What's that you say? You're sick of movie sequels, remakes of old TV shows and all the other unoriginal films that Hollywood regularly turns out like sausage? Well, I just saw a movie which is perhaps more original than most people can handle.

The movie is called Bubba Ho-Tep, and it has been slowly making its way to theaters around the country. I know, it sounds like an exercise video or a Star Wars character, but the title, according to the film's opening segment, translates roughly as "trailer park pharaoh".

The plot, based on a short story by Joe R. Lansdale, revolves around Elvis Presley and President John F. Kennedy, who are actually still alive and staying in an old folks home in rural East Texas. They've discovered that an Egyptian mummy, which ended up in a nearby river after its tour show bus crashed, has come to life and is sucking the souls from residents of the seedy rest home. Tell me that you've already seen that story line in a movie. Go ahead, try and say it's been done before.

In the film, Elvis lived beyond his public death after switching places with an Elvis impersonator in the 1970's in order to escape his meaningless life as a drug addicted celebrity. Jack Kennedy claims that Lyndon Johnson planned the assassination attempt in Dallas, and then replaced the chunk of missing brain in his head with a sand bag and had the President dyed to look like an African American so that nobody would recognize him or believe he was still alive. The jokes derived from such a bizarre situation are harsh sometimes, but very funny.

Bruce Campbell plays Elvis, and Ossie Davis costars as President Kennedy. While many of the lines are hilarious, the two actors play their parts totally straight. That makes all the difference in the world. It isn't important whether the two men are actually who they claim to be. All that matters is that they believe they are an ex President and an aging King of rock and roll. The film couldn't work any other way.