How is it that in a huge city, Popeye's and Bluto's businesses always end up right next to each other? Here, it's The Boys working rivaling penny arcades. What’s worse, whoever's doing Bluto's voice sounds as though he's trying to imitate Popeye instead.
Wimpy, sans hamburger for a change, is unfortunate enough to be The Boys' only interested patron. All three parties get ripped off. Wimpy keeps borrowing pennies from The Boys to watch their own movies, which are the same at each arcade and are clips from Let's Get Movin' and The Twisker Pitcher, making this a "cheater" cartoon in every sense of the word.
(Oh, and you gotta love the nickelodeon that advertises "Bluto in Never Kick a Woman," a Popeye cartoon in which he never appeared. Call the Better Business Bureau!)
Best gag is the closing one, where Wimpy makes money selling tickets to Popeye and Bluto's inevitable grudge-match.
My rating:
© 2007, Steve Bailey.
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