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Title: Popeye (1980)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Robin Williams | ... | Popeye | |
| Shelley Duvall | ... | Olive Oyl | |
| Ray Walston | ... | Poopdeck Pappy | |
| Paul Dooley | ... | Wimpy | |
| Paul L. Smith | ... | Bluto | |
| Richard Libertini | ... | Geezil | |
| Donald Moffat | ... | The Taxman | |
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MacIntyre Dixon | ... | Cole Oyl |
| Roberta Maxwell | ... | Nana Oyl | |
| Donovan Scott | ... | Castor Oyl | |
| Allan F. Nicholls | ... | Rough House (as Allan Nicholls) | |
| Wesley Ivan Hurt | ... | Swee'pea | |
| Bill Irwin | ... | Ham Gravy, the Old Boyfriend | |
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Robert Fortier | ... | Bill Barnacle, the Town Drunk |
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David McCharen | ... | Harry Hotcash, the Gambler |
Buff sailor man Popeye arrives in an awkward seaside town called Sweethaven. There he meets Wimpy, a hamburger-loving man; Olive Oyl, the soon-to-be love of his life; and Bluto, a huge, mean pirate who is out to make Sweethaven pay for no good reason. Popeye also discovers his long-lost Pappy in the middle of it all, so with a band of his new friends, Popeye heads off to stop Bluto, and he's got the power of spinach, which Popeye detests, to bust Bluto right in the mush. Watch as Popeye mops the floor with punks in a burger joint, stops a greedy taxman, takes down a champion boxer, and even finds abandoned baby Swee'pea. He's strong to the finish 'cause he eats his spinach. Written by Dylan Self <robocoptng986127@aol.com>
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Curiously, as opposed to many other views, I came to know the "Popeye" cartoons through this movie! I remember watching it when I was a little kid, and loving it. Now, many years later, I watched it again, and I realized what a weird movie it was. It makes sense because of it's satirical attitude towards talking about everyday life and the people in the world today. But by itself, it's very incoherent and difficult to understand. People hated it, but my Dad and I found something a little bit deeper in it. I never understood why they sang a song about food. When I watched it with my Dad though, we discussed it a little further, and it finally made sense and had a profound message. "Everything is food"? Well, yes. That's life. The circle of life revolves around survival with food. Life is food, when you think deeply enough about it. It's strange, and it's made all the stranger the way it's presented in the film. But it's very true! "Popeye" takes place in the bizarre world of Seahaven, but it's really about our own world and it thinks deeply about many things that we the everyday people take for granted. When I understood that, I started to love it all over again. I was somewhat disappointed with the ending. It seemed hurried, and there wasn't a real closing statement. Since "Popeye" talked so much about the world we live in and the people who live in it, I felt there should have been something more. I liked "Popeye", but beware, it's weird and not for all tastes. You have to watch it a few times and dig a little deeper with each viewing to get the full benefit of the film.