I'm not sure if you ever could have made a good picture out of the Popeye cartoon or comic. The characters and general schtick of the thing work well for half an hour at most. Still, what these filmmakers gave us in the end is worse than could ever be imagined: this is a nightmarish piece of cinema, one of the worst major Hollywood productions I have ever seen.
It's almost miraculous how wrong everything went, because the casting is perfect. The sets and costumes are perfect. Such a shame the screenplay is terrible, meandering from plot point to plot point, vaguely connected and with the most ear bleeding-ly horrible "musical numbers" in between. Every piece of dialogue is mere noise, a cacophony of mumbling and screeching and pratfalls. I almost wished I were dead watching it.
How anyone could ever procure joy from this will be the eternal mystery for me. To call it unpleasant would be an understatement.
It's almost miraculous how wrong everything went, because the casting is perfect. The sets and costumes are perfect. Such a shame the screenplay is terrible, meandering from plot point to plot point, vaguely connected and with the most ear bleeding-ly horrible "musical numbers" in between. Every piece of dialogue is mere noise, a cacophony of mumbling and screeching and pratfalls. I almost wished I were dead watching it.
How anyone could ever procure joy from this will be the eternal mystery for me. To call it unpleasant would be an understatement.