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I loved this picture. AND I am ashamed at the critics who say bad acting. This movie had my wife and I laughing and in tears. And that is what an actor is supposed to do...bring out our emotions. Every cast member especially Blake did a super job. Ray pulled the job as minister perfectly and so did Ashley as a pastor's wife. As an Elvis fan and a minister of over 35 years, I could look at this movie and see the comparisons in songs and titles and life styles. And for Blake to play this with such passion and humor and the music was so good. I especially loved the songs City Lights and the one he won the contest with "Your Love is Keeping Me Tonight." For those who criticize this movie are either bad critics or morons. It is a breath of fresh air to see a movie out of Hollywood that understands real America and not the one liberals want you to see. The movie had a plot. It had great music. It had a wonderful cast. It had humor. It had times you could feel the hurt. It had Romance. And finally it had a lesson with a Christian perspective.

I read a few of the other comments. So critical! I loved the movie. Just to see Tina, Bob, James, Nancy and Paul in their prime. The movie was meant for fun...not a literary study for correctness. True the jokes were corny...but hey...anything that attempts to make us laugh and be clean at the same time is so rare today. The movies today have more violence more cursing more junk...I tell ya i sure miss the days of jerry lewis and dean and Abbott and Costello...Ernest P Worrell...Movies like these are treasures. I remember sitting with my mom as a kid and watching James Darren. It wasn't the movie, it was the man...and the cast...Or where are the Red Skeltons of today? Remember the times when entertainers ended with and "May God Bless" and meant it. Roy Rogers ended his TV show with "May the Good Lord Take a Likin to ya" I see movies to day that are really funny and have so much profanity in them, when the movie would had been funny without them. I sure miss movies like "For those who think Young". I miss the musicals. James Darren singing...Elvis singing, Dean Martin singing, Ricky Nelson singing, Frank, Bing, and beach movies with Gary Lewis, Jan and Dean...Frankie and Annette...and the movies left a song you could hum, sing a long and feel good about yourself...the romance...made you think of good things and good hopes for the future. I am in my 40's and hardly ever go to movies anymore. Maybe one a year. Sure there are the DVD's but there are not the entertainers that just make you want to go see them, as it used to be...Where are the John Waynes? Where are the movies that made feel good about being an American? So in conclusion...this movie may not be a critics love-lore but it sure is better than most of the crap on screen today.