Popeye - re:Visit

[@christopherparks6433]

It’s so cute when Rich gets to talk about watching his childhood cartoons. It really puts The Great Depression in perspective!

[@nerfherder1398]

Is that what we're calling him now?

[@Benjamin.Jamin.]

Those Americans were lucky. All we had in England in the early 80s were documentaries about telegraph poles and VHS tapes cost £2 and 3 shillings, which is $3,672 USD in today's money.

[@TheLakabanzaichrg]

Rich Evan's autobiography's working title

[@white-dragon4424]

@@Benjamin.Jamin. Shillings? Decimalisation took place in the early 70's.

[@chartreux1532]

Thanks for making me feel old, despite being born in 1986, wait, that's considered being old nowadays by those damn Zoomers too isn't it? Either way, Here in Germany Popeye was HUGE. In fact, pretty much everyone from my Generation still eats Spinach at least once a Week. More so because of the Cartoon but the Movie always played on Christmas Eve here in Germany for some Reason. And yes, i'm still a huge Spinach Afficionado, fight me! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

[@erikbrobyn9763]

I can envision a 4 year old Jay muttering "the tone of this film is throwing me off"

[@DeltaSpark8]

Now imagine a 4-year-old Jay saying "This is borderline experimental"

[@ignacius8466]

Kyle Gallner will play him in the RLM tell all Netflix film.

[@KarazolaX]

@@DeltaSpark8 But he wasn't four years old in 2001...

[@jench78]

but can you imagine it?

[@martyjehovah]

what if the vague sense confusion that he couldn't quite grasp while watching one of (if not the) first movies he ever saw was what led him to pay attention to details very early on, and that habit borne out of trying to make sense of nonsense molded his lifelong love of film. I will assume this is a fact from now on.

[@raymondrjstanford]

This channel is the Death Note of KZbin.

[@hopefullynotbutprobably6643]

Who else did they kill?

[@raymondrjstanford]

@@hopefullynotbutprobably6643 From the top of my head, Jerry Springer and Betty White. Those two young upstarts.

[@RettMikhal]

@@hopefullynotbutprobably6643 Shelly Duvall

[@RettMikhal]

@@raymondrjstanford Hey Ordinary Things posted a video calling Henry Kissinger an immortal lich.... an HOUR before he died.

[@GigglyFunGirl03]

@@raymondrjstanfordWilford Brimley.

[@vinesauce]

I was scared of this movie as a kid. I thought Popeye's arms were real and that it could happen to me

[@sunnysurfer101MA]

sup Vinny. Get on BOTW already

[@J3bus]

Did you thought If you work out hard enough that you’ll have massive Popeye forearms?

[@dickdastardlyrichard1014]

Binty pls plae Popeye for Switch, is best in game

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Completely understandable. I watched Pinocchio 3000 as a small lad and lived with the fear of becoming like those horribly distorted, metallic looking characters.

[@PHUZface1]

if you swing around the Buster sword enough itll happen to you!

[@Infusions]

Finally, they reviewed the 1980 live-action Popeye film. Now I can unsubscribe.

[@MercurialStatic]

It’s the end, boys; last one out turn off the lights.

[@FlymanMS]

Don't forget to cancel your patreon subscription too and send them back all their hackfraud merch.

[@Lyger101]

And so my watch now ends...

[@FriendZone75]

I'm returning all of my Space Cop merch. It'll leave a Rich Evans-sized hole in my heart, but it'll be worth it.

[@LumpyAdams]

I actually had Popeye on my RLM bingo card. Can't believe you didn't see the signs.

[@apache8795]

I can't belive RLM killed Shelley Duvall

[@etsequentia6765]

Not Lily Tomlin though. Or Jane Fonda. Yet.

[@Matty272]

Someone had to….

[@TheJakescott1515]

They also retired Bruce Willis

[@geohawk6337]

KZbin, Show me a man who enthusiastically retells the origins of Popeye wearing a Nirvana T-shirt.

[@johnpinneriv9958]

Popeye wore a Nirvana t-shirt??

[@bebimeta3697]

"Come as I yam, as what I yam, all what I yam, is aaaall I evers will be. *random mumbling*"

[@timothyyoung6225]

Popeye mumbled so Nirvana could grumble

[@StuffedCrocodile]

rich evans is the main character

[@PizzaguyJeff]

Your program is ready. You may proceed. *Holodeck doors open*

[@JazzySpF]

Popeye once punched a bull so hard it turned into a fully functioning butcher shop. He’s great.

[@KnuckleHunkybuck]

They always did have some clever gags in Popeye. Yes, I'm old.

[@mush01]

At the end of the 1933 film Wild Elephinks, Popeye hammer throws an elephant onto a neighbouring (and clearly inhabited) island with such force that the island sinks, presumably killing everyone on it.

[@Csetnikke]

He could shoot planes with an AA gun firing from the shoulder on a battleship💪

[@theboxcaradventurer1874]

​@@mush01holy shit, Popeye is a war criminal.

[@Virjunior01]

He's literally the inspiration for the Chuck Norris memes

[@Tibaes93]

THE CURSE OF THE RED HAS STRUCK AGAIN!!! TODAY SHELLEY DUVAL, "OLIVE OYL" HAS PASSED AWAY AT 75 YEARS OLD!!

[@thexgp84]

I CAME HERE TO SAY THIS!!!

[@DreamwalkerFilms]

Wanna know something even weirder? I just watched this movie TODAY, this morning, BECAUSE I saw this re:view in my feed. I had NO idea.

[@solomonstillthebest5737]

RIP Shelly.

[@theactualTVB]

RIP Shelley Duvall F

[@autumntaylor2533]

NOOOOO

[@IBeCthulhu]

Jay sounds like he's secretly actually really into Garfield

[@sykotikOG]

I honestly thought that picture of the collection was his, no lie.

[@ND-nr6mx]

Aren't we all?

[@jackiespaceman]

“Secretly”?

