1980 In Review - December
Looking for the father who deserted him as a baby, a sailor named Popeye (Robin Williams) journeys to the port town of Sweethaven. Popeye befriends an assortment of eccentrics and falls in love with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall), who already has a suitor, the bully Bluto. Popeye also discovers an abandoned baby, Swee'Pea, whom he raises as his own. But when the spurned Bluto kidnaps Olive and the child, Popeye takes action, with the help of his magic spinach.
Robert Altman’s Popeye is a difficult film to review, on one hand it’s a masterful adaption of a much loved classic cartoon. The production design is second to none, with the world created looking exactly like…