| | Popeye DVD (9 Customer Reviews)
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Sensor Matic Robin Williams performs his signature physical comedy in the title role of this musical-fantasy based on E. C. Segar's comic-strip hero, which finds the spinach-eating sailor searching for his missing father, meeting Olive Oyl, and coping with the bully Bluto. The burger-happy Wimpy is also featured in the colorful cast of characters.
The classic comic strip and cartoon hero comes to life in Robert Altman's film adaptation of the adventures of the spinach-munching sailor. After he's thrown from his ship during a storm, Popeye (Robin Williams) finds refuge in a quaint seaside town. There he rents a room from the Oyls and meets their daughter Olive (the perfectly cast Shelley Duvall). Olive is engaged to Captain Bluto (Paul Smith), a bully and ruffian who is in charge of collecting taxes for the mysterious Commandant. Popeye, who was orphaned at an early age, is in the midst of a desperate search for his missing father, but what he doesn't realize is that the shipwreck has brought him unexpectedly close to his final destination. In bringing his own distinct vision to E. C. Segar's legendary hero, Altman creates an atmosphere that is breezy, loose, and filled with slapstick shenanigans. Williams portrays Popeye with a physically comic flair that is both honest and energetic--as do the rest of the cast members, including frequent Altman contributors Duvall, Paul Dooley, and David Arkin. Harry Nilsson's songs add to the lighthearted affair, making POPEYE an enjoyable family viewing experience all around.
Theatrical Release: December 12, 1980.
POPEYE was shot on location in Malta.
After a long pre-production period in which the script was passed from one director to another (including Hal Ashby, Arthur Penn and Mike Nichols), Robert Altman ended up helming the project.
Robert Evans commissioned a script from the POPEYE comic strip creator E. C. Segar and Jules Feiffer after he was outbid for the rights to the screen version of ANNIE. At one point during the development of the project, Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin were signed on as Popeye and Olive Oyl.
Ray Walston (TV's MY FAVORITE MARTIAN) appears as Poopdeck Pappy.
Popeye Reviews: "...[Duvall is] one of a number of odd, unexpected treasures....High-spirited..."-- Vincent Canby, New York Times Popeye Video | Popeye (1980) Widescreen; Special Edition; Dubbed; Subtitled |  | $9.65 |
Popeye Movie Review Average Rating: (3.8 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews POPEYE
A REAL GEM! EXCELLENT SOUNDTRACK! AND ROBIN WILLIAMS IS TOP SHELF. BLUTO IS LARGE!
Submitted by DJTHEDJ2005 (CAMBRIDGE, MASS. USA) 
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Popeye was a great movie.
I ordered Popeye for my 5 year old and he loved it and it had been a while since I saw it but it was still as good as I remembered it.
Submitted by tinkerbell19782005 (Sumter, sc)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No Popeye is a great family movie!
Language, violence, and in-your-face sensuality are virtually non-existence in this movie. Some of the songs might be corny but other than that Popeye is a good movie that you can sit down with your kids and enjoy.
Submitted by bengs (Kinta, OK, USA)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No This is Great Stuff although panned by critics
I originally saw this movie when it hit theaters. It was great then and it's still great.
It is pretty unique as movies go, but it's very well cast and perfectly portrayed. It is very much like the cartoons it was modeled after and it is entertaining in the extreme.
-TC
Submitted by tcharp1 (Lubbock, TX)
Was This Review Helpful? Yes No  excellent quality
This dvd has excellent quality. This was a hard to find item. It was shipped to me fast at a very fair price. I will buy more form this company.
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Purchase Popeye Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Menace II Society DVD (1993) Widescreen
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Vivid documentary-like anecdotes focusing on a homeboy who is a sociopathic killer and another who tells the story of how their parents' lives also fed the cycle of drug use, casual homicide and monstrous, mind-numbing violence.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re; Behind The Scenes
| | Super Mario Bros. DVD (1993)
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Nintendo video game perennials Mario and Luigi come to life as plumbers who are thrust into a parallel dimension peopled by the descendents of dinosaurs. It seems that the meteor that hit the earth 65 million years ago (in Brooklyn, no less) didn't kill the dinosaurs, but hurled them into a world in which they have developed into a species of intelligent humanoids. And it is up to the Luigi brothers to save Princess Daisy, and life as we know it, from the megalomaniacal Koopa, who wants to merge the two dimensions and rule the world that will result.
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| | T-Rock Defcon 1: Lyrical Warfare CD (2003)
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Defcon 1: Lyrical Warfare was T-Rock's third album in five months. As you might be able to imagine, it's not that the MC had such a wealth of top-shelf tracks ready to be unleashed upon the world in rapid-fire succession. Instead, he had one good album, and he chose to split up the material from that one good album onto three separate albums, with plenty of nondescript fluff added to each of the discs to maximize his profit. Like Myth of Reality and Rock Solid/4:20 before it, Defcon 1 has a handful of memorable moments that maintain his status as an accomplished, if just above average, Southern MC. ~ Andy Kellman
| | Chappelle's Show - Season 1 Uncensored DVDs (2003)
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Comic genius Dave Chappelle trains his satirical eye on the vagaries of pop culture and race relations in his outrageous Comedy Central series CHAPPELLE'S SHOW. The edgy funnyman brandishes his unique style of streetsmart comedy to skewer everything from car commercials to the KKK, blending sketches, parodies, stand-up, and musical guest performances into a hilarious sendup of modern American life. This two-volume set presents all 12 episodes from the show's first season in uncensored and unblurred versions.
