis.
