Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943, Vol. 3
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Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 11/04/2008
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By 1941, Fleischer Studio was tottering on the brink of disaster. The failure of their second feature Mr. Bug Goes to Town (which opened three days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor) coupled with a bitter quarrel between Max and Dave Fleischer and a mounting debt to Paramount led to the closure of the Miami Studio. Executives at Parmount fired the Fleischer brothers, installed new management, changed the studio name to Famous, moved operations back to New York City, and cut theartists' pay. Not surprisingly, the quality of the cartoons fell. A number of the shorts in this collection are domestic comedies, with Popeye babysitting the incorrigible Poopdeck Pappy or his four identical and uninteresting nephews. It's an incongruous role for the rough and tumble sailor, and films like "Problem Pappy" and "Me Musical Nephews" recallthe joyless cartoons that turned Betty Boop into a hausfrau a few years earlier. Popeye, like Bugs Bunny, is a winner, and he isn't funny as a straight man or a fall guy. These films also lack the original vision that characterized the Fleischers' best work. "Nix on Hypnotricks" feels like an inferior remake of the classic Popeye-Olive-Bluto short "A Dream Walking," while "The Hungry Goat" borrows heavily from Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." The war-themed cartoons feature outrageous racial charicatures of the Japanese that make Warner Bros.' "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" look almost flattering. Unlike the Disney and Warners characters, who made fun of the Nazis, Popeye fought the Japanese almost exclusively. The cartoons in Popeye the Sailor, Vol.3 rank as curiosities that are more interesting to historians of animation and American popular culture than to viewers looking for laughs. (Unrated: suitable for ages 10 and older: violence, alcohol and tobacco use, offensive racial stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
(1. Problem Pappy, 2. Quiet! Pleeze, 3. Olive's Sweepstakes Ticket, 4. Flies Ain't Human, 5. Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle, 6. Olive's Boithday Presink, 7. Child Psykolojiky, 8. Pest Pilot, 9. I'll Never Crow Again, 10. The Mighty Navy, 11. Nix on Hypnotricks, 12. Kickin' the Conga 'Round, 13. Blunder Below, 14. Fleets Of Stren'th, 15. Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye, 16. Olive Oyl And Water Don't Mix, 17. Many Tanks, 18. Baby Wants a Bottleship, 19. You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, 20. Alona on the Sarong Seas, 21. A Hull of a Mess, 22. Scrap The Japs, 23. Me Musical Nephews, 24. Spinach Fer Britain, 25. Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, 26. Too Weak to Work, 27. A Jolly Good Furlough, 28. Ration Fer The Duration, 29. The Hungry Goat, 30. Happy Birthdaze, 31. Wood-Peckin', 31. Cartoons Ain't Human)
Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 11/04/2008
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By 1941, Fleischer Studio was tottering on the brink of disaster. The failure of their second feature Mr. Bug Goes to Town (which opened three days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor) coupled with a bitter quarrel between Max and Dave Fleischer and a mounting debt to Paramount led to the closure of the Miami Studio. Executives at Parmount fired the Fleischer brothers, installed new management, changed the studio name to Famous, moved operations back to New York City, and cut theartists' pay. Not surprisingly, the quality of the cartoons fell. A number of the shorts in this collection are domestic comedies, with Popeye babysitting the incorrigible Poopdeck Pappy or his four identical and uninteresting nephews. It's an incongruous role for the rough and tumble sailor, and films like "Problem Pappy" and "Me Musical Nephews" recallthe joyless cartoons that turned Betty Boop into a hausfrau a few years earlier. Popeye, like Bugs Bunny, is a winner, and he isn't funny as a straight man or a fall guy. These films also lack the original vision that characterized the Fleischers' best work. "Nix on Hypnotricks" feels like an inferior remake of the classic Popeye-Olive-Bluto short "A Dream Walking," while "The Hungry Goat" borrows heavily from Tex Avery's "Tortoise Beats Hare." The war-themed cartoons feature outrageous racial charicatures of the Japanese that make Warner Bros.' "Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips" look almost flattering. Unlike the Disney and Warners characters, who made fun of the Nazis, Popeye fought the Japanese almost exclusively. The cartoons in Popeye the Sailor, Vol.3 rank as curiosities that are more interesting to historians of animation and American popular culture than to viewers looking for laughs. (Unrated: suitable for ages 10 and older: violence, alcohol and tobacco use, offensive racial stereotypes) --Charles Solomon
(1. Problem Pappy, 2. Quiet! Pleeze, 3. Olive's Sweepstakes Ticket, 4. Flies Ain't Human, 5. Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle, 6. Olive's Boithday Presink, 7. Child Psykolojiky, 8. Pest Pilot, 9. I'll Never Crow Again, 10. The Mighty Navy, 11. Nix on Hypnotricks, 12. Kickin' the Conga 'Round, 13. Blunder Below, 14. Fleets Of Stren'th, 15. Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye, 16. Olive Oyl And Water Don't Mix, 17. Many Tanks, 18. Baby Wants a Bottleship, 19. You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, 20. Alona on the Sarong Seas, 21. A Hull of a Mess, 22. Scrap The Japs, 23. Me Musical Nephews, 24. Spinach Fer Britain, 25. Seein' Red, White 'N' Blue, 26. Too Weak to Work, 27. A Jolly Good Furlough, 28. Ration Fer The Duration, 29. The Hungry Goat, 30. Happy Birthdaze, 31. Wood-Peckin', 31. Cartoons Ain't Human)
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Rating: 
- Better than ever.
