The New Animated Agent Elvis Is Real Art, Offbeat — It’s Not For Kids
Free advice to Priscilla Presley: You can triple the audience, making more money by replicating the Top Gun and Father Stu strategies
Agent Elvis is beautiful — but it desperately needs editing. As it is now, many are hitting “stop” on a cartoon that’s too raunchy for families.
The new Netflix TV series wants to be cutting-edge cool (and it’s hard to get cooler than Elvis Presley flying with a jetpack). Unfortunately, Agent Elvis is as jarring as lousy plastic surgery:
Its aims and outcomes are out-of-sync.
Agent Elvis: looks like a cartoon the whole family could enjoy — until you hear the unhelpful language that doesn’t fit
Turning off the sound makes Agent Elvis look like a fun, artistic triumph. The real trouble: Hollywood inserted more gore, violence, and gutter talk than the story (or the audience) required.
“Netflix’s Agent Elvis is extremely child unfriendly and has more in common with Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood than Hanna-Barbera’s Super Friends,” The Guardian says of the foul-mouthed violent vision of the king…
