Popeye: Requiem Film Review

For some odd reason Popeye of all characters seems to be the in character to give a cheaply made horror film to this is despite the fact that an official big screen take on the character has been hard to pull off since the eighties. As now we have part two of a three part series of sequels with the final part also out right now and yeah if you've seen either Popeye's Revenge or Popeye Returns then you pretty much no what it is your going to be getting with bad film as even the worst of the original Popeye cartoons is better then this film and so then join me as I review the film that has a predictable reveal with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye: Requiem" enjoy.

The plot of this film is mere moments after being captured at the end of the second film Popeye once again escapes the military and it's up to a few survivors from the previous film to try and not only survive this latest attack but also call of a military air strike. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this film was in all honesty really bad. With this films plot at best being laughably bad and at it's worst just straight up not there with the films plot not even being so bad it's good it's just bad as it does feel like that the makers of this film had no idea of what kind of story that they wanted to tell and where just throwing stuff at the wall with none of it sticking. Heck the film doesn't even focus on it's plot alot of the time which does make the films plot feel secondary to the fact that they have a beloved kids character as the main villain which even then given the fact that there is a shockingly high amount of Popeye themed horror films doesn't even work as we the audience could just watch quite literally any of the other Popeye horror films and get a better plot therefor there really should have been more of an effort to give this film a better plot as this the middle part of a three film story and there's no story reason for this to be the case as what little plot there is in not only the previous film but also this film doesn't warrant being told over multiple parts with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Lara Sas as Cassie , Steven Murphy as Popeye , Fitim DeStena as Dylan and Danny Sains as Oscar. Also starring in this film is Marie Ann Watson as Dr. Bernard , Juliette Smith as Lindy , Arber Prendi as Questel , Christopher Morley as O'Brien , Graeme Muncer as Donnelly , Jack Hyde as Mendoza , Nathan Geering as Deitch , Amy Gibbons as Tina , Will Middleton as Malcolm , Mark Tunstall as Derek and Jessie Vinning as Kitty.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this film was in all honesty really bad. Look the fact that this film has as bad of acting as it is has is something that we do have to expect from these films not just the Popeye films but also films like The Mouse Trap and Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare as they all do have bad acting in them and the same thing is true for his film with even the actors that are returning from Popeye Returns and are or going to be in Popeye: Resurrection not being all that good in this film. With the best actor in the film being Lara Sas as Cassie as while she doesn't get to do a whole lot in this film especially when compared to the previous film she is still in the film alot and alot of her scenes in the film are decently acted and while her acting in this film isn't that good when compared to the rest of the films actors however it does come off as being alot more better as you can tell that she is trying to turn in a good performance with her treating the film like it's going to be a big break for her when it's obviously not as no one is going to be seeing this film and it will just get lost in the shuffle of all the Popeye themed horror films out there therefor there was no need for her treat this film as if it's going to lead to something bigger with her natural charm shining through in her performance. With the acting that's in this film not really being helped by he fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Character wise this films characters are just as bland , dull , boring and forgettable as you'd think that they would be. As all of them are badly done characters which for the new characters is fine as they are just there to serve as victims for Popeye but it's also the same thing for the returning characters as none of this films characters have anything interesting about them that makes you want to like and want to get to know more about as the film doesn't take the time to let you get to know and to let them become more then then trope that they are hoping to be as Dylan is still the hold over character from Popeye's Revenge and Cass is still just a blank slate that does whatever the plot tells her to do even if it's against what little character she has in the first place. To be frank it does feel like that the writers of these films spent a weekend writing up all of the scripts as the characters are that bare bones with this being something that makes it obvious that the makers of this film didn't care about making a genuinely good film they cared more about making a cheaply made cash grab of a film with that being something that does shine through in the films characters as they very easily could have fixed this films characters by doing a rewrite of the films script as then they would have the chance to fix any and all issues with both the script and its characters and yet due to the fact that they didn't care about that they just left the characters as bare bones characters and while yes alot of the slasher films of eighties also did exactly that those films were making those tropes in the first place and not following them with even alot of them having fun with those tropes once they started to become popular whereas here tho it does feel like that they just weren't that bothered to make interesting characters and were just hoping that people will like the film because of the fact that a beloved kids character is the main villain.

This film is the middle part of a three part storyline and it really didn't need to be three films long as unlike Avengers: Infinity War or any two part film this film as well as Popeye Returns and Popeye: Resurrection don't have a story that is worth telling across as three film. With the whole point of doing a multipart film being to tell a story that can't be told in one film and yet you could very easily tell the stories of these films in one film as the story being told what little there is isn't big enough to demand multiple films yet for some odd reason the makers of these Popeye sequels thought that this is a story that does demand alot of films all of which being released very close together to tell there story and it just makes you wonder what they were thinking when they came up with that idea. With this film being the middle part of the story and yet there's nothing in this film that raises the stakes of the story and that makes you want to watch part 4 as while they do start something with the military almost bombing the area where the main characters are the character do end up stopping that when that is is something that could make for a great hook for part 4 with the one of the few decent things in the film being the fact that the film doesn't waste anytime in setting up things for Popeye: Resurrection which is something that is very easily could have dine and is something that alot of two part movies do do with there first part and yet this film dose still come of as being really bad despite the fact that it's not one long trailer or the next film as it's clear as day that due to the fact that all of these films were filmed together that all of the best or hopefully best stuff is going to be in the final film by which point it will be to little to late as no one would have cared enough about the characters to see all of the good stuff as the makers of this film didn't give us a reason to care for there characters in the first place.