[@Pimploaf_YTP]

Really into Garfield or really INTO Garfield?

[@ApotheosisCM]

How could he be? Jay kills cats.

[@Jaggith]

When i was in Malta, we went on a bus tour, and the guide said "thats where the popeye was filmed, no one goes there, we havent torn it down yet for some reason".

[@CrudeBuster]

was the guide some guy named jay bauman?

[@conchureify]

I went!

[@kvasirsblood1107]

I went to Malta in 2019 and the village was there. I didn’t go in but saw it from across the way 😂

[@luckyspurs]

Sounds like Storror need to make a hide and seek video there.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

I thought Popeye's Village was operated as a theme park now.

[@KerenskyLI]

Curse of the Worst strikes again. RIP Shelley Duvall two weeks after this video's debut.

[@cadkoger]

Rich having an advanced degree in the Popeye Comic Universe is so on brand.

[@verydaizey7790]

its pretty common knowledge for people over a certain age.. im in my 20s and still grew up with these

[@pete_lind]

We had similar comic in Co-op magazine, Pekka Puupää 1925-1975 , they even made 13 movies between 1953-60, tried again in 1985 - 88 with 3 movie .

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

​@@verydaizey7790yeah in the 1920's

[@jeanmckeon6899]

He's only 3.5 years older than me:) Love & miss u Dickie!!!

[@daniloxs]

14:35 Sony actually passed on Popeye’s animated movie so they could focus on the production and release of The emoji movie

[@bjchit]

Remember, these are the same people who rereleased Morbius because everyone on the internet was clowning on it.

[@zanpakutoman4225]

I was thinking about commenting this, so thanks for getting to it first. Although another piece of information I want to include is that the whole Popeye animated movie ended up leaking. It's basically a very early animatic, but it has voice acting and gives you an idea of the what the whole film would've been. Or at least, what they had planned before ceasing production.

[@dupersuper1938]

The world is broken.

[@ProfessorWeekend]

Look man, Chris Pratt was just too busy that year to play Popeye in The Popeye Movie.

[@davidlevy706]

@@bjchit When it's Morbin' time, it's Morbin' time.

[@andresguerrero5586]

They did it again. Good job, guys. Rest in peace Shelley Duvall🙏🏼

[@TheAdarkerglow]

I mean, Popeye muttering nonsense is actually part of the character. I recall distinctly, in Popeye meets Ali Baba and the 40 thieves, he says, "Awful lot of sand around here, if I had some bread I could make a Sandwich, course then I'd need a witch."

[@graphicsgod]

OMG I had this movie on VHS when I was a kid!!

[@sykotikOG]

The old Popeye cartoons had some bangers. Betty Boop too! Male bothering her: "Mind if I smoke?" Betty Boop: "Don't care if ya burn." OOOOOOO GURRRRRRL GET ON WITCHYOSELF

[@ND-nr6mx]

Part of the character yeah, but paying several dollars to see a real person incoherently muttering while ten other people talk over them doesn't really translate well.

[@Fiveash-Art]

@@ND-nr6mx When I was a kid I loved the Popeye movie. They used to play that thing on HBO all the time.

[@Virjunior01]

I still have that on VHS I think

[@chrismcclure4264]

No character is more needed in these uncertain times than a weird sailor that smokes a pipe, grumbles incoherently, and eats spinach. Thank you gentlemen. Your work on Earth is complete.

[@aremel42]

The modern remake will have him using Gen Alpha skibidi slang, eating kale, while ripping fat vape clouds.

[@chrismcclure4264]

@@aremel42 you have my attention...

[@garrettmetting6938]

​@@aremel42oh please popeye was a vegan way before it was cool. He literally only eats spinach

[@chartreux1532]

"Damn Right Brother!" as i imagine Americans talk like. But seriously, here in Germany Popeye was HUGE. In fact, pretty much everyone from my Generation still eats Spinach at least once a Week. More so because of the Cartoon but the Movie always played on Christmas Eve here in Germany for some Reason. And yes, i'm still a huge Spinach Afficionado, fight me! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

[@lordlithegreenxiii6140]

​@@aremel42 doesnt Popeye already say "skibidi"

[@elderscrolls69420]

Shelley Duvall was such a wonderful and talented woman. There will never be another one like her. RIP Shelley 💔

[@gonzoGnostalgic]

God bless Rich Evans for going to bat against Jay's "nobody likes Popeye" opening statement. I had DVD collections of Popeye cartoons as a kid. Back then, I liked him because he made silly noises and looked like my grandpa. Now I like him for those same reasons + nostalgia + genuinely amazing animation and physical comedy. Popeye rules.

[@QualityCandor]

That caught me SO off guard. Like what hipster-ass thing to say (which considering it's Jay we're talking about lol). The slapstick in those classic Fleischer shorts alone makes him a character worth remembering and the whole world is such an endlessly charming one.

[@dsanderlin]

First of all me and my brother LOVE this movie and Popeye 😂 the mumbling is how they spoke in the cartoon

[@ProfessorWeekend]

Popeye is great, but I think Jay was more trying to say that nobody cares about Popeye or thinks about popeye. Nobody is out there screaming that a bad Popeye video game ruined their childhood. This contrasts with a cynical marketing mascot like Scooby Doo, which people think about and get mad about all the time. Even though in 50 years and like 100 different series and movies, there's only like a cumulative 10 hours of Scooby Doo content that's actually good. People like Popeye but don't care. People hate Scooby doo, and care a lot.

[@FirstNameLastName-rs6qo]

The early black & white Popeye cartoons are fantastic.

[@ND-nr6mx]

​@@ProfessorWeekendHey now, I'm sure I could pull up at least 50 hours of good Scooby-Doo content. Don't go slandering my favorite boy.

[@TheDrugOfTheNation]

Robin Williams once said if you watch this backwards it has a happy ending.

[@Thewingkongexchange]

If you play it backwards and listen closely, you can almost make out the characters' dialogue.

