Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

The last of the triple-length Technicolor Popeye featurettes, this one is a retelling of the story of Aladdin, written by Olive Oyl as a screenplay for Surprise Pictures. "Aladdin" has less accomplished animation than the other two featurettes, but it features a better-moving and more balanced storyline. Popeye's best ad-lib, while being pressured into romance by a love-struck Princess (played by Olive): "I never made love in Technicolor before!"

A POPEYE Cartoon.

Surprise Pictures scriptwriter Olive Oyl dreams-up a film version of ALADDIN AND HIS WONDERFUL LAMP, starring her spinach-munching boyfriend & herself.

This was the third 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 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.

So in this fun, longer than usual Popeye cartoon it's strangely Olive herself who dreams the whole thing up while trying to write a movie script for the studio she works at, which is probably why it has Popeye as Aladdin and herself as the princess, and she even calls him Popeye at one point and then corrects herself, in an early example of breaking the fourth wall that is pretty neat. The look of the version I watched was very faded and bleached of a lot of the colour, but I still couldn't miss the richness of the details in some of the scenes, especially the moonlit palace with the full moon behind it, very dramatic and beautifully done. As always in just about any animation he ever lent his quirky voice talents to, big props to Jack Mercy and his wonderfully odd pun-filled mutterings that keep things moving along and provide some of the biggest laughs. I just love the gross evil vizier who Popeye has to eat multiple cans of spinach before he can beat, his manic leering expressions and villainous theatrics are so funny and of the certain style that could only ever have come out of the Fleicher studios! I didn't like the overly camp genie though, he was an obnoxious bad stereotype, but it was still cool how Popeye was having a blue genie doing goofy hijinks over fifty years before we had Robin Williams delivering his classic performance! There is quite a few unmistakeable precursors to the Disney movie in this.. For me this isn't quite a gem like the Sinbad Popeye special was but it's fun and entertaining enough nonetheless, well worth checking out! X

For me, it remains the best version of Aladdin adventures. And, after decades, it is just lovely to see , again, a touching, amusing and heroic animation, admiring the wise craft , the silly situations and one of most interesting evil guys. And, no doubts, popeye .

When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious like the Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!