Robin Williams

Shelley Duvall

Ray Walston

Paul Dooley

Paul L. Smith

Richard Libertini

Donald Moffat

MacIntyre Dixon

Roberta Maxwell

Donovan Scott

Allan F. Nicholls

Wesley Ivan Hurt

Bill Irwin

Robert Fortier

David McCharen

Sharon Kinney

Peter Bray

Linda Hunt

Geoff Hoyle

Wayne Robson

Larry Pisoni

Susan Kingsley

Michael Christensen

Ray Cooper

John E. Bristol

Julie Janney

Nathalie Blossom

Dennis Franz

Alan Autry

Ned Dowd

Roberto Messina

Pietro Torrisi

David Arkin

Klaus Voormann

Doug Dillard

Van Dyke Parks

Stan Wilson

Roberto Dell'Acqua

Valerie Velardi

Jack Mercer

C.O. Erickson

Jules Feiffer

Giuseppe Rotunno

Robert Altman

Robert Evans

David A. Simmons

John W. Holmes

Harry Nilsson

Wolf Kroeger

Robert Eggenweiler

Stephen Altman

Alfredo Tiberi

Raja Gosnell

John A. Larsen

Scott Bushnell

Michael H. Ford

Robert Gravenor

Hal Sanders

Teresa Eckton

Bill Phillips

Tom Pierson

Dan Wallin

Sam F. Shaw

Michael Minkler

Allen Hall

Maria Teresa Corridoni

Yvonne Zarb Cousin

Richard Whitfield

Suzanne Hines

Bob Dahlin

John Hay

Giancarlo Del Brocco

Victor Tourjansky

Ted Whitfield

Tony Lombardo

Sam Gemette

Gianfranco Transunto

Gabriella Borzelli

Aldo Signoretti

Jack Stephens

Luca Kouimelis

Gianlorenzo Battaglia

E. C. Segar

Reg Bream

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Popeye

Paramount Pictures

Walt Disney Productions

Robert Evans Company

King Features Syndicate

United States of America

English

baby

octopus

blackmail

musical

based on comic

tax collector

based on cartoon

super power

sailor

spinach

seaside town

abandoned baby

An under-rated classic.

Yep. This is a hot mess. 3 songs dont work... at all.
Its slow, as 1980 films were.
And the plot is paper thin.

But it is glorious.
This movie feels like a cartoon!
The casting is perfect. Williams did his own stunts in his debut, Duval is a whine-y beauty and hell; you couldnt find a cuter baby for the role of Sweat Pea.
The set design is incredible - it took 7 months to build.
The jokes are memorable - both spoken and visual (and there is so much happening that you only see them on repeat viewings).
And the songs (except for those 3 travesties) are catchy.
Finally, this has the best use of an Octopus aside from Lord of the Rings.

This was the perfect way to forget about Hamilton from this weekend trilogy.
Watch this - it is cheesy messy fun.

Very poor.

Safe to say, I didn't enjoy 'Popeye' one bit - despite the presence of one Robin Williams. He is pretty alright in the role of Popeye, but I personally didn't like the uneven/whacky nature of the film. I see - and appreciate - what they were going for, it just doesn't come off in my opinion. It's all very pedestrian.

The characters around Popeye are annoying, as are the very forgettable musical numbers which don't fit in. I had high hopes for this, given I had heard good things of the titular character (not necessarily from this, just overall) as well as the fact of Mr. Williams appears. For me, in terms of his films that I've currently seen, this is closer to 'Hook' than (the awesome) 'Bicentennial Man'.

I'm sure many out there would disagree on that latter point, as well as my view of this film itself. That's fine, each to their own of course. I, though, couldn't wait for it to finish.

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Written by sykobanana on Mon Jul 06 2020

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