Popeye
Looking for the father (Ray Walston) who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Along the way, he vies with the rough Bluto for the affections of Olive Oyl and adopts the young Sweet Pea.
29 September 1947, Chico, California, USA
13 January 1910, Worthington, Indiana, USA
8 April 1945, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
31 July 1952, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA
5 February 1948, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1 March 1946, Middlesboro, Kentucky, USA
5 March 1979, Salina, Kansas, USA
22 December 1931, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
19 August 1942, Watford, Hertfordshire, England, UK
26 May 1950, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6 March 1937, Salem, Missouri, USA
20 January 1940, Catania, Italy
4 August 1945, Tacoma, Washington, USA
22 February 1928, Parkersburg, West Virginia, USA
28 October 1944, Chicago, Illinois, USA
26 December 1930, Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
24 June 1936, Everett, Massachusetts, USA
3 January 1943, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
2 April 1945, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
7 July 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
April 16, 2007
A good idea gone down the drain under Altman's spotty direction.
May 26, 2006
Most people hate this rambling, Robert Altman-directed comic strip movie, but I loved it as a kid and I still love it.
May 12, 2005
The film's not much chop, but Williams is right at home as the spinach-swallowing sailor
February 21, 2010
A lot of it is klutzier than you may remember it being, and it leads to a wretched climax involving the fakest-looking octopus since Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster.
October 23, 2004
He takes one of the most artificial and limiting of art forms -- the comic strip -- and raises it to the level of high comedy and high spirits.
January 02, 2011
An eccentric take on Popeye and friends.
August 30, 2004
A thoroughly charming, immensely appealing mess of a movie, often high-spirited and witty, occasionally pretentious and flat, sometimes robustly funny and frequently unintelligible.
April 16, 2007
It is more than faint praise to say that Popeye is far, far better than it might have been, considering the treacherous challenge it presented. But avoiding disaster is not necessarily the same as success.
July 10, 2007
I reeeeeaaaaaaalllllllyyyyyy hated this movie...
June 24, 2006
You wonder how on earth Altman did it; equally often, you feel you are watching a wacky masterpiece, the like of which you've never seen before.
July 31, 2015
Reputation be damned, Popeye is a wonderful movie, beguiling and deeply strange. It's also a stealth remake: McCabe for kids.
April 16, 2007
The plotting of this 1980 feature -- outsider in a hostile environment -- is personal to Altman, though few of the feelings survive the clutter.
