oscaralbert Review of She-Sick Sailors

She-Sick Sailors (1944)

"What's the deal with 'Popeye' and Choo-Choo's . . . ?"

[7/10 · 10 December 2019]

. . . any viewer of the first 150 or so Super Sailor cartoons is bound to ask after seeing SHE-SICK SAILORS, which concludes with the cartoon series lead destroying his 17th train to date. (Not even Jesse James' gang took out THAT many speeding locomotives!) For the number of times "Olive" has allowed herself to be tied to railroad tracks in the Popeye series, one would think that she'd have equipped herself with cutting arms and razor leggings long before the events of SHE-SICK SAILORS unfold. But no such luck. This ditsy dame insists upon prancing around in skimpy "Please kidnap and ravage me"-type costumes, and exhibits the situational awareness of FINDING DORY's title fish as "Bluto" successfully makes off with her again and again. More often than not, her abductor immediately recognizes the folly of his daze, and affixes the ultra-thin bimbo to the tracks in an attempt to rid himself of her counter-intuitive temptation once and for all. However, Popeye always comes along at these inopportune times, and proves all thumbs while failing to undo Bluto's knot. Inevitably the spinach-fueled juggernaut destroys an oncoming train, crewmen, passengers, and all!