Customer Reviews:
Cheap and exceedingly cheerful.......2004-12-11
This my friends is an exceedingly cheap DVD - as indeed, considering the availability of the material on it (can anyone say "public domain"?) it probably should be.
Don't be fooled. The quality of the cartoons on this disc both in content and transfer is as good as I've seen for a long time.
This disc contains the 3 colour Fleischers (Sindbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin) as well as a number of Famous / Paramount cartoons that while being derivative, are quite good. Some even have their original Paramount titles, although most bear the a-a-p logo.
The disc is worth buying for what are quite good prints of the Fleischer colour Popeyes ALONE. The others (amongst which you will find "Ancient Fistory","Gopher Spinach","Bride and Gloom") include one called Sindbad the Bad which is interesting in that it shows quite clearly the shift in taste between 1936 (Popeye meets Sindbad the Sailor) and the early 50's. It lifts a lot of clips from the earlier film (as did many Paramounts!) but unlike it's predecessor is clearly made for children...no double meanings.... and the clips have been used to remove the ethnic humour implicit in Boola the giant's Italian immigrant accents "I make-a for you to like chicken fricasissees!" and inter-head squabbling. In the later cartoon Boola does not speak at all...he certainly doesn't do the yodelling lullaby during which he punches Popeye repeatedly in the head.
Parents beware...if you dislike casual violence, cartoons of the 1930's are NOT for you.
But if what I said above makes no sense to you, or you haven't seen what the Fleischers could do with colour (and a form of multiplane using 3-D foregrounds!) do yourself a favour and BUY THIS DISC.
then
WATCH THIS DISC.
There. simple enough for ya? Yuk-yuk-yuk-yuk-yuk!
Customer Reviews:
Popeye 75th anniversary collectors edition.......2004-05-20
This dvd set is good for the kids but for fans of the sailor or Popeye purists this is the 1960's King Features Syndicate popeye cartoons that were made for television and not the 30's Fleisher cartoons that you would expect with the title, but still well worth the price for a trip down memory lane.
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The Popeye Collection
Popeye The Sailor
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POPEYE - VOLUME 2 (ME MUSICAL NEPHEWS) [2004]
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POPEYE - VOLUME 1 (WITH LITTLE SWEE' PEA) [2004]
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POPEYE - VOLUME 3 (GOPHER SPINACH) [2004]
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