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I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)

*** (out of 4)

As this short starts off, Popeye is crying because he received a letter from Olive Oyl saying she's left him for an aviator. Soon she's in terror because of his mean ways so Popeye must come to the rescue.

Surely I'm not the only fan of this series who watches shorts like this and wonders why Popeye even puts up with Olive Oyl's attitude. For whatever his reason, Popeeye decides to go into battle with Bluto as the two take the air to straighten things out. For the most part this isn't the greatest short in the series but as usual the animation is terrific and certainly helps keep the film going. There are some creative scenes in the sky and especially when Popeye feeds spinach to a duck.

At the airport, Popeye is heartbroken after getting a Dear John letter from Olive Oyl. She has run off with pilot Bluto. He's abusive and she wants to go back to Popeye. That's when Popeye comes to the rescue. I'm more and more disappointed with Olive Oyl as I see more of these cartoons. Popeye is nothing but good to her. Yet she is often running off with Bluto. What's up with that? Maybe Popeye should look for another girlfriend. Also Popeye should rescue Olive Oyl at the end of the episode, not the middle. There is an interesting opening scene that is unlike the normal Popeye drawings. It's also fun that Popeye gives spinach to the duck. Overall, this is good Popeye fun.

We are shown the 'Hott-Air Airport" and down the road is Olive Oly's restaurant for fliers with the motto painted on the roof, "Come Down And See Me Sometime!"

Meanwhile, Popeye is crying, reading a letter from Olive saying, "Popeye, I am PLANE crazy about aviators. I'm flying away with one. Good-bye. Olive Oyl."

Well, this turns out to be one of the most amusing and entertaining Popeye cartoons I've seen. It's the kind of animated short I remember when I think fondly back on the great Popeye cartoons I saw as a kid. In a nutshell, we have Popeye and Bluto fighting in out in the sky - WWI "dogfight" style.

Popeye used two cans a spinach, giving one of them to a duck, to help save him and defeat his enemy. That's just one example of the many outrageous and totally insane scenes. . This is so good, the time seemed to "fly by" in about a minute. Great stuff!

Olive Oyle out of business for the love to an aviator, airplanes, old fights between Popeye and Bluto, the generosity of the first to a seagull and the so expected end. An easy short film in which the fly of airplanes remains the basic source of seduction.

Olive Oyl has flown the coop with aviator Bluto. Popeye is broken hearted. Then he spots Olive being mistreated by Bluto in the air, and takes off in a plane after them. Olive gets to safety while the two guys fight like junior birdmen.

Director Dave Fleischer was fond of packing as many gags as possible into his cartoons, and this is a fine example of that. To make things even better, the movie starts with one of the better example of the Fleischer's. Tabletop Process a technique that lends a real sense of three dimensions to this cartoon.

We think of Walt Disney as a great innovator in cartoons, and he was quick to latch onto new techniques. At Fleischer, they invented them.