No Bluto: That's Good
Olive Oyl and Popeye are to be wed on the morrow. So Olive dreams of what may come, including a set of tormenting twins.
It's similar in outline to 1940's WIMMIN IS A MYSKERY. Repeats like this always suffer in my opinion. Although the folks at Famous Studios knew how to put the gags in, they didn't insist on the sheer number that Dave Fleischer had. Also, by 1954, the budget on a cartoon didn't go as far as it had in 1940, so character design and background work was nowhere near as pleasing.
The fact that to come up with a plot different from the usual Popeye-versus-Bluto fight, they simply redid an old cartoon makes me think they weren't putting much thought into the series by this time.
It's similar in outline to 1940's WIMMIN IS A MYSKERY. Repeats like this always suffer in my opinion. Although the folks at Famous Studios knew how to put the gags in, they didn't insist on the sheer number that Dave Fleischer had. Also, by 1954, the budget on a cartoon didn't go as far as it had in 1940, so character design and background work was nowhere near as pleasing.
The fact that to come up with a plot different from the usual Popeye-versus-Bluto fight, they simply redid an old cartoon makes me think they weren't putting much thought into the series by this time.
- boblipton
- Oct 29, 2022