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| | Blondie - Ten Episodes On DVD DVDs (2004)
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America's favorite comic strip family came to life on film and now on home video. Enjoy five episodes in this second volume of films featuring Blondie and Dagwood and the whole gang. Episodes included on this set are: "Blondie," "Blondie Meets the Boss," "Blondie Takes a Vacation," "Blondie Brings Up Baby," "Blondie on a Budget.""Blondie Has Servant Trouble," "Blondie Plays Cupid," "Blondie Goes Latin," "Blondie In Society," and "Blondie Goes to College."
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| | Lethal Weapon 2 DVD (1989) Full Frame; Widescreen
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Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the daredevil, but now he counts the odds before bucking them. This time, they must protect an accountant who has laundered a half billion dollars in narcotics money. He leads them to a murderous syndicate with ties to a foreign power. Along the way, there's a six-story plummet from a window, a booby-trapped toilet, an underwater escape, and more. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound Effects Editing.
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| | Lethal Weapon 3 DVD (1992) Widescreen
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L.A. police detectives Riggs and Murtaugh team up again to track down an ex-cop who has been smuggling guns out of impound back to gangs on the street. Days away from retirement, Murtaugh is reluctantly pushed into action by Riggs.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Dolby Digital 5.1 Re
| | Old Man And The Sea DVD (1958) Widescreen
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John Sturges's adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's short novel, often regarded as an allegory of the latter part of the writer's career, stars Spencer Tracy as Santiago, an aged Cuban fisherman who has been nearly three months without a significant haul. Heaped with ridicule by other fisherman, he once again pushes off in his decrepit ketch, hoping that this trip will finally bring success. After a time at sea he hooks a powerful marlin that drags the man's tiny craft for a couple of days. Santiago engages in an epic battle with the monster, his hands nearly cut to ribbons as he's pushed to the limit of his dwindling strength. At rest during lulls in this war, he has dreams of his stronger and younger self, only to awaken to reality. At length, through guile, experience, and endurance, he lands the hefty marlin with a harpoon and secures him to the side of his boat. But a new danger arises, in the form of a school of hungry sharks that attacks the boat, attempting to seize his catch. Tracy's work is memorable in this stagy adaptation of the well-loved literary work.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Bio/Filmographies; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Academy Awards; Behind The Scenes
| | Jungle Man DVD (1941)
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Buster Crabbe starred in many popular adventure films during the 1940s and among the most rousing is this 1941 spectacle. Fighting off lions, poisonous snakes, and headhunting natives, Crabbe stars as Dr. Robert Hammond, who heads a safari in search of the mythic City of the Dead. Incredible animal and nature photography compliment this tale of romance and heroism.
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| | My Name Is Modesty DVD (2004)
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This slick and groovy film was born in the pages of a comic by Peter O'Donnell. An orphan who was raised by a corrupt casino owner, Modesty Blaise is no stranger to a life of crime. In a room full of thugs, she will readily outfight, outsmart, and outsleuth any of them. That is, until a longtime enemy kills her surrogate father and threatens to take control of the casino. By using any means necessary, Modesty must overpower the villains, like the monomaniacal female assassin in Quentin Tarantino's artful KILL BILL. Not surprisingly, Tarantino presents this kick-ass action adventure.
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| | Perro Rabioso 3 DVD (2005)
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Jorge Reynoso stars in this third film in the vigilante action series, playing a police officer with violent tendencies who finds himself in a pitched personal battle against dangerous criminals.
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| | Little Miss Sunshine DVD (2006)
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Picked up after a well-received showing at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE is a low-budget comedy about a family road trip from Albuquerque to California. The story begins when young Olive (Abigail Breslin) is given a shot at the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, and manages to coerce her family into driving west in their worn-down VW van. Olive's father, Richard (Greg Kinnear), takes charge of the trip, while her mother, Sheryl (Toni Collette), brother Dwayne (Paul Dano), uncle Frank (Steve Carell), and eccentric grandfather (Alan Arkin) all come along for the ride. What follows resembles a budget-stricken version of PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES: seemingly endless (and hilarious) mishaps befall the family as they wind their way across the country. Couple this with the witty interplay between a well-drawn set of dysfunctional characters, and that's the LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE formula in a nutshell; all the audience needs to do is sit back and enjoy the ride.
The grainy texture of co-directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris's film may initially startle viewers unaccustomed to the indie film world. But its a testament to the cast and crew's efforts that the limitations imposed on the filmmakers are long forgotten by the end of the film. Any concerns about visual murkiness give way to belly laughs and bemusement as the road trip ends and the beauty pageant begins. Likely to have a broad appeal, Dayton and Faris's film resembles a version of NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION directed with the pithy eye of Todd Solondz (WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE), and it's to the movie's credit that it manages to successfully marry these two seemingly disparate worlds.
Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles; Director's Comments
| | Ironside - Season 1: Vol. 1 DVDs (1967)
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After starring in the 1950s classic PERRY MASON, legendary actor Raymond Burr created another indelible character with the 1960s television drama IRONSIDE. Paralyzed by a sniper's bullet and confined to a wheelchair, San Francisco police detective Robert Ironside (Burr) continued to bring down bad guys with the help of a tricked-out van and a crack team of assistants that included rookie sergeant Ed Brown (Don Galloway), beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield (Barbara Anderson), and reformed criminal Mark Sanger (Don Mitchell). Smart and suspenseful, the series distinguished itself with its disabled protagonist, a multicultural cast, an indelible theme song by composer Quincy Jones, and time-capsule plotlines that tackled '60s topics like hippies and civil rights. This collection presents the first five episodes of the nostalgic series' debut season.
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