Popeye was a great kids movie. As a kid, all I wanted was a live action version of the cartoon and I got it.
Annie (1982) is more than a great kids movie. It's a classic for all ages and one of the best films of its kind ever made. Period.
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Ummmm.......what?
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Popeye definitely does.
Ive discussed it elsewhere, possibly on the Popeye board.
The impression in Hollywood was comic strip or pulp characters of the '30s were going to be the new rage.
Officially, Doc Savage was the first one, tho it had the grievous misfortune to come out in the early seventies.
There's a youtube video posted where bits of the campiness are removed from Doc Savage and it actually watches very well.
Removing that John Phillip Sousa soundtrack for starters would help bigtime.
The success of Superman confirmed this for Hollywood.
Interestingly enough, Carol Burnett did a skit on her show about comic strips and many of the '70s Filmation cartoon characters seemed to be the target of these 'revivals'.
Burnett focused on Annie, Sheena, Prince Valiant and can't recall the fourth one.
Of the Filmation characters, in hero series and on the Waldo Kitty cartoon, there was Batman, Star Trek, Tarzan, Lone Ranger and Robin Hood.
Of all of these, Robin Hood was the only one who didn't get a movie of sorts around that time.
But Superman, Popeye, Annie were supposed to be revivals.
Then there was the Bo Derek Tarzan movie, which bombed.
Eventually there would be Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy, Alec Baldwin's The Shadow, but these were heavily removed from the Hollywood craze.
As seen with Doc Savage, Hollywood has to remove some campy idea about these characters before they can do something decent.
Still, I always liked the Popeye movie and have never understood why it was done the way it was. It's hardly Robin Williams worst role.
Popeye was just a misfire.
It's that man again!!