Although I agree with a lot of fanatic popeye fans that this cartoon is not so good compared to the oldies .... still this was enough enjoyable and most important it was the last to be produced from the last....century and more specific from....1987.
that's the case folks. it's 2021 and we never had any new popeye show in last like......35 years and counting excluding that cute (and also a must have) tv movie called......popeye's voyage the search for pappy.......which was made with CGI in 2004 but that was just ONE movie run for like 48 minutes and not a tv series.
so......popeye and son are the last official animation popeye series and that alone is reason to buy this for your collection.
furthermore it was not that bad and it tried smg different (music....characters,,,,,etc) but for those who complain about that they can always watch the great popeye oldies from the 30s....40s....50s and 60s.
in 1978 we got a somewhat different approach with the all new popeye show a.k.a popeye and friends (dvd title) which run for 3 seasons and in 1981 it was renamed the popeye and olive show which was cut down at a runtime of less than 30 minutes per episode and it included segments of a few solo olive episodes. that show ended in 1983 and since 1983 the only other popeye show we got was that 1987 show this review was about.
ALL IN ALL
if u are a fanatic popeye fan like me u should own the following ...
the 1933-1942 popeye black and white cartoons.......(available in dvd)
the 1940s popeye cartoons............(available in dvd)
the 1950s popeye cartoons............(not released in dvd yet)
the 1960s popeye cartoons...........(only vol 1 is released in dvd so far with one third of the total 220 episodes)
the popeye 75th anniv. edition three disc set ........(which have another 70 plus 1960s episodes so in total u get more than 120 episodes from the 60s as u get also a bunch of the same cartoons in this set and in the vol 1 of the 1960s dvd set).
The all new popeye hour 1978-1981............(there is not a complete series dvd for this yet but u can get a bunch of episodes in the popeye dvd with a yellow cover release with 18 episodes .....in the popeye and friends vol 1 dvd with 8 episodes......in the all new popeye and friends dvd......and in the all new popeye cartoons dvd among other releases. those four dvd releases are the best from the 1978 - 1981 era.
the popeye and olive show 1981-1983..............(there is only a blue color dvd cover with 6 episodes following olive in the army)
The popeye and son 1987..................(there are dvd releases from this show titles popeye and son AND popeye and friends vol 2 ((Australian only region 4 dvd release)).
finally the tv movie from 2004 I told u above which is available in a great dvd release with fantastic special features...a making of,....and four great shorts from the 1960s.
POPEYE RULES THE WORLD
ALL IN ALL
if u are a fanatic popeye fan like me u should own the following ...
the 1933-1942 popeye black and white cartoons.......(available in dvd)
the 1940s popeye cartoons............(available in dvd)
the 1950s popeye cartoons............(not released in dvd yet)
the 1960s popeye cartoons...........(only vol 1 is released in dvd so far with one third of the total 220 episodes)
the popeye 75th anniv. edition three disc set ........(which have another 70 plus 1960s episodes so in total u get more than 120 episodes from the 60s as u get also a bunch of the same cartoons in this set and in the vol 1 of the 1960s dvd set).
The all new popeye hour 1978-1981............(there is not a complete series dvd for this yet but u can get a bunch of episodes in the popeye dvd with a yellow cover release with 18 episodes .....in the popeye and friends vol 1 dvd with 8 episodes......in the all new popeye and friends dvd......and in the all new popeye cartoons dvd among other releases. those four dvd releases are the best from the 1978 - 1981 era.
the popeye and olive show 1981-1983..............(there is only a blue color dvd cover with 6 episodes following olive in the army)
The popeye and son 1987..................(there are dvd releases from this show titles popeye and son AND popeye and friends vol 2 ((Australian only region 4 dvd release)).
finally the tv movie from 2004 I told u above which is available in a great dvd release with fantastic special features...a making of,....and four great shorts from the 1960s.
POPEYE RULES THE WORLD