Taking sides: Popeye vs. Bluto

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Popeye was the star of the greatest daily comic strip in history, the initial run by Segar, and is one of the 20th Century's great fictional characters, and the Fleischer cartoons are classics. Bluto was just an uninteresting villain, a heavy straight out of the silent movie comedies.

Yes - unless he is impaled on a stake for his sickeningly cutesy film roles, which number about fifty by now.

Bluto was sexier. In the movie at least.

"He's not a mandolin, oh no, he's an accordion, I'll have to squeeze him all night just to keep him warm...he may not be the best, but he's large. And he's mine"

Pop-eye remains Robin WIlliams' best ever performance in a motion picture.

Yes, the 'Popeye' movie is v. underrated.

Very much the pre-runner of all those Tv series to motion picture / cartoon to motion piocture movies - Altman sdecided to go with an uber-stylised set and dynamic (real life cartooning). Never quite clear though who it is pitched at - much of the humour is very adult, much of what WIlliams says in incomprehensible - and the songs aren't as could as they could have been.

I also like the fact that (according to P. Biskind and others) the whole set was swimming in coke - it's like the Hollywood equiv of spinach!

The script, by Jules Feiffer, is really quite faithful to the Segar spirit (inc. that confusion between 'childish' and 'adult' play you mention Pete.) And I dig the woozy, unfocussed, self-indulgent atmos of the whole film, all zooms and long shots and mumbled dialogue - one of the last GRATE American 70s flicks.

I saw it when I was nine or so, when it came out -- hey, I liked it!

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