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8 out of 8 people found the following review useful:
Fantastic Technicolor Highlights This 'Long' Popeye, 19 February 2007

Author: ccthemovieman-1 from United States

The artwork and dialog are the stars in this (longest-ever) 22-minutes Popeye animated short. This is one of three "longer" Popeye cartoons that were made in color back in the '30s and it's just beautiful to view. It reminded of the beautiful water color look of Bambi. I also loved all the puns and misused words that make Popeye always fun to hear. He and others use the wrong words in here frequently. I'll tell ya: you can;t beat the Technicolor of the '30s and '4- s.

Other, the main story is only so-so, about the battle for the magic lamp with the genie who grants powers. In here, it's the battle between our hero and some evil-looking dude with a Dracula-like cape. Olive Oyl, as always, has to be rescued.

The last five minutes was excellent Popeye having to use at least FOUR cans of spinach to defeat what the bad guy was using the genie to repel him. The genie was good, but you can't beat Popeye's spinach!

7 out of 7 people found the following review useful:
Popeye The Sailor Meets Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp, 1 July 2000

Author: Ron Oliver (revilorest@juno.com) from Forest Ranch, CA

A POPEYE Cartoon.

Surprise Pictures scriptwriter Olive Oyl dreams-up a film version of ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP, starring her spinach-munching boyfriend & herself.

This was the third in a series of 3 excellent two-reel cartoons, created by Max Fleischer, in which Popeye & his friends are interpolated into the classic stories of The Arabian Nights. They feature great animation and taut, fast-moving plots. Meant to be shown in movie theaters, they are miles ahead of their Saturday Morning counterparts. Jack Mercer is the voice of Popeye; Mae Questel does the honors for Olive Oyl.

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
In My Opinion, the Single Best Popeye Cartoon, 3 August 2005

Author: CalvinValjean

I agree with others here that this is the best of the three Arabian Night Shorts that were produced (the others being Popeye Meets Sinbad and Popeye Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves). It's fast-paced and Popeye, as usual, mutters some great lines under his breath ("I've never made love in Technicolor before"). Popeye is never thought of as a funny cartoon character, but he really is extremely funny ("Can you show me the entrance to the exit?").

There are also quite a few similarities to Disney's Aladdin, which would be made over 50 years later: the villain looks a bit like Jafar, the Genie is blue and a fun character, and the way Aladdin looks once disguised as a prince looks exactly like the Prince Ali sequence.

Some Popeye fans will be upset to not see Bluto or Wimpy, but at least it's great to see Popeye have a new villain for once. And finally, at just over 20 minutes, this is the longest Popeye cartoon that I know of.

A classic!

3 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
"What Can I Do For You?", 29 August 2003

Author: FuriousFreddy from Orlando, FL

The last of the triple-length Technicolor Popeye featurettes, this one is a retelling of the story of Aladdin, written by Olive Oyl as a screenplay for Surprise Pictures. "Aladdin" has less accomplished animation than the other two featurettes, but it features a better-moving and more balanced storyline. Popeye's best ad-lib, while being pressured into romance by a love-struck Princess (played by Olive): "I never made love in Technicolor before!"

3 out of 4 people found the following review useful:
Good oldie!, 15 July 2005

Author: Movie Nuttball from U.S.A.

When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious like the Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!

1 out of 1 people found the following review useful:
Popeye and his Friends Recreate the Story of Aladdin, 8 August 2002
Author: (robocoptng986127@aol.com) from U.S.A

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

[CONTAINS SPOILERS]