Truly great. As the two earlier volumes. Great extras. In total, worth every dollar spent. This is the real deal (Warner Brothers vol I, II & III), don't mess around with other obscure editions of popeye collections.
Rating: - Popeye the sailor vol. 3
Popeye will bring smile on you and your kids face.Don't be uptight about some of the content because it's actually refreshing to see old time cartoons like this.Very entertaining and funny.
Rating: - Popeye Blows Me Away
Superb picture quality as expected. The cartoons are fascinating as they are a product of their time period. Too many people fear the stereotyping may hurt feelings and perhaps rightly so. However, to ban these from the public is in my opinion an admission that we are not as mature today as we were back then. We certainly are more mature enough to understand that we were at war and cartoons like this was strictly propaganda. What cartoon character did not get into the battle during WWII? Bless the ... Read More
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- The Late Fleischer Era; Early Famous Era
Popeye the Sailor Volume 3 finishes up the B&W cartoons. Disc 1 starts off with more Popeye cartoons with his father Poopdeck Pappy. But as we near entering World War II, the format changes; Popeye's in the navy & is wearing navy whites.
After Baby Wants a Bottleship (the last Fleischer made Popeye cartoon), Famous Studios takes over production (or should I say Paramount kicked out the Fleischers & took control of their cartoon studio, eventually moving it back from Miami to New York). ... Read More
Rating: - Popeye in Transition
By the time Max and Dave Fleischer lost their animation studio in 1942, the best Popeye cartoons were behind them. Paramount renamed the operation Famous Studios and forged ahead, but Max and Dave's creative spark was sorely missed. Meanwhile, the advent of World War II brought the immortal sailor a welcome relief from Disney-style conformity. Not surprisingly, the wartime Popeye shorts in this 1941-43 DVD set garner the most attention. "The Mighty Navy" and "Kickin' the Conga Round" stand out among ... Read More
- Better than ever.Truly great. As the two earlier volumes. Great extras. In total, worth every dollar spent. This is the real deal (Warner Brothers vol I, II & III), don't mess around with other obscure editions of popeye collections.
- Popeye the sailor vol. 3Popeye will bring smile on you and your kids face.Don't be uptight about some of the content because it's actually refreshing to see old time cartoons like this.Very entertaining and funny.
- Popeye Blows Me AwaySuperb picture quality as expected. The cartoons are fascinating as they are a product of their time period. Too many people fear the stereotyping may hurt feelings and perhaps rightly so. However, to ban these from the public is in my opinion an admission that we are not as mature today as we were back then. We certainly are more mature enough to understand that we were at war and cartoons like this was strictly propaganda. What cartoon character did not get into the battle during WWII? Bless the ... Read More
- The Late Fleischer Era; Early Famous EraPopeye the Sailor Volume 3 finishes up the B&W cartoons. Disc 1 starts off with more Popeye cartoons with his father Poopdeck Pappy. But as we near entering World War II, the format changes; Popeye's in the navy & is wearing navy whites.
After Baby Wants a Bottleship (the last Fleischer made Popeye cartoon), Famous Studios takes over production (or should I say Paramount kicked out the Fleischers & took control of their cartoon studio, eventually moving it back from Miami to New York). ... Read More
- Popeye in TransitionBy the time Max and Dave Fleischer lost their animation studio in 1942, the best Popeye cartoons were behind them. Paramount renamed the operation Famous Studios and forged ahead, but Max and Dave's creative spark was sorely missed. Meanwhile, the advent of World War II brought the immortal sailor a welcome relief from Disney-style conformity. Not surprisingly, the wartime Popeye shorts in this 1941-43 DVD set garner the most attention. "The Mighty Navy" and "Kickin' the Conga Round" stand out among ... Read More
