A Hawaiian Luau with Hawaiian cuisine, music, and movies will bring the island flavor to the party location. Use a variety of party supplies and decorations to set the Hawaiian Luau mood. It is important to create the islands of Hawaii as thoroughly as possible with leis, luau shirts, faux palm trees, cutouts, coconut glasses, grass skirts for tables, and tiki hut.

Hawaiian theme movies can be played during the party as well. Hawaiian theme movies include Elvis Presley’s Blue Hawaii. Chad Gates (Elvis) has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back home but his father wants him to go to work at the Great Southern Hawaiian Fruit Company. Chad is reluctant so he begins working as a tour guide at his girlfriend’s agency. Tour guide Elvis sings 14 songs and still manages to drive sightseers around the islands in golf carts. Songs include Blue Hawaii, Can't Help Falling in Love with You and Rock-a-Hula Baby. Co-stars include Angela Lansbury, Joan Blackman, Roland Winters.

On an Island with You (1948) is a Hawaii luau based movie in which a young navy lieutenant is brought in as technical adviser on a song-dance-and-swim film being made by screen star Rosalind Reynolds.

Show a fun Hawaiian luau movie for children such as Aloha, Scooby-Doo! Scooby and the gang fight against nature itself during a trip to Hawaii, where they must investigate the disappearance of a local surfer and solve the mystery of the Wiki Tiki before an unstable volcano blows.

Include a few surfing movies as well for the Hawaiian Luau such as Blue Crush, Board Heads, The Endless Summer, The Green Iguana, Thicker Than Water, The Big Surf, and Morning of the Earth to name a few.