[@BanjoBreakdown1]

No, he said if you watch it backwards, it has an ending (as in watched forwards it just sort of peters out with no logical conclusion). He's often misquoted as saying if you watch it backwards, it has a plot, which I think gets the idea across a bit better.

[@Su_aSponte]

I miss him. What a brilliantly bright person he was. RIP

[@popeyethepirate2902]

​@@Su_aSpontehe went out like david carradine.

[@luckyspurs]

It's a film about a man losing his love for spinach. A timeless story for the ages.

[@Paul136]

RLM curse takes another :( Rip Shelley Duvall

[@Castlependragon]

My favorite part of this movie is the fact that Shelley Duvall was so well liked by other actors in Hollywood that when she suggested the idea for Faerie Tale Theatre, Robin Williams and a dozen others signed on immediately. They loved the idea and they loved her😊

[@ColeslawVariant]

I've been watching episodes of FTT on youtube, Aladdin stood out, mostly for James Earl Jones as the genie.

[@Teeveepicksures]

Rumpelstiltskin SCARED me

[@Matt42MSG]

We need more content like Faerie Tale Theatre.

[@yerocb]

Totally forgot about that show. It was amazing.

[@VivaVinoTinto]

@@TeeveepicksuresWas that the one with the scary radish? If so, same.

[@lotsofrenee]

"Everything's kind of great... Except for the movie" What a great pull quote for the back of the box

[@haydens9808]

That was the most Redlettermedia line ever spoken.

[@Duker_Dude]

Rich's favorite movie as a kid was about incomprehensible mumbling characters. Interesting...

[@pogglywoggly3292]

He picked up every detail and analyzed every word... huh...

[@trumulletman]

It's why he's so gifted at predicting terrible movies

[@pants989]

jay's "shut up!" during robot in the family is iconic

[@acquiredfilms5400]

Hearing Rich say the word “banger” aged me about 20 years.

[@kostajovanovic3711]

Now you are the same age!

[@DeflatingAtheism]

Ham Gravy is goated with the sauce, no cap.

[@Dschonathan]

I am bumping that shit, respectfully, no hesi

[@turnthonkee]

@@DeflatingAtheism this killed me for no reason 😂

[@jean-paulgagnon8479]

RIP Shelley Duvall. RLM reaps another.

[@MrJohnsonDeluxe]

The only other instance I can think of casting perfection on the level of Shelley Duvall/Olive Oyl, is JK Simmons/J. Jonah Jamieson. Can't be beat.

[@TheRolandS69]

Came here to say that.

[@SkullMan---]

Also Frasier as Beast

[@HellecticMojo]

​@@SkullMan---The entire X men franchise is full of perfect castings ruined by awful scripts. Xavier, Magneto, Wolverine

[@mrramble8438]

Ron Perlman as Hellboy

[@mrramble8438]

Chris Evans as Cap?

[@maybeitsmir]

Regarding the Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye footage, it's even worse - It was rejected in favor of The Emoji Movie

[@russellharrell2747]

Um…wow. This timeline sucks.

[@jeremybaker5452]

@@russellharrell2747 wow thats so deppresing. All these hollywood studios suck ass.

[@JoeChillton]

Amy Pascal logic Ghostbusters reboot Madame Web Venom Morbius So on

[@rickardkaufman3988]

@@JoeChillton She's the reason why David Fincher and Rooney Mara never got a chance to finish off their plans for a Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy.

[@ManOutofTime913]

What a great business decision.

[@Slasher979]

Shelly just passed. The RLM curse continues

[@gabroy3371]

Which other actor did the curse struck? I'm curious

[@madalinam6183]

​@gabroy3371 Kirk Douglas, I think. Eventually, they got the diabetes guy, too (I'll come back and edit this if I find his name)

[@lithographer]

@@gabroy3371 shelley Duvall Leslie Jordan Jerry Springer Bernard Hill betty white henry kissinger Mr.Smash Mouth steve harwell Dan Haggerty Prince (deathstalker) Bill Paxton Don Rickles the goat Wilford Brimley to name a few

[@cameronmattingly8802]

Betty white

[@Eron55555]

What is the RLM curse?

[@diegothunderhawk6823]

The "Baby Oyl" line is legitimately hilarious. 😂

[@calfowler6838]

Goat line 😂

[@Livingroomset799Dep]

A sub-30 minute RedLetterMedia video? What is this, 2003? Have my pizza rolls arrived yet?

[@patrickhamilton6677]

Lmfao

[@playedout148]

Even at 28:20, that was stretching it. Has RLM hit rock bottom? I haven't noticed a drop off but sometimes great athletes just fall off a cliff.

[@graphicsgod]

Well the famous Rich Evans dropped off when he joined RLM.. Since he's joined he's died 3 or 4 times from AIDS and diabetes, and been replaced with a robot.

[@ND-nr6mx]

Nah they're still baking, but mom will come get you when they're ready. Go back to your Halo LAN party, it'll be okay.

[@walterworrall]

You have to go to their webzone for that.

[@behamut92]

My headcannon is that Shelly Duvall was waiting for RLM to make a Popeye Re:Visit episode on her dead bed and Rich Evans visited her ala Make a Wish on her last days to see it together.

[@ewantaylor2758]

"Everything's great except for the movie" is a brilliant line

[@grahamwade5932]

Haha 😄

[@davegrand6793]

The chaotic nature of the scenes with a bunch of characters and everybody talking and Popeye mumbling and occasionally laughing and Olive saying, "OH!" and all the goofy slapstick humor is right out of the 1930s black and white Popeye cartoons. They actually achieved that very well. My grandmother took me to see this in the theater during its original release. She was absolutely stunned that live actors could be as goofy as cartoon characters.

[@mattneylon1321]

Exactly. This movie is brilliant because it nails the cartoons perfectly. When Jay says he doesn’t expect a Popeye movie to be mumble talking and brown drab shacks, what is he expecting and why? Those cartoons were all mumbling characters in a town of beaten up drab shacks. It’s perfect.

