Disney's Popeye [DVD]

Good film.robin Williams is a great actor

As expected

Great product

Sailor Popeye arrives in the small town of Sweet Haven looking for his long lost Pappy. The movie debut of the late, great Robin Williams has been unfairly described over the years as one of the worst films ever made. Directed by Robert Altman, this comedy musical is actually rather good fun with plenty of slapstick comedy and is very faithful to the original Popeye cartoon and comic strips with the characters looking like they've literally come to life. While Robin Williams would of course go on to much bigger and better things it is a good debut performance, just known at the time for TV shows Mork And Mindy and Saturday Night Live while Shelley Duvall was the bigger name giving a good performance as Popeye's girlfriend Olive Oil with Paul L Smith an actor to file under whatever happened to him menacing as bully Bluto and Ray Walston as Pappy with the film showing the origins of Popeye and it's basically a live action cartoon.

Not the sellers fault but thus is a dire film. Purchased because visited set in Malta. The set is the best part of film

Totally surreal.Shelley Duvall is Olive.Hand me my spinach .Must get back to reality and watch Eraserhead.

Bought this originally on video in Malta after visiting the film set about 20 years ago. Wanted to show my kids before we went back - they loved it, and every time we visit the film set we have to watch it again!It is an old film now, so the quality isn;t the same - and I think it was quite poor quality originally too!

I really enjoyed this film, which has lots of action, a great setting (filmed in Malta), and had convincing acting performances. Some people criticise Robin Williams' diction, which admittedly isn't easy to follow, but he is actually doing a realistic imitation of the way Popeye speaks in the cartoons. At the end Popeye eats his spinach, vanquishes arch enemy Bluto, and wins the hand of Olive Oyl in an all action sequence filmed at sea. And today if you visit Malta, you can visit the specially created film set for a day out.