Popeye the Sailor: When Popeye Ruled the Seven Seas

Customer Reviews:

Only worth it for the bonus newsreel.......2006-11-25

As many have already pointed out, the cartoons contained in this DVD are the usual sloppy job by cheapskate company Goodtimes Video. Apparently, the definition of "digitally remastered" is quite broad, because these cartoons (especially the color ones) look pretty bad. All the cartoons here are available in other collections, with varying degrees of quality. The only good thing about this is the rare newsreel feature that details the making of a Popeye cartoon. Animation buffs and Popeye fans will appreciate the short feature. Otherwise, we're still waiting for someone to do the spinach-eatin' sailor justice on DVD.

Wait, Warner Brothers WILL restore Popeye in 2007!.......2006-06-10

Warner Brothers is in the process of restoring the classic B&W and Color Popeye Cartoons for a 2007 release. Original Paramount main & end titles will be a part of the restoration.

"Digitally Restored" = Completely Mangled!.......2006-03-05

GoodTimes claims to have "digitally restored" these old Popeye cartoons. By "Digitally Restore," they must mean "add corny sound effects that came with our DVD editing software." It's bad, folks. If you're a fan of animation history, this DVD will do nothing but make you tear your hair out. My guess is that GoodTimes added the new sound effects so that they could claim copyright on what would otherwise be completely public-domain cartoons. Here's to hoping that someone comes out with a DVD that respects these Fleischer masterpieces.

New review straight from the horses mouth.......2005-03-30

Popeye The Sailor "When Popeye Ruled The Seven Seas"

I have noticed some mixed reviews about this product with most of the negative ones being ghost written by our competition so i wanted to tell everyone the real truth about this product since we are the people who produced it. I am using my wifes Amazon account to post this.

We have taken some of the greatest classic cartoons ever produced, from some of the greatest animators in history, and meticulously added hundreds of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars of detailed restoration to both the sound and images in order to make them look as good as they did the day they were first released. Each cartoon is digitally processed first through photo shop frame by frame, and then using both the Davinci and the new Pogo systems to remove every scratch, line, dropout and artifact possible. We then we do a full color restoration at Technicolor using the original color palates to match the colors, tones and shades. We then digitally clean up the sound track to remove all the hiss and scratches and carefully add new foley sound effects, ambience and digitally remix them back onto the cartoons.

The result is our animated DVD series which is currently distributed in both the United States and Canada by Goodtimes Entertainment. These fully restored, full motion, color animations have not been seen in this condition since their original theatrical release. Sit back and be amazed and enjoy some of the finest and funniest animation ever made.

thats why were to only studio doing these that have the blessing and participation of Fleischer Studios and the only one to receive the prestigious Gold Medal from the Classic Animation Preservation Society.

I highly recomend this product to any lovers of classic animation.

Who's the most phenominal, extra special kinda fellow?.......2004-07-07

I loved these when I was a kid - they were on every afternoon during the local kid's show from Ottawa - and seeing them again now, I can understand why I did! Do they stand the test of time - my three year old is asking for and eating spinach - and singing both Sindbad's song along with Abu Hassan's! (who I think Saddam Hussein based his schitck on - or maybe it was Donald Rumsfeld who used Popeye meets Ali Baba when he planned the invasion using special forces, i.e., Popeye in the run up to the Iraq War. I digress, but it does have comedic possibilities!)

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