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List Price: $9.98Amazon.com's Price: $8.99 You Save: $0.99 (10%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9780792192909
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792192907
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 24, 2003
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 2505
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 12, 1980
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
This musical fantasy features the famous comic strip character who comes to life and tries to find his real father. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Robin Williams Shelley Duvall Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Robert Altman
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Brilliant
I watched this as a kid and now have children of my own. We watched it again last night. I must say that this film is brilliant. In the hype of contemporary special effects, over acted and over sung musicals, this film somehow captures the flavor of the cartoons, yet builds its own characters. I was hooked as a kid, and now my own kids are asking to watch it again. It is clean, morals are taught, well acted, music is on spot for the purpose. Very much a classic - Williams and Duvall are excellent. ... Read More
Rating:  - The Sailor Man with the Spinach Can!
Director Robert Altman takes a playful route in the musical comedy of this famous cartoon character, his pals and adversaries.
Robin Williams - in his movie debut - is brilliantly funny as Popeye. with Olive Oyl portrayed very well by Shelley Duvall. And Popeye is a "hit" in Sweethaven; he defeats a gang of punks in J. Wellington Wimpy's (Paul Dooley) burger bar, puts a stop to the schemes of a greedy tax-man and defeats a champion - but rules-breaking -boxer. But it's the confrontations with ... Read More
Rating: - Popeye
I've loved the movie "Popeye" for a very long time and I am giving it as a present to someone that I know will love it too.
Rating:  - One of the worst movies ever made
I kept thinking, "how could i destroy this DVD?" Robin Williams makes the perfect Popeye and Shelly Duvall the perfect Olive Oyl but man oh man is this bad.
Rating: - "Ooooooooooooo, Popeye!"
I admit it. I love this movie. Robin IS Popeye. Shelly IS Olive Oyl, even more so. The tunes are cute. The sets are outlandish and fabulous. It is humorous, a fantastic trip, and an entertaining movie. Whether you like it or not, it DID help springboard Robin into bigger things. We started to see him as a real talent and not as a comedian only. I take my hat off to the whole cast and production company.
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