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| Director: | Robert Altman |
| Studio: | Paramount |
| Producer: | Bruce Robb, Robert Evans |
| Writer: | E.C. Segar, Jules Feiffer |
| Rating: | 4.5 |
| Rated: | PG |
| Date Added: | 2007-03-06 |
| Purchased On: | 2007-06-03 |
| ASIN: | B000094J63 |
| UPC: | 0097360117141 |
| Price: | $9.98 |
| Awards: | 1 nomination |
| Genre: | Adventure |
| Release: | 2003-06-23 |
| IMDb: | 0081353 |
| Duration: | 113 |
| Picture Format: | Widescreen |
| Aspect Ratio: | 2.35:1 |
| Sound: | Dolby |
| Languages: | English, Dolby Digital 5.1, English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround |
| Subtitles: | English |
| Features: | Anamorphic |
Comments: The sailor man with the spinach can!
Summary: Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, and Paul L. Smith makes an impression as the oversized bully, Bluto. But this strange, disastrous film never becomes more than an expensive workshop airing out Altmanesque themes. --Tom Keogh
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Popeye
(1980)
USA