[@andrewmaximo4485]

I wonder if robert altman was picked to direct this movie because of that.

[@DeflatingAtheism]

But something that works in a cartoon has no guarantee of working in live action, so they can recreate it perfectly with zero artistic payoff.

[@Adino1]

@@mattneylon1321 I feel like Jay really didn't get a lot of what was going on with this movie.

[@TheTuttle99]

​@@DeflatingAtheismhuuhhhhhhh?

[@4GroundM1n1atuR3s]

Well done. They've killed Shelley Duval too.

[@087Alfred]

I've got my spinach and rich evans body pillow, im ready to watch!

[@Pimploaf_YTP]

Try not to reach through the screen! Here we GOOOOO!

[@087Alfred]

@@Pimploaf_YTP Olive Oyl is definitely a top ten babe

[@pittland44]

Where do I get a Rich Evans pillow?

[@Dethmaster64]

@@087AlfredOlive Oyl is the size of an average human mother

[@nicholasarmstrong643]

Wait, it's okay, but do you have a Rich Evans body pillow too? I didn't know there was another.

[@nevsnks]

Hey so I live in Malta (the country where the set was built in and the film was shot here) and the set is now a glorious tourist trap, I have distinct memories of visiting it when I was young and it had a fairly glum atmosphere which is fitting considering the tone of the film, you can still visit it today and it's a pretty big "historical" landmark here, everyone has at least a few memories of visiting it when they were young.

[@Su_aSponte]

Coool

[@cliffarroyo9554]

I've spent 4 of the last 5 Christmas holidays in Malta (and a few other visits as well) and I've so far resisted the urge to see the Popeye Village (though once was on a bus that stopped there).

[@sluglife9785]

Midnight Express was also filmed in Malta. Can I tour Fort St. Elmo which served as the prison set?

[@legomaniacsss]

Oh shit, im in Malta right now

[@coinopanimator]

I remember visiting it when I was a kid. Magical islands.

[@JachymorDota]

You can say about that movie what you want (as you already did), but there is something so magical about building a harbor village, having silly puppets as "stuntmen" and just people running around. They don't make movies today like they used to.

[@turnthonkee]

Movies don't have sets anymore, or ensembles, or extras, or practical effects/gags, or _anything._ I recently watched Les Miserable, and while it had a lot of rough patches, you could tell the budget and time spent was with love & care. They tried. Nobody else does anymore in big budget movies, save for the $60m~ A24 movies (but thats nothing compared to the wasted $ on Disney).

[@shawnbrewer7]

I like it when RLM reviews movies. Reminds me of the good old days.

[@mattturner5429]

Seriously, what happened? Where are the reviews for Godzilla Minus One and Dune 2?

[@Around_blax_dont_relax]

​@@mattturner5429"talk about things i want you to talk about"

[@mattturner5429]

@@Around_blax_dont_relax More like "Go back to doing the thing that grew your channel and made you popular to begin with, which was reviewing movies."

[@gregofcanada4494]

​@@mattturner5429 Do you remember it?

[@Around_blax_dont_relax]

@@mattturner5429 or how about you get over being 11 years old and realize they are gonna do what they want and you dont control them? You know what made them popular? Doing whatever they want

[@SportsRadio]

Rich isn't an expert on Popeye. He just knows everything about it.

[@ajgrubert]

As far as I'm concerned, RLM killed Shelley Duvall RIP

[@chrisadkins8321]

Popeye is one of those movies where you can see it once, and then sporadically through the rest of your life you’ll remember it out of nowhere and think ‘did that really happen, or did I dream it?’

[@HELLDAD.]

Facts dude. I watched the first 2/3 of this movie like 3 months ago. I turned it off before it ended because it felt like it was giving me a fever. Ever since then I'll think of some bit from it and it feels like a distant childhood memory. Like it went back and inserted itself into my childhood.

[@TheArmedHermit]

The whole movie has a very fever dream quality. One of the reasons I love it so much.

[@luckyspurs]

For me that's the 1958 Tom Thumb movie which I watched as a 7 year old in 1997, because it was randomly on BBC 2. Like, what the hell was that.

[@TerrenceNowicki]

It's worth watching again decades later.

[@andrewmaximo4485]

I think his last movie before Popeye was 3 women. Switching from the head space of directing a semi-surrealistic drama to a family movie based on a famous cartoon may have contributed to that lol.

[@odinhonour2170]

I think Shelly's performance is the single best representation of a cartoon character that will ever be in a movie

[@bobjagger1]

Rest in Peace Shelley Duvall! I had never seen this movie and watched it only to enjoy this revisit more, being a huge fan of the Shining and McCabe and Mrs. Miller, I was really happy to see her in this. As they say in the video, she really knocked it out of the park, I can only think of JK Simmons' J.Jonah Jameson as someone who equally could find no equal to embody a specific comicbook character. Also really happy I got to see it before she passed so I wasn't bummed out about it. Thank you for the great revisit with fortunate timing to the redletter gang and thank you for your vibrant inspiring performances Mrs. Duvall.

[@samrightnow]

Popeye is why canned spinach was my favorite food as a child. My friends in school thought I was a weirdo. Which I was. And am.

[@cg98243]

You're strong to the finich now though.

[@Matt_Barkley]

You yam what you yam. Bad joke aside it was the same for me. I still love spinach.

[@RarebitFiends]

Haha, perhaps we should form a club of spinach eating Popeye watchers. That was my childhood too... still love spinach.

[@gitarkin]

The pipe probably weirded them out more tbh

[@spikescafe3940]

Spinach was thought to be a super-food for many years due to a misplaced decimal point by Erich Von Wolfe, saying it contains 10x more iron than it does.

[@PKFireFawx]

i think the tons and tons of muttering and talking over others in this movie is an attempt to really capture the feel of those old popeye cartoons. in them, popeye is ALWAYS muttering some sassy remarks under his breath inbetween his bigger lines.

