Popeye

Why It’s Rated (549 movies items)

"Rated: PG Why it’s rated: Cartoon violence and Adult language."

Pop Culture Phenomenon Films: 80’s (810 movies items)

" Based on the comic strip, of the same name, Popeye is looking for his father, and arrives at the town of Sweethaven after a bad storm, a run down town, that has seen better days. He also meets it’s quirky inhabitants, including Olive Oly, who is engaged to the town brute Bluto, and ends out adopting a baby. Bluto kidnaps both, and is on the look out for missing pirate treasure. The film premiered on December 6, 1980 in Los Angeles, California and opened in the rest of the United States the"

Tier Ranking: The Worst Films of 1980 - 1981 (35 movies items)

"For critics, Altman's take on the iconic cartoon is messy and wildly uneven, but its robust humor and manic charm are hard. My thoughts: Robin Williams delivered a great performance, the songs were not bad, but overall it was too disjointed."

Movies I Saw In July 2021. (18 movies items)

"7/5/2021."

Films I've seen on celluloid in the digital era (250 movies items)

"FORMAT: 35mm CONDITION: ★★★★½ NOTES: Provided by the UCLA Film & Television Archive through the Robert Altman Collection; this meant that the full 114-minute cut was screened and a UK audience got to learn some more about Pappy and actually hear Popeye curse - this cut was passed with an A (proto-PG) certificate but scrapped in favour of the 97-minute cut that became Disney’s default version and ended up certified U. Feels just about equal to seeing it back in the day; dirt and vertic"

My trips to the cinema 2021 (200 movies items)

"SCREENING: 35mm, Robert Altman: American Outsider DATE: June 29th CINEMA: BFI LOCATION: Southbank"

The Big Movie Watch List of 2021 (276 movies items)

"Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who’s searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore in the fishing village of Sweethaven and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive’s fiancé, Bluto. This is one of the first live-action movie adaptations of a cartoon and it isn't that good. As soon as the town of Sweetwater broke out into song about a minute into the"

Movies I Saw In December 2020. (20 movies items)

"12/28/2020."

You know......for kids! (180 movies items)

"A baby ends nearly being killed by a octopus, but hey he'll be all right in the end! Plus, I am alone in thinking that Sweethaven is a ironic name for the town in the film? Why not Crudtown? Or Depressberg?"

Movies I Saw In September 2020. (18 movies items)

"9/4/2020."