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Popeye

Haves a happy holiday with me an' Olive!

1980 · 1h 54m · PG Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Directed by Robert Altman

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Overview

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 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.

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All reviews
63%
Tomatometer
Rotten

The plotting of this 1980 feature -- outsider in a hostile environment -- is personal to Altman, though few of the feelings survive the clutter.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

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.

Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh

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.

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh

A thoroughly charming, immensely appealing mess of a movie, often high-spirited and witty, occasionally pretentious and flat, sometimes robustly funny and frequently unintelligible.

Vincent Canby, New York Times
Rotten

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.

Variety

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