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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Language Movie Release: 1980 DVD Release: 06/24/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV - Closed Captioned Edition: Special Collection Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 53 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Superhero Film, Family-Oriented Adventure See Also: Popeye [I Love the 80's Edition]

Based on the long-running comic strip created by E.C. Segar (and less on the animated cartoons created by Max Fleischer, which were decidedly different in tone and approach), Popeye follows the sailor man with the mighty arms (played by Robin Williams in his first major film role) as he arrives in the seaside community of Sweethaven in search of his long-lost father. Popeye meets and quickly falls for the slender Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall, in the role she was born to play), but Olive's hand has already been promised to the hulking Bluto (Paul Smith), of whom Olive can say little except, well, he's large. Eventually, Popeye and Olive are brought together by Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt), an adorable foundling, and Popeye finally meets his dad, Poopdeck Pappy (Ray Walston). Director Robert Altman in no way tempered his trademark style for this big-budget family opus, crowding the screen with a variety of characters and allowing his cast to overlap as much dialogue as they want. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Robin Williams - Popeye
Shelley Duvall - Olive Oyl
Ray Walston - Poopdeck Pappy
Paul L. Smith - Bluto
Paul Dooley - Wimpy

Robert Altman's 1980 live-action adaptation of the classic cartoon Popeye gets its first DVD release with this entry in Paramount's Widescreen Collection. The essentially bare-bones disc features a widescreen transfer that preserves the film's original aspect ratio, English soundtracks in Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby Surround, a monaural French-dubbed soundtrack, English subtitles, and no bonus features. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide