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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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