The first thing to get out of the way is how insane this 1980 project was from the start: Robert Altman, five years removed from Nashville, was given a big budget to direct a Popeye movie in an era ...

Anyone who grew up on the Popeye television series thinks of him as a Navy sailor. But that's not where he started in E.C. Segar's original comic strip back in 1929, and he took a couple of surprising ...