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Popeye By Tom Keogh
Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture
that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H
and Nashville).
So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best
as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But
it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous
sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with Olive Oyl (Shelley
Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for
mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, and Paul L. Smith makes an
impression as the oversized bully, Bluto. But this strange, disastrous
film never becomes more than an expensive workshop airing out Altmanesque
themes.
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|  | Director: Robert Altman
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| | Stars: Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall, Ray Walston, Paul Dooley, Paul Smith, Richard Libertini, Wesley Ivan Hurt, Linda Hunt, Roberta Maxwell, Donald Moffat, Bill Irwin
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| | Released: December 12, 1980
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