YMMV / Blue Hawaii

• Awesome Music: "Ku-Ui-Po", "Hawaiian Sunset" and most famously, "Can't Help Falling in Love", which became Presley's sign-off at his concerts and one of the few movie songs he made that wasn't an Old Shame for him.
• Fair for Its Day: This movie should get a lot of points in this trope, considering it was released in 1961.
  • One, and the biggest one: Maile is biracial. (Half French and half Hawaiian.) Remember, this is when interracial marriage was still a serious Berserk Button for a lot of people. She's the smartest female member of the cast, to boot.
  • The Native Hawaiians, while they do have some uniformity to their traits, are far from stereotypical.
  • Maile, a biracial girl, is at a party with Honolulu high society as Chad's date. Chad's mother, despite her protests against their relationship, is polite to her nevertheless, only out of social necessity. On the other hand, Chad's father likes her a lot and doesn't really seem to mind the relationship.
• First Installment Wins: Of Presley's three Hawaii-set films, both in terms of soundtrack and the film itself.
• Funny Moments: Several. Just the highlights:
  • This gem from Ito, a Native Hawaiian: "Nah, lipstick, like, fattening." (It Makes Sense in Context, and funnier.)
  • "Tourists aren't people! They're tourists." (Chad's mother)
• Heartwarming Moments: Chad subtly proposing to Maile through Gates Tourism Service. "Well, Gates is plural. That's a proposal, in case you haven't figured it out yet."
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Chad gets fired by Mr. Chapman for defending himself (and Mr. Chapman's clients) and Maile quits! Bonus points when, in the next scene, it's mentioned that Ms. Prentace (the schoolteacher) actually cancelled her tour out of rage that Chad had been fired.
  • Chad's father's reaction of joy when Chad proposes to Maile at the end of the movie.