[@kdkseven]

The really old black and white ones are so great, and pretty much all the dialogue is mumbled and throw-away. Not so much funny, but fun and captivating. I thought the movie did a decent job capturing that.

[@thepants1450]

"i never made love in technicolor before"

[@robm1461]

You murdered another one. Poor Shelly Duvall never had a chance once you guys made a video on her. R.I.P

[@rolandoftheeld]

I think "He's Large" is a genuinely funny parody of insipid love songs in musicals. I just don't know if it was supposed to be.

[@crokkadoodledoo9956]

there was alotta weirdness and undertones with the movie and musical numbers/songs if you can even call them that.

[@DTKloves8]

Yeah that's the one that feels the most "on purpose", and it still doesn't really feel like it was on purpose 😂

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Yeah, Olive is trying to figure out *GOOD* reasons to like Bltuo but the only positive she can come up with is 'he's large'.

[@Virjunior01]

@@crokkadoodledoo9956 I honestly liked the Oxblood Oxheart Sweet Haven one... it was like a boxer coming out to somber funeral music with a procession

[@ProfessorWeekend]

Look at it this way: They supposedly shot footage of Olive Oil sitting on a bed and repeatedly saying things like "He's large" and "He's Virile" before they had decided those were going to be lyrics in a song. How does that even happen? Was she just doing multiple takes and they strung them together?

[@chartreux1532]

Here in Germany Popeye was HUGE. In fact, pretty much everyone from my Generation still eats Spinach at least once a Week. More so because of the Cartoon but the Movie always played on Christmas Eve here in Germany for some Reason. And yes, i'm still a huge Spinach Afficionado, fight me! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps

[@countzero7338]

True. I have never seen the movie but I remember the cartoons from my childhood in the 80s. Greetings from Hamburg in...well, Hamburg.

[@juniorjames7076]

I'm GenX. I first saw this (heavily edited for television) on NBC in the early 1980s. I was only 11 or 12 but its the first time I felt I was watching a masterpiece of comedy and performance that NOBODY was going to appreciate!! I have loved this film forever and THIS film made me a life long fan of Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall who perform as if trained the ancient European tradition of Troubadour Clowns. Masterclass performances.

[@user-bx9il4qt9w]

Do the Niemcy who love Popeye realise that he's based on a real life Polak? 😅

[@m.d.204]

I never knew this movie existed until this RLM video, so I don't know what you're talking about?! I'm a millennial though, maybe I'm too young? That being said, I did love eating spinach as a kid because of Popeye.

[@BoSmith7045]

Popeye was one of my heroes as a little boy so I would force myself to eat those vile, evil, soggy piles of green hate that came out of a can. Thank God I discovered that raw fresh spinach is awesome and keep a few bags of in the fridge. Sadly I also kinda look like Popeye now.😞

[@hitfan2000]

When I saw that RLM was doing a review of Popeye in my KZbin feed, it brought back a memory of my Dad take me and my brother to go see it. Miss you Dad (RIP).

[@adobecult]

how have i never realized that popeye came out the same year as the shining. what a wild year for shelley duvall

[@charleselmore4707]

Rich was the true hero, here, today - standing up for Popeye :-)

[@johngalvano5895]

I was impressed by his knowledge

[@brickhead9111]

Massive cartoon nerd here, the constant character mumbling over each other/improv seems to be like a callback to the original Fleschier shorts of the 30s and early 40s where the voice actors didn’t necessarily have a script or boards of the cartoon but recorded their lines while watching it. This led to a lot of scenes of the characters talking over each other while their mouths weren’t lip-synced.

[@davidlevy706]

I'm seriously wondering whether Jay doesn't realize how much Popeye mumbled in the animated cartoons.

[@47drift]

​@@davidlevy706 He's an anti-cartoon snob. It becomes very apparent the longer you watch RLM. The only cartoon he's given a chance in the last twenty years is the most recent TMNT film.

[@rayortiz313]

@@davidlevy706 I don't think he did- - the stream-of-consciousness mumblings and overlapping dialogue were part of the original black-and-whites, much less so in the later color cartoons that folks are more familiar with. I can actually imagine Robert Altman watching the original cartoons and saying "I can do this ".

[@adder2488]

@@47drifthe’s a fan of the spiderverse films.

[@PugsMalone]

@@ianpatrickmchugh787 Pfeiffer wrote the introduction to a Popeye collection I’m reading and he said that the only think he liked about the cartoons were the voices.

[@walternelson2687]

Get bent Jay. There are few fictional characters that could match Popeye's Power Level.

[@ND-nr6mx]

He's the perfect example of guys who drop out of the Fandom but still think they represent everything about it. Let's see him attend any local anime con and say that shit out loud, he'd have every Popeye cosplayer in the tri-state area lined up wheeling their fists at him.

[@JacobPaul-ix7oc]

@My-cat-is-staring-at-you Death Battle did a Saitama vs Popeye video a couple of years ago. Popeye won. lol

[@kcsnipes]

He-man, one punch man, Superman and goku ?

[@Kders]

Saitama just wants to know if the spinach is on special offer at the store

[@russellharrell2747]

@@KingThrillgoreDonald Duck Vs Popeye would end the multiverse.

[@trevorbarton6570]

I love this movie, the creative decisions they made are so strange. Like you said, there is no way something like this will ever be made again. The Harry Nilsson soundtrack just pushes it over the edge into such absurdity. I went to Malta to visit the set a few years back, and the farmer that owned the land where they filmed it has basically tried to turn it into a Maltese Disneyland... but for a Robert Altman Popeye film. It was so surreal being there. You can go and eat a hamburger in the actual set while "Everything is food food food" drones on and on over the speaker. I can't think of another film where this is possible. A 10/10, top life experience for me.

[@Joseph-ku7eb]

This is so strange. I've been an RLM fan for years, and literally the week I've come to Malta and visited the Popeye Village (the set is now a tourist attraction with walk-around characters and exhibits/shows in the buildings) is the week they've released this. I thought I was hallucinating from the heat when I saw Rich's face in the thumbnail.

