. . . in this animated retelling of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. This brief cartoon opens with the sort of global map maneuvers that helped win a "Best Picture" Oscar for CASABLANCA. However, unlike that sappy soap opera, there are no female speaking parts to interrupt the continuous action of POPEYE'S TRAVELS. Nor are there any goose-stepping Prussians featured here, since everyone knows that once you've mentioned the H-word, you've lost the argument. Instead, POPEYE'S TRAVELS unspools the sheer enjoyment of seeing a tedious "literary classic" boiled down to about three minutes worth of just The Essentials. POPEYE'S TRAVELS is even better than Montgomery Cliff's Notes, because you do not have to read a single word. Though Gulliver author Jonathan Swift was notorious for including Irish Baby Recipes in all of his writings, the producers of POPEYE'S TRAVELS tastefully keep anything smacking of human cannibalism to a bare minimum. All in all, this Popeye outing can serve as a master class for adapting Great Works the right way!
2 Reviews
It's pretty obvious that no expense has been spared . . .
oscaralbert22 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Now that it has been going on for longer than a year . . .
pixrox13 May 2023
. . . many diplomats are scouring the world's film vaults in a desperate attempt to resolve Russia's irrational War against Humanity. Rightly diagnosed as a probable Human Extinction Event, the unprecedented atrocities committed by the not-so-defunct Soviet Bear have far exceeded any Mad Max-type worst case scenario. The Kremlin KGB-trained mad man pulling the strings of Armageddon has specialized in rocketing apartment buildings, shopping malls, orphanages, schools and maternity wards, while emptying the deviants of his barbaric region from solitary confinement cells and siccing them on innocent woman and children as his own personal terror squad. So surely the sailor is dead wrong when he sings "If you're a giant or mite, there's no reason to fight" during POPEYE'S TRAVELS.
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