Popeye

Roger Ebert

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. ( Read More )

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. ( Read More )

Geoff Andrew

You wonder how on earth Altman did it; equally often, you feel you are watching a wacky masterpiece, the like of which youve never seen before. ( Read More )

Eric Henderson

If you strip away the films loyalty to its source material, its not difficult to see that, in many ways, Popeye is Altmans comic spin on McCabe & Mrs. Miller. ( Read More )

Rob Gonsalves

A lot of it is klutzier than you may remember it being, and it leads to a wretched climax involving the fakest looking octopus since Ed Woods Bride of the Monster. ( Read More )