[@vvvv4341]

They have some pretty greate icream over there i remember.

[@Joseph-ku7eb]

@@skelly0000 Haha! What were the chances? Small world.

[@Karma20XX]

How was the Popeye Village?

[@Joseph-ku7eb]

@@Karma20XX Pretty good, I thought. Most of the shows and activities during the day are very child-oriented, but if you enjoy the film (which I'm embarrassed to admit I do), it's interesting simply to walk around and explore. It's in a lovely location. If you ever find yourself in Malta, it's a decent way to spend an afternoon, although unless you're a hardcore fan (which Rich might be lol) it's probably not worth travelling abroad solely to visit it. My biggest complaint is that one of the buildings is meant to be a shrine to Robin Williams, but it's still unfinished and apparently has been for a few years now.

[@misterlint8077]

This is unbelievable, Rich. Not only is Popeye the first movie I remember seeing. It is also my first memory. I saw it in theaters with my parents, and when Popeye punched the octopus and it flies out of the water, I laughed so much my parents were laughing at me laughing. Also, I've always said Shelly Duvall casting as Olive Oyl was the greatest casting ever.

[@Su_aSponte]

Dude, that’s the part that got me confused. It is a pretty sweet first movie memory tho!! I really thought he was older than me because he has such an old soul! My first movie memories were The Aristocats and then, E.T.. i have to reevaluate my perception of reality!

[@TerrenceNowicki]

The ending sequence of the movie was really scary to me as a small child, watching it on my parents' Videodisc player.

[@andrewmaximo4485]

My mom has a distant memory of a hippie uncle who was watching her and my uncle when they were kids and took them to a drive in to watch vanishing point. She said she fell asleep and woke up to the scene where a nude woman is riding around on a motorcycle. She was 6 at the time. Mine was either wizard of Oz or Batman 89.

[@MajorSeventh]

According to _The Popeye Story_ by Bridget Terry, the flying octopus was achieved by shooting it out of a cannon. lol

[@WaffleFlippin]

They can’t keep getting away with it

[@dvdatkinson811]

Jay: You know the average person knows of Popeye in passing Rich:I have no idea what you are talking about *drops the deepest lore about Popeye*

[@luckyspurs]

Rich's ability to both remember comic book lore perfectly and also sum up an entire comic book run into one disparaging remark, is superb.

[@deanthemachine8879]

I like that Rich puts in effort to do background research on what they’re talking about. Good work, Rich!!

[@MoragTong]

that's right, jay!

[@lotus-prince]

@@ianpatrickmchugh787 Eh, Popeye really was just kind of left behind in the 80s and 90s. Though I think Jay forgot about how it would play on Cartoon Network, along with 1940s and 50s Looney Tunes.

[@JackieWohlenhaus]

This is one of my favorite films of all time. One of the most faithful comic movies ever made.

[@CordellPotts]

Was born 1977. Was a huge Max Fliesher Popeye fan. I remember being excited when my granny told me Popeye The Movie was coming on HBO. Then I remember being weirded out when I actually watched it. In my 5yr old brain I was watching some kind of horror film. The whole town looked haunted and Popeyes arms really creeped me out for some reason.

[@Virtuasamsara]

'79 here, yeah I remember really not liking this movie as a 5yo, it weirded me out in a similar way that Jay describes. It was honestly off-putting, except I was also weirdly attracted to Shelly Duvall. But the movie itself was just so weird and grimy.

[@bloodgourd]

Popeye, Salem's Lot, and the Elephant Man. The holy trinity of Showtime movies that helped shape my initial comprehension of the universe.

[@Teeveepicksures]

Did you have showtime when it was just one beige box with two buttons? I'm having bizarro flashbacks after learning Jay isn't in his mid-50's and nothing makes sense anymore.

[@wingitprod]

Aerobicise didn't make the cut?

[@bloodgourd]

@@wingitprod I didn't fully appreciate that until later, but I did dig all the nudity in Ghost Story (1981).

[@Jean-Paul-Lane-Valley]

Every person above 30s was traumatized by at least one of those movies.

[@wingitprod]

@@bloodgourd Ah! The fluttering, plummeting tally was quite memorable.

[@natsukashi1431]

She really was perfectly cast as Olive Oyl, I'm just glad that someone recognized Shelley Duvall's excellent performance shortly before she passed away.

[@sharpsonmusic]

0:36 I keep forgetting that Rich Evans is a Hollywood A-list Actor who's married to Karen Gillan of Guardians Of The Galaxy and Doctor Who fame. He's just so humble. And wise.

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Are you rlm all guys brain damaged? Is this supposed to be funny?

[@JoeyGumbo]

That’s a nice rack of ribs

[@evilsponge6911]

Finally, the movie I kinda remember watching on AMC one time

[@TheDutchViewer]

*The Curse of the Worst strikes again! RIP Shelley Duvall!*

[@Ennahdee]

Shelley Duvall would've been outstanding as Olive Oyl in The Shining

[@BenDowdy]

I'm trying to imagine Jack Nicholson as Popeye...

[@concinnus]

@@BenDowdy Or, he could start as Popeye and transform into Bluto when he loses it. Also, Nicholson was a sailor in The Last Detail; just give him a pipe, squint, spinach, and thigh-forearms.

[@EnchoIndieStudio]

That lone Popeye merch collector is most certainly a 40 year old Brazilian. Popeye was HUGE in Brazil in the 90s

[@STEVEHEROLD]

There’s a Popeye museum in Illinois. I’ve been to it. The owners are not Brazilian.

[@Aloysius2113]

...why

[@turbochargedfilms]

​@@Aloysius2113 brazil

[@musiciansanonymous]

I find that with a lot of American cartoons that they tend to be more popular in countries other than America. I'm from India and Popeye was one of the most popular cartoons here in the 90s - along with almost all of Hanna-Barbera cartoons dubbed in Hindi.

