Johnny H.
Max Fleischer is the man responsible for the blossoming American animation film industry and he inspired the likes of Walt Disney, Walter Lantz and even Leon Schlesinger. Popeye became the most popular short-film series in the United States when Fleischer bought the film rights to the character, thus resulting in classics like 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' and so forth.These early Popeye shorts employed what is commonly referred to as 'rubber hose animation' where the characters lacked any specific points of articulation making their arms and legs look 'bendy'. I love these shorts because of the surreal charm they still have eighty years on. They're not trying to pretend that its animation is perfect, they just want to entertain the audience with its fast-paced and ridiculous animation.I really do like these cartoons' they're lovely time capsules in spite some of the inherent racism that was unfortunately prominent in the 30s. With that said, these cartoons were never made with the intent of offending anyone through any inappropriate characters, they were just products of the time which we can thankfully look beyond now.Popeye is still a beloved cartoon icon around the world and for good reason; he made the United States and the world happier during the Great Depression, and for that he's become a real superhero in his own right.
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71)
I love Fleischer's Popeye better than all the other versions of the character. This cartoon is my favorite out of the "Arabian Nights" trilogy of featurettes filmed in color, and also "Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp" too.I love the desert scene where the three heroes Popeye,Olive Oyl and Wimpy trudge through the sand and Wimpy sees a feast which was really a mirage; also the "tank roll" part too. I also love the scene at the cafe, when Popeye snatches Abu Hassen/Bluto's underwear from him...without removing his clothes! One last scene that I love is when Olive give Popeye a kiss while pacing on guard duty back and forth on the dock. So that makes it four parts I love and overall, it's another Popeye classic to favor.
njdimic
Popeye goes to capture Abu Hassan and his 40 thieves ,along with Olive and Wimpy. Their plain (which was originally a boat which transformed into plane) crashes into desert ,and they arrive at the town ,which is about to be attacked by 40 thieves. The inhabitants are scared and they run for their lives ,accept for Popeye who stayed to deal with the thieves. He confronts Abu Hassan and after some hilarious gages ,Popeye end up stocked on a ceiling (don't ask how),while the 40 thieves are escaping with Olive and Wimpy and prisoners (my ,what a surprise!) ,Popeye manages to follow the thieves on a fully charged camill and infiltrates their cave. He fights the thieves ,then eats his spinach and beat the hell out of them. Everybody are celebrating ,and Popeye is a hero. The End.One of three Popeye 16 minutes cartoons in which he is in some Arabian Nights story. This time he have to deal with 40 thieves and their leader Abu Hassan (who ,of course ,looks like Bluto). The entire cartoon is full of things because of which Popeye is a favorite character to one entire generation. Despite the fact that it has been made 70 years ago ,it never lost it's touch. No matter how much you're old ,you can always laugh yourself to death watching this cartoon which is a masterpiece (animation ,storyline ,everything). It's a classic ,no doubt about that.
Ron Oliver
A POPEYE Cartoon.After crashing his plane in the Sahara, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALI BABA'S FORTY THIEVES when brigand Abu Hassan loots the desert village where the old spinach muncher has found respite. With Olive Oyl captured as a slave for the Thieves, it's time for our hero to come to the rescue...This was the second in a series of 3 excellent two-reel cartoons, created by Max Fleischer, in which Popeye & his friends are interpolated into the classic stories of The Arabian Nights. They feature great animation - notice the fascinating 3-D backgrounds - and taut, fast-moving plots. Meant to be shown in movie theaters, they are miles ahead of their Saturday Morning counterparts. Jack Mercer is the voice of Popeye; Mae Questel does the honors for Olive Oyl.
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