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Follow That Dream is one of my favorite Elvis movies.He proves he could have been good at light comedy.This is a fun,good natured role for Elvis.There is comedy,romance and Elvis music.If you like this combination,you will like this movie.

Highly entertaining comedy of the "Egg and I" type set in the everglades, Florida. Elvis and O'Connell are son and pa, with orphans in tow including a baby, a set of adolescent twins, and a very grown up Anne Helm. They decide to homstead a piece of highway fill land, bringing on the wrath of "social welfare" officials, the cancellation of their coveted benefits, and a group of mobsters attracted to the state of lawlessness in the "territorial land" (led by the competent Simon Oakland). Elvis becomes the sherrif and accidentally scares the hardened mobsters away, in a bit that must have appealed particularly to the Southern drive-in audience this film was clearly aimed at. Lots of laughs for a packing audience at the Parkway Theater, Oakland California 2002.

This was Elvis beginning to come into his own as good actor. This was one of his funniest movies. His character, Toby is a mentally limited young man with a heart of gold. I like the way that even the Kwimper's own mistakes cannot defeat them. This movie had a strong plot and once again a strong supporting cast, with the late Arthur O'Connell (Kissin Cousins), Anne Helm and the late Howard McNear. If Elvis had made more movies like this, his movie career would have been much better acclaimed.

This is one of Elvis's best films in my opinion. And one where he extended his range a bit. Usually he plays he troubled youths, or confident smart people who are trying to prove themselves. Here's he's an innocent in the world and it's a tribute to his acting skills that he was acquiring that he didn't descend into being Gomer Pyle.

Of course the film is greatly helped by the title tune which in my opinion is one of his best movie songs. Follow That Dream rightly belonged among Elvis's golden hits.

With an innocence here that rivals even Stan Laurel or Harry Langdon, Elvis manages to defeat some pretty sharp characters. The film itself has a charming innocence about it that makes it thorough going fun.

For sheer entertainment and enjoyment, "Follow That Dream" was a great movie. It was one of Elvis' best. To watch it was to restore your vision of all that is good and right in the world. It was truly a great story of the victory of good over evil. I saw it when I was a young man and at age 64 I still enjoy watching it. This is one young people and older should view. We all would be better people by doing so.