[@arthurgwg]

As a Brazilian I can confirm that. SOME of the reason is that making our own cartoons was out of the question since its very expensive and old and out of style cartoons were cheaper to license so Brazilian TVs bought these cartoon licenses for cheap and re-ran them over and over again. Thats why we are obsessed with Woody Woodpecker, a forgotten cartoon that lost to Loney toons even back then.

[@bearlyhardley]

Learning that Robert Altman directed blew my fucking MIND. Honestly, as a kid the unstructured meandering of it all only served to pull me in even deeper into the movie. As an adult it confounds me but as a kid it ENTHRALLED me

[@Atomicsuplex]

I visited Popeye Village in Malta a few years back. It operates as a theme park now. It's very low rent/shonky but I loved it. We went off season (which was still burning hot in malta) and were pretty much the only people in the whole village. It was a tottaly surreal experience. Slightly run down, apathetic actors, insanly dull attractions, weird puppet show. A great memorial to a flop 80s film nobody remembers. I bought a T-shirt with Olive on from the gift shop as a souvenir, but the image came out on the first wash. Perfect!

[@TOMMYDACOMMIE]

"I kind of remember watching it on cable" perfectly sums up the movie lol

[@TubbyJ420]

Camp Crystal Lake & RLM have one thing in common: IT'S GOT A DEATH CURSE!

[@supermarrio]

Guys! I'm one of those weird Popeye people! This being Revisited is like a dream for me. I have basically the same feelings as Rich here and I'm just shocked that more folks don't "get" this movie. It's such an anomaly of a film. Thanks for doing this guys!

[@TwentyNineJP]

Jay's befuddlement at the mumbling tells me he probably didn't watch much of the Popeye cartoon either lol

[@DM4N367]

Jay loves the artsy fartsy shit. He's the boring type of audience. He definitely has the worst takes out of all the guys.

[@TheSoulvian]

The fact that Rich acts like doing a musical with Popeye is such a ridiculous concept on the face of it suggests to me that he doesn't remember the original cartoons very well either. Popeye and Olive sang all the time. They were full of original music. Maybe he'd have an issue with it there also.

[@5ch3nk]

RLM claims another one. RIP Shelley

[@HappyMinds1]

Rich Evans is an absolute LEGEND, we are blessed every time we get to see him.

[@dankoftinoff8119]

My dad doesn't really have time or cares about movies, however, the 1980 Popeye movie would make him laugh like crazy and was his favorite film. It is a treasure!

[@DaveDurango]

Same with my Dad. He loves Pop-Eye

[@chillfox420]

This movie is KINO! The fact that they built that practical set just for this movie shows the care and craftsmanship that went into it. Great performances by all. Before the days of overused green screen. It is a great movie, a classic. 😊

[@marymaclaren9553]

My parents grew up in the depression and I grew up watching Tom Hatten's Popeye and Friends on KTLA every single Sunday. This movie was a big deal to us when it came out and saw it first run in the theater. Never even considered it to be bad, weird, but never bad. loved it. Then as an adult shocked to discover that it was Robert Altman, loved it even more. And it his defense, he was taking from the early, black and white era of Popeye mostly. There was a lot of mumbling in those.

[@greggersden]

[Southern California gen-xer exchanges a knowing nod, and then gives a brief moment to remember Family Film Festival.]

[@marymaclaren9553]

@@greggersden As soon as Popeye was over I'd wait and hope to see if the 'Little Rascals' or ' 'Pippi Longstocking' were on the Family Film Festival roster that day. If not, it was outside to play.

[@1mandanceparty]

I have been DEMANDING this review for literal YEARS.

[@toddjackson164]

I discovered your videos while on a week long stay-cation. I became so addicted, which interrupted every stay--cation plan. What else can I say.

[@capitancoolo1]

My uncle is one of those old popeye-heads who's been collecting Popeye stuff since long before I was born. His garage is setup like a Popeye museum. It was actually kinda neat because I was a fan of the cartoons then but it also kinda sucked because he has all these great Popeye toys that I wasn't allowed to touch. I also saw this movie for the first time with him and my aunt on an old vcr that had a corded control.

[@TheodoricFriede]

Big Bad Toystore sells a sick ass high end Popeye action figure, so if you got 100 dollars to spend, you can get the sickest ass Popeye toy the world has ever seen and make your childhood dreams come true.

[@ColeslawVariant]

When your uncle eventually passes, you grab those toys and smack them together like they were intended.

[@Meitti]

Reason why the superpower potion is spinach is because back in the day a simple typo in list of ingredients made everyone believe spinach had ten times the amount of iron in it that it really has. So spinach was considered power food just because a decimal was in the wrong place in official statistics.

[@darkworlddenizen]

I mean, spinach is still pretty good for you regardless.

[@ZiddersRooFurry]

The typo thing is a popular myth. Look up Mielewczik, M. and Moll, J. 2016. Spinach in Blunderland: How the myth that spinach is rich in iron became an urban academic legend . Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology. 21, pp. 61-142.

[@DrTelf]

@@darkworlddenizen unlike carrots, spinach is genuinely good for your eyes. No, it won't make you see in the dark, but it does help prevent eye problems and illnesses later in life. Never a bad idea to add spinach to your meals.

[@luckyspurs]

Spinage is the weirdest food in the sense that when you cook it, it raps into a tiny little thing that's about 58 leafs thick. You put an entire bag in a saucepan and you get something the size of a small biscuit at the end of it.

[@aarondavis8943]

The way spinach was so woefully underused in this film is a national disgrace.

[@mrkeogh]

Jay being confused by the tone and style _as a child_ is the most Jay thing imaginable.

[@elijahkrewson6665]

I actually worked for Missouri Meerschaum Company from 2019 to 2023. MMC is the last corn cob pipe company in the United States, and one of MM's "achievements" was making the very corn cob pipe that Robin Williams uses in the film. We also sent plenty of pipes to the Popeye Museum in Chester, Illinois, so I have a soft spot for the Ol'Sailor.

