DVD : Popeye the Sailor, Vol. 2: 1938-1940

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569798069
Format: Animated, Color, DVD-Video, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 17, 2008
Running Time: 218 minutes
Sales Rank: 3811
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2008

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Product Description:
Episodes:Disc #11. I Yam Love Sick2. Plumbing Is A Pipe3. The Jeep4. Bulldozing The Bull5. Mutiny Ain t Nice6. Goonland7. A Date To Skate8. Cops Is Always Right9. Customers Wanted10. ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP11. Leave Well Enough Alone12. Wotta Nitemare13. Ghosks Is The Bunk14. Hello How Am I15. It s The Natural Thing To DoDisc #21. Never Sock A Baby2. Shalespearian Spinach3. Females Is Fickle4. Stealin Ain t Honest5. Me Feelin s Is Hurt6. Onion Pacific7. Wimmin Is A Myskery8. Nurse-Mates9. Fightin Pals10. Doin Impossikible Stunts11. Wimmin Hadn t Oughta Drive12. Puttin On The Act13. Popeye Meets William Tell14. My Pop My Pop15. With Poopdeck Pappy16. Popeye Presents Eugene The JeepFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: NR UPC: 012569798069 Manufacturer No: 1000019015

Amazon.com:
During the late 1930's, the Fleischers' Popeye the Sailor cartoons rivaled even Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse shorts in popularity, and this second collection makes it easy to understand why. In contrast to the realistically animated characters in Disney's lavishly beautiful shorts, Popeye, Olive and Bluto were rubber-limbed and broadly comic. These cartoons aren't badly animated: notice the fun the artists have with Olive's precarious balance in "A Date To Skate" (1938) or the way the trio struggles to act refined in "It's The Natural Thing To Do" (1939). The Fleischers' approach to animation was just broader and cartoon-ier than Disney's. But the period of 1938-1940 represented the last hurrah of the Popeye shorts. To accommodate the large staff needed for the studio's first feature, Gulliver's Travels (1939), producer Max Fleischer moved the studio from New York to Miami. The run-down apartment houses and gritty streets of the early Popeye cartoons gave way to suburban houses and gardens. The backgrounds and supporting characters in "Popeye Meets William Tell" (1940) look like leftovers from Gulliver, and the film lacks the élan of the shorts made just a year earlier. The studio would close and be re-organized under new management after the failure of Hoppity Goes to Town in 1941. Like the cartoons in the previous set, Popeye the Sailor 1933-1938, these transfers were made from beautiful masters with only minimal dust and scratches. In addition to four "Popumentaries," the extras include a rare, partial pencil test from "Females Is Fickle" (1940) and a 1938 "Popular Science" short showcasing the animation process at the Miami Studio. A must-have for cartoon lovers.(Unrated, suitable for ages 8 and older: cartoon violence, tobacco use, a few ethnic stereotypes) --Charles Solomon

(1. I Yam Love Sick, 2. Plumbing Is A Pipe, 3. The Jeep, 4. Bulldozing The Bull, 5. Mutiny Ain't Nice, 6. Goonland, 7. A Date To Skate, 8. Cops Is Always Right, 9. Customers Wanted, 10. Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp, 11. Leave Well Enough Alone, 12. Wotta Nitemare, 13. Ghosks Is The Bunk, 14. Hello How Am I, 15. It's The Natural Thing To Do, 16. Never Sock A Baby, 17. Shakespearian Spinach, 18. Females Is Fickle, 19. Stealin Ain't Honest, 20. Me Feelins Is Hurt, 21. Onion Pacific, 22. Wimmin Is A Myskery, 23. Nurse-Mates, 24. Fightin Pals, 25. Doin Impossikible Stunts, 26. Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive, 27. Puttin On The Act, 28. Popeye Meets William Tell, 29. My Pop, My Pop, 30. With Poopdeck Pappy, 31. Popeye Presents Eugene The Jeep)

Average Rating:

Rating: - Another Great Popeye Collection
At the risk of sounding like a snob these aren't cartoons they're classic animation. Here we have a meeting of two 1930's giants, Fleischer Studios and perhaps the most indelible character in entertainment history, Popeye the Sailor Man. A short, balding, toothless, middle aged sailor with a misshapen body, poor grammar and a face only Olive could love. Popeye is less than an everyman, he's a misfit with the strength of a battleship. It's nearly impossible not to like Popeye because he represents ... Read More

Rating: - FEWER TOONS THAN VOL. 1 BUT STILL FUN!
The second volume of Popeye shorts has been released, covering the years 1938 - 1940. The two disc set features 31 shorts along with numerous extras. There is a misconception that every Popeye short involved him eating spinach and fighting arch-nemesis Bluto but this set seems aimed at disproving that theory. Many of these shorts are without Bluto and even without that strength-producing green vegetable. It seems as if the Fleischers were now trying to domesticate their star. More and more episodes ... Read More

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Rating: - POPEYE THE SAILOR, VOL. 2
Although not quite as fun and satisfying as the first volume of the original Popeye cartoons, still highly recommended...

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Rating: - More of the Best
Even though it's a much smaller box than the first Popeye collection, it's still a must have for fans of the Fleischer ouevre. The restorations, as in the first set, are meticulous, and there's a pretty good hour doc on the whole Fleischer history, including a couple of things (a 1950s luncheon set up by former arch rival Walt Disney) that I didn't know before. As with the first box, some of these cartoons are as good as golden age theatrical cartoons ever got. There are first appearances by the Jeep, ... Read More

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Rating: - Another great set although fewer cartoons this time.
This set covers a time of change at the Fleischer Studios as they made the decision to move to Coral Gables, Florida where they were given the first air conditioned office building in Florida as an enticement by the state. This move was made more difficult as Mae Questel declined to follow and the voice of Bluto, Gus Wickie, had died the previous year. At the same time, the theaters and distributers were looking for more conformist Disney style animation and less of the rough and tumble weirdness that marked ... Read More