Spinach Fer Britain (1943)
A German sub destroys a rowboat, a buoy, and another German sub. Meanwhile, Popeye, with a boat full of "spinach fer Britain", rams into the sub by accident. The sub cuts Popeye's ship in half with machine-gun fire, separating him from the spinach; it then sends a torpedo into the remains, which Popeye collects in a rowboat. Popeye spins the sub upside down, then ends up in a mine field.
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This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.
The greatest movie ever made..!
The acting in this movie is really good.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Well, this World War II cartoon makes fun of the "Nutzis," as Popeye calls the Nazis and has our Sailor Guy take a real beating before opening his can of spinach and taking charge.Prior to his triumph of delivering a small ship's worth of spinach to 10 Downing Street in Great Britain, Popeye and his ship get blown up five times! Yeah, the Germans in their submarines really give it it him big-time. Part of the problem was that Popeye thought all those holes in his ship were just made by a big woodpecker! Finally, he wakes up and states, "That was so woodpecker; it's a subterini!" Sometimes our hero sounds like Curly of the Three Stooges.The cartoon mocks the Germans and their use of the "Heil Hitler" salute. These are okay to be shown on TV today, but the anti-Japanese movies are banned, I have read.
Popeye was given a mission in delivering a shipment of spinach to Great Britain. The only problem is that there's a Nazi sub roaming around destroying everything in sight.And they've set their targets on Popeye's boat of spinach. He'll need to get past them and a field of mines in order to succeed in his mission.Will our American sailor be able to save the spinach. And what with England do without the spinach? It's a common WW2 cartoon. With a use of entertainment, but it's no where near being a classic like other Popeye and WW2 cartoons.And like other average WW2 cartoons, it coexists due to it having Nazis in it.
Popeye is sailing out for Britain to provide the people there with well needed spinach to fight of the Germans. While sailing there, he has an encounter with a German U-boot which destroys his ship. Popeye takes his revenge, wiping out the nazi's and taking the spinach in the U-boot to Downing Street ten.Reasonable propaganda piece from the World War II age, with stereotypical dumb and cruel Germans beaten heavily by our spinach loving sailor. The animation is black and white, but well done, as there isn't much to complain about in this short cartoon. Though there isn't much to enjoy either, I must admit.So and so on the whole, but check it out if you're interested in cartoons from that era. 6/10.
This short, one of a handful done by Paramount Famous Studios in black and white, is fairly effective propaganda and uses the black and white to best advantage with shadows and shadings. While the overall value of even a rowboat full of spinach versus, say, munitions, to Britain at that time and place is an open question, Popeye's patriotic fervor is not. An excellent use of Popeye for the war effort. Well worth tracking down. Recommended.