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The plotting of this 1980 feature -- outsider in a hostile environment -- is personal to Altman, though few of the feelings survive the clutter.
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.
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.
A thoroughly charming, immensely appealing mess of a movie, often high-spirited and witty, occasionally pretentious and flat, sometimes robustly funny and frequently unintelligible.
An eccentric take on Popeye and friends.
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.
I reeeeeaaaaaaalllllllyyyyyy hated this movie...
A good idea gone down the drain under Altman's spotty direction.
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.
Most people hate this rambling, Robert Altman-directed comic strip movie, but I loved it as a kid and I still love it.
The film's not much chop, but Williams is right at home as the spinach-swallowing sailor
Curious paring of Williams and Altman in a live action adaptation of the famous cartoon. Altman's odd sound techniques are not well suited for the material.
The fantastically cartoonish look isn't enough to compensate for the plodding story and overall disinterest I had in the characters.
Kooky and odd and brilliant in the most warped way imaginable.
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