Olive Oyl works for a cinema studio. She writes a screenplay for the story of Aladdin and casts Popeye the Sailor as the hero. The story began many many centuries ago. A poor boy, Aladdin, made a living by making a chain. I like the part where he accidentally bent one of his metal pieces into a pretzel, because the beautiful princess, Olive Oyl, got his attention. But an evil sorcerer also got a look at the princess. He also knows the legend of the lost lamp, so he takes Aladdin to find it. He does and the sorcerer traps him in the cave, inadvertantly with the lamp. Aladdin meets the genie and wishes for a way out of the cave, so an "escalavator" appears and they're out. Next, Aladdin wishes to be a wealthy prince. All works out great until the evil sorcerer get's his hands on the lamp and has he, the princess and the castle flown away and Aladdin was to be executed by the townspeople for no particular reason. But he pulled out his spinach and raced to the rescue. He made short work of the sorcerer and he and the princess lived happily ever after. Another good Popeye cartoon. It goes in the series of Popeye

the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves. Bluto and Wimpy, who appear in those two, do not appear in this one. But I do recommend this cartoon to any Popeye fan!

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2 out of 3 people found the following review useful:
Probably the weakest in "Popeye in Arabian Nights" trilogy ,but still got enough Popeye charm to keep the audience at seats., 26 June 2006

Author: njdimic

Of the three "Popeye in the Arabian Nights" cartoons, this is my least favorite. One of the reasons are probably that I watched this more than the other two ,and the other is next... In the first two cartoons (Popeye meets Sindbad ,Popeye meets 40 thieves) ,Popeye just encounters the villains from those story lines (who are performed bu Bluto), but this is just classic hundred times seen before Aladdin story. Only in this version ,Aladdin impersonates Popeye (it supposed to be the the other way around ,I know ,but that's the truth) ,and the princess impersonates Olive. The villain is ,as known by anyone who heard the Aladdin story for just once ,the evil wizard who wants to take the magic lamp away from Aladdin and marry the princess. Unfortunately he wasn't very interesting ,he wasn't performed by Bluto ,and he didn't came up with some memorable gags or jokes. However ,Popeye and Olive still didn't lose their charm and they still managed to come up with some classic Popeye and Olive jokes. It's worth to watch this classic just for that. You like Aladdin? You love Popeye? Watch this cartoon!

Popeye the Sailor stars as Aladdin, 1 December 2009

Author: Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) from Canada

Now here is my top favorite out of the Technicolor two-reel "Popeye Specials," besides Popeye meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves from 1937.

In this short, Olive works in a movie studio story department, working out a script based on the Aladdin story; with Popeye as Aladdin and herself as the "beautiful" princess, and the baddie in this Popeye toon, who surprisingly is not Bluto, but a mean vazir/sorcerer.

And as she types, her story adaptation comes to life on the screen, showing Aladdin (Popeye) a lowly pauper working in a junk shop, who has his eye on the Princess Olive. The baddie, deceives Aladdin into retrieving the magical lamp from a dangerous cave for the Princess. After Aladdin succeeds, the bad guy steals the lamp and traps Aladdin in the cave. In doing so, however, he also clumsily traps the lamp. Aladdin accidentally discovers the powers of the Genie within the lamp and the fun begins. Aladdin wished to be a wealthy prince so he could give money to the poor and impress the princess, so she will agree to marry him. Naturally, she agree to marry Aladdin; but little did he not know the vizar notice he survived, and when Aladdin left the palace to ask his friends to the wedding he accidentally dropped the magic lamp on the balcony. Seeing his chance at stealing the lamp, the vizar disguise himself as a peddler, trading new lamps for old. And the princess, thinking the magic lamp is a piece of junk, send a servant woman to trade it for a flashlight; so the vazir got the magic lamp, but his plans are not yet completed.

The next day, the people were celebrating the engagement of Aladdin and the Princess; but the vazir, who now owns the magic lamp, commands the genie to carry the palace to a distant land. So in doing this, Aladdin's princely robes and horse were gone, and the people, seeing that Aladdin was a fraud, sentence Aladdin to be crushed by giant stone. But Aladdin prevails at the end, naturally, but this time it takes FOUR cans of spinach to save himself, the princess, defeat the vazir, and bring the palace home to live happily ever after; with a little genie magic of course. But in reality, Olive receive a notice of termination, and her story rejected....oh well, C'est La Vie.

Anyway, I love this beautifully, colorful, animated short from beginning to end.

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