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Popeye
MEANRANK
54/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4779
- IMDb #5390
- Google retired #3132
- Rotten Tomatoes #3757
- Metacritic #2904
- Letterboxd #4182
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3335
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4623
- Metacritic Critics #2099
- Metacritic Audience #4104
- Criticker #3585
- Kinopoisk #5197
- AlloCiné #4955
- Trakt #4953
Every rating
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Lowest is Criticker on 28, highest is Google on 74.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →The sailor man Popeye sails to the seaside town of Sweethaven to find his long-lost father. He quickly befriends the lanky Olive Oyl and adopts an orphan baby named Swee'Pea. He must contend with the brutish Bluto who also wants Olive Oyl, and eventually confront the mysterious and powerful Commodore who runs the town.
Details
- Director
- Robert Altman
- Writer
- Jules Feiffer
- Based on
- Popeye
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Walt Disney Productions, Robert Evans Productions, King Features Syndicate
- Released
- 12 December 1980
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $49.8M
- Awards
- 4 wins, 4 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
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| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Remake | Popeye (Paramount) | Winner |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Screenplay | Popeye (Paramount) | Nominee |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "He Needs Me" by Shelley Duvall | Winner |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Picture | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Winner |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Actor | Robin Williams | Nominee |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 2006 | Worst Director | Robert Altman | Nominee |
| Saturn Awards 1981 | Best Fantasy Film | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Nominee |
| Stinkers Bad Movie Awards 1981 | Worst Picture | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Winner |
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8 awards — Popeye
×| Worst Picture | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Winner |
| Worst Picture | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Winner |
| Worst Remake | Popeye (Paramount) | Winner |
| Worst Song or Song Performance in a Film or Its End Credits | "He Needs Me" by Shelley Duvall | Winner |
| Worst Actor | Robin Williams | Nominee |
| Worst Director | Robert Altman | Nominee |
| Worst Screenplay | Popeye (Paramount) | Nominee |
| Best Fantasy Film | Popeye ( Paramount ) | Nominee |