This movie makes me feel strange

Popeye has a lot of sad, somber moments, but I never felt anything dark while watching the film. I find it very interesting that to you it feels sinister. It makes me want to play the songs from the film backwards! :)

Does it make you feel strange in your pants

How did you feel when Olive got raped by the octopus

"Halp!! Halp!!"

There is a sinister undertone: The town is run by evil and everything, every product, every action, every behavior, is controlled, regulated, taxed. Freedom is really squashed. I have always seen it as an allegory of the fall of humankind and humanity's consequent predicament, having to deal with the entanglements of original sin.

I guess I started to see it when the citizens of that crooked little town set on the rocks, Sweethaven, were singing about how "God must love us ... why else would he put us here? ... where the air is clear."

For me, the father's treasure was the answer. Whereas everyone expected a conventional treasure, gold and silver, the treasures in his chest were the photos and memorabilia of his son. If you want to go to heaven, that is what you will get, love. The streets of heaven may be paved with gold, but they just walk on it up there; it's no big deal, nothing to fight over.

Yeah, I totally know what you mean. This movie is just so bizarre. It' very nightmarish and to me feels like something between a cringe-worthy wedding toast and a horrible car accident. The music, the story, the setting, everything is really really weird. I still like it though. The strangest thing is; this set is still up and running as a tourist attraction in Malta.

It WAS a bit dark. But the cartoons were that way. Did you watch the Popeye cartoons?

Yeah i agree with you, there is something about this movie that makes me uneasy too, the scene in the restaurant with the everything is food song played kind of gave me a weird feeling, I can't explain it. Also the scene with Bluto eating that huge meat bone, geez he was like an animal!

For me it's like no one in Sweethaven actually communicates. There's very little actual conversation in the film. It all sounds like quasi-nonsensical background chatter.. Everyone's walking around mumbling and not listening to anyone else. Seems like all the characters are stuck in their own futile pursuits.