Popeye And Son - Attack Of The Sea Hag (Animated) (DVD)

Advantages: Superb casting, faithful adaptition of comic, Altman's direction
Disadvantages: Some bad songs and dubbing, overlength, an octopus

...****************************************************************** TITLE: Popeye RATING: **** CAST: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul L. Smith, Paul Dooley, Richard Libertini, Donald Moffat, MacIntyre Dixon, Roberta Maxwell, Donovan Scott, Bill Irwin, Linda Hunt, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Van Dyke Parks. DIRECTOR: Robert Altman SCREENWRITER: Jules Fieffer RUNNING TIME: 114 min STUDIO: Paramount Pictures / Walt Disney Studios RATED: PG (US) & UK (U); for comic-book style violence. DVD AVAILABILITY: 6 GBP on Amazon; ASIN # B0002ISGAG ****************************************************************** INTRODUCTION: THE LATE, GREAT ALTMAN ****************************************************************** I?m not sure how many of you heard, though last year we lost one of our finest... Read review

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Advantages: Nice light comedy
Disadvantages: The story and most of the film in general

...Simon Sparrow is now a qualified doctor and working as an apprentice in a practice in London. He finds that not only is he doing all the work while his boss heads off to play golf but his bosses daughter is dead set on getting her hands on him. Deciding his only recourse it to run away he does the time honoured thing of escaping to sea. He manages to get a job on board a merchant navy ship... with no women on board! A trip to a port is something all the crew look forward to but on their first stop on this trip they pick up a couple of passengers, the Chairmans' daughter and her friend, a beautiful young singer. How will the arrival of two women affect all the lonely men on board? Doctor At Sea (1955) was the second of the seven Doctor films made throughout the 50's and 60's and is, like the first in the series, very typical of British... Read review

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Advantages: Nostalgic, lightly entertaining, ahead of it's time!
Disadvantages: "I got millions'o emenies. And you is 10 or 12 of 'em!"

..., in the original strip Popeye only used the added strength he gained by eating spinach once. It wasn't until he was being promoted as an animated character that this trait was exploited to make him a compelling role model for kids. In Sweet Haven, Popeye actually overcomes his childhood aversion to this healthy veg and learns to not only enjoy it, but appreciate the life-saving strength it gives him in the face of his enemies. When all is said and done, this delightful family film actually paved the way for the many many films made since that were also based on comic book characters. It was horribly panned by critics at the time, and I could never understand why! I remember thinking, "If they're smart, someone will follow their example because there are some great films waiting to be made from comic books!" This flash of insight... Read review

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