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A review of this film almost has to start with the work of Wolf Kroeger, the production designer, who created an astonishingly detailed and rich set on the movie's Malta locations. Most of the action takes place in a ramshackle fishing hamlet -- "Sweethaven" -- where the streets run at crazy angles up the hillsides, and the rooming houses and ...
Aug 12, 2014 · Popeye is Williams actually acting, long before anybody knew he could act, in a movie in which nobody could have blamed him for not even hinting at the character’s frailty and humanity. The bar...
58% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 39% Audience Score 50,000+ Ratings Looking for the father (Ray Walston) who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town...
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- Robert Altman
- PG
- Robin Williams
I saw this movie as a kid and I loved it, I saw it again just the other day and I loved it even more. I try my best to watch older movies and view them as if I was still in that era. Robin Williams does an phenomenal job as Popeye as does Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl.
Popeye (Robin Williams) drops anchor in Sweethaven, a ramshackle little seaside town where the buildings are as odd as their inhabitants. He rents a room in the Oyl household, which is preparing for the upcoming engagement of daughter Olive ( Shelly Duvall ).
- Robert Altman
- M. Faust
- Ray Walston, Robin Williams, Shelley Duvall
Dec 12, 1980 · Popeye, a squinty-eyed, corncob-pipe-smoking, spinach-hating, mumbling sailor man with overly muscular forearms partly the result of genetics, has just arrived in the port town of Sweethaven. He has been sailing the seven seas in search of his father who abandoned him when he was two.
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Reviews at the time were generally negative, but the film has been more positively reappraised over time. [12] [6] [25] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 58%, based on reviews from 43 critics.
