In an attempt to reconnect with his father, Popeye, a young sailor, who struggles against being separated from his father years ago, who goes to a coastal town, where he meets a beautiful woman and falls for her, but when he knows that she is married, everything changes.
It is more than faint praise to say that Popeye is far, far better than it might have been, considering the treacherous challenge it presented. But avoiding disaster is not necessarily the same as success.
A thoroughly charming, immensely appealing mess of a movie, often high-spirited and witty, occasionally pretentious and flat, sometimes robustly funny and frequently unintelligible.
Moviehole
May 12, 2005
The film's not much chop, but Williams is right at home as the spinach-swallowing sailor
eFilmCritic.com
February 21, 2010
A lot of it is klutzier than you may remember it being, and it leads to a wretched climax involving the fakest-looking octopus since Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster.