[@Goldnfoxx]

Saw this in the theater, and despite being like 5 at the time, I already knew who Robin Williams was because of Mork and Mindy. One of my earliest Christmas memories is of waking up on Christmas morning, must've been '81 or '82, and my dad had gotten my mom a small boom box, and decided to wake us all up with the Popeye soundtrack (which my mom LOVED) blaring throughout the house. It's also because of this film that whenever Bill Irwin pops up in a film, I'm like, "Hey, it's Bill Irwin!" 😂 Nah, I unironically love this film. It certainly isn't flawless, but I love it anyway.

[@BrendonLee]

I watched this on repeat during my childhood even though I never liked the cartoon that much. Reading your comment made me realise the reason we had it on VHS was because my grandma was a fan of Mork and Mindy. Obviously that show was before my time so I was very confused when older family members talked about it. My grandma didn't speak any english so she used to call Robin Williams 'Nano nano', which I only understood when I got older and had access to the internet.

[@chrisstorrer]

Awesome memory thank you for sharing

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

Jay still trying to convince hinself that Garfield is a pop culture icon who has no fans whatsoever besides those niche collector types is my favorite character arc of 2023/24 so far

[@pogglywoggly3292]

I still like the classic, "how can it be a comedy without blood, Ash and violence" arc he's been traveling on since birth.

[@chillhour6155]

It's bigger then Pokemon lol what are you on about

[@chrisb7831]

Agreed with everything said, but Robin Williams mumbling throughout the entire movie is hilarious and I still hear new stuff that makes me laugh on rewatches.

[@FredSavageRavage]

You might’ve just sold me with that

[@juniorjames7076]

I'm GenX. I first saw this (heavily edited for television) on NBC in the early 1980s. I was only 11 or 12 but its the first time I felt I was watching a masterpiece of comedy and performance that NOBODY was going to appreciate!! I have loved this film forever and THIS film made me a life long fan of Robin Williams and Shelly Duvall who perform as if trained in the ancient European tradition of Troubadour Clowns/Pantomime. Masterclass performances.

[@Teeveepicksures]

100% right there with you.

[@entropybentwhistle]

I saw it twice as an early teen during its initial theater run and laughed throughout (I was already a big Robin Williams fan from Happy Days and Mork and Mindy). I started singing the movie’s tunes around the house so my parents got me the soundtrack record as a Christmas present that year. I still have the songs with me on my iPod when driving around and rewatch the blu-ray on a regular basis when I need a mood lift. Now off to listen to I Yam What I Yam and I’m Mean. PS: The OST deluxe version with theatrical versions and Harry Nilsson versions is on Apple Music.

[@tonypine3434]

The film is dogshit, pal.

[@78Rudys]

Richard Malcom Evans! You knew you had this power yet you willingly chose to use it. Murderer!

[@angreydoggo4357]

I would have never believed I'd see RLM call Quinton Reviews a weirdo, but man I'm glad to see it happen

[@hosvet_animation]

Glad I'm not the only one that caught that.

[@trash2958]

Wait I think i missed that, when in the video do they say that?

[@hosvet_animation]

@@trash2958 Early, and Jay doesn't call him by name he just says there's one weirdo who's collecting all the Garfield merchandise.

[@makosimp5022]

​@@hosvet_animationhe's buying it to impress Nostalgia Chick

[@RogerFusselman]

The Popeye Fleischer cartoons explain everything about this film that baffled you guys. The set design and Popeye voice come from those cartoons. There's something adorable about the film that is not strictly in line with proper filmmaking.

[@PugsMalone]

They also recorded the voices after the animation and Popeye’s actor would make mumbly ad libs while his mouth wasn’t moving, which probably influenced the movie’s use of ADR.

[@Spokker]

The one with Sinbad had some good ass animation. The fight is top notch.

[@QuantumElectricians]

That's the thing, it is pretty close to the early cartoons. But it's too slow and moody for a kid's film. It's made for classic Popeye aficionado adults.

[@BioYuGi]

They 100% mention the mumbles in the cartoon here, but it just doesn't WORK in live action when you're trying to have a 90 minute plot as compared to a 4 minute toon.

[@kyliewog1]

Came across this on cable when I was like 12 years old with a 104 fever and up until this point I thought I had a literal fever dream and didn't think it actually existed so you've brought me out of the depths of adolescent psychosis by reviewing it thank you

[@LordRezo]

Jay got BTFO'ed by Rich within the first two minutes.

[@CheriZen]

This Star Wars Acolyte commentary was really good! Some insights to things I never thought of... Wookie Jedi's are so cool...

[@CheriZen]

Thank you Rich

[@DavidZMediaisAwesome]

The red letter media curse strikes again. RIP Shelley Duval :(

[@corbinmarkey466]

I don't care what anyone says, I'll always have a soft spot for this movie. Nostalgia definitely plays a part, but it has such a unique identity and charm about it that I appreciate as an adult.

[@hellion7514]

You don’t have to make excuses for loving this movie. It’s brilliant and misunderstood, even by these arbiters of film criticism at RLM

[@Tuning3434]

Hmmm, I viewed it as a kid once, and while something clicked because the production value was so amazing.... I also get reminded in this review why I could barely handle watching it because NOTHING HAPPENS!!!! I don't think I will ever watch it again, tbh.

[@rocketdave719]

I agree. I really liked this movie as a kid, and now that I'm an adult, I still really like it. Even as a kid, I remember appreciating the Altman-esque overlapping dialogue and the work that obviously went into making Sweethaven feel like a real (albeit somewhat surreal) environment.

[@trickster721]

Strange movies like this fit right into the era of early video rental, when the whole process felt very dark and mysterious.

[@fatandsassy1510]

Jay cropped the film out of context to look bad. The stormy, sullen intro makes the subsequent toemwn's anthem all the more glorious by contrast. Too many positive things I can say about this film.

[@Starfig]

This is actually one of my favorite movies out there. I love the music, I love the casting, I love the look of the movie itself. It's just wonderful.