For some odd reason this film pretty much stops about half way threw after it's killed off alot of the army characters to introduce to us these new characters. Which does come out of nowhere with alot of there early scenes adding nothing to the film with them being this family that have gone on a camping holiday and that's literally the only thing we find out about them other then the fact that one of them is dating an American girl and it's just weird that the film would replace these decent but not good characters with these new characters that they then have to rush in setting up this wouldn't be an issue if they were appearing in the fourth film but the only one that survives this film isn't even going to be in the next one. This is something that does make there inclusion in this film feel all the more pointless as there early scenes in the film feel like a completely different movie when compared to the rest of the film heck given how the first half act of the film goes it feels more like an ending to Popeye's Revenge then the opening of this film which begs the question why not just put those scenes in that film and get that film up to one hour and thirty minuets and then start this film with a small time jump before then getting into the rest of the film with the family surely that would have been alot more better then cramming in more characters into this film and making this film feel very over stuffed with characters as all this ends up doing is making sure that no one in the audience can like any of the films new characters as they all have to fight for screen time with each other and heck even the films central villain Popeye disappears for a large portion of the film because of the fact that the film now has to set up who these new and quite frankly boring new characters are. 

There is a really painfully obvious reveal in this film that when it first got hinted at and I saw the look of Dylan I knew right away what was going to be happen and sure enough it happens. The film introduces this new injection that the military have been working on to make soldiers stronger called Bluto and the second that it wa brought up in this film and you see the Dylan looks alot like Bluto from Popeye you just know exactly what's going to happen and sure enough in the films third act he injects himself with it and fights Popeye this was such a predictable reveal that it's quite honestly laughable as they do make the actor that plays Dylan look roughly like how we expect Bluto to look with them both having big beards and a hatred of Popeye and therefor when it does happen it's not that shocking as you already knew it was coming with the other plot reveal being one that does actually work even tho it was that you kind of work out when the scene is going on as the film does strongly hint at Dr. Bernard being Popeye and Olive's mother as yes Olive Oyl is meant to be Popeye's sister in these films it was something that they did back in Popeye's Revenge and the character is meant to be showing up in Popeye: Resurrection as they do say that there mother got pregnant with them after being exposed to some chemicals with Dr. Bernard saying that she should have killed Popeye when he was in the womb which does all but confirm that she is his mother and going by Google it does seem as if he did have a mother called Irene but she only appeared in alternative comic book backstories therefor it's not out of the realm of possibility that this version of Popeye also has a mother with that reveal actually being better done then he reveal of Dylan basically transforming himself into Bluto to take on Popeye one on one.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eleven minuets and thirty seconds. Which yeah is never a good sign when the middle part of your trilogy is not even a feature length running time as there is so much story that could have been covered in this film and so much that needed to get done to make the next film work and yet due to how short that both this film and the previous film is none of that leg work can be done with even the next film having a very similar running time to it all of this does hit home the fact that the makers of this film just didn't care enough to make these films as good as they could have because if they did then they would have given the films a longer running time heck even Darbie's Screamhouse is longer then this film is and that film was meant to be bad with this film just barely having more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place. With thus film not even using it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot due to the fact that the film not only barely focuses on it's plot with the film being more bothered about focusing on this new family for literally no reason but the film also barely has a plot to begin with this is something that really could have been fixed if the makers of this film did a re-write of the films terrible script with the makers of this film being more focused on shoving this random family down our throats then they are in giving us a well developed plot. This is something that des also effect the films character development as this is the film where all of the returning characters except for Popeye should have gotten some form of character development and yet none of them do with all of the films characters ending the film in the exact same way that they started the film with the makers of his film being more focused on not giving us alot of Popeye rather then giving its characters some actual character development but I really will admit that this film really does gave some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With us getting to see alot of the kills in this film and while granted none of the kills look all that impressive that is more due to the films tiny budget then anything else with the one thing that lets all of the kills down in this film being the fact that two characters survive getting stabbed in the back by Popeye one of which was stabbed in the back with a harpoon gun this is something that shouldn't have happend as all it does cheapen wat could have been a really good kill all for no reason whatsoever. With the best kill in the whole entire film being the death of Popeye as a fully transformed Dylan takes on Popeye one on one with the pair of them having a pretty decent fight for its budget with all the while Cass and Lindy are trying to escape this empty military compound so that they can tell the military not to bomb them all the while Popeye and Dylan are still fighting each other with neither one really getting the upper with it only being when the fight nears its end that Dylan does finally get the upper hand and crushes Popeye's skill in with some impressive make up being put to good use and while this is a much more funnier kill in the film that kill is only funny due to how bad it is whereas the death of Popeye is just so cool to look at and while it doesn't redeem the film at all it does make the ending more then worth watching with the rest of the films kills being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this film is nowhere near as bad as Darbie's Screamhouse was this still a really bad film and that the fact that there's one more of these films out does make you wonder how bad that that film is going to be as this is film that close to being bottom of the barrel trash in my freaking opinions anyway / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 0.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as or where I personally got all of the images hat I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.

Popeye Returns Film Review

Just when you thought that the days of very cheaply made horror films that happen to have a cartoon character as the villain were gone we get another one. With this oddly enough being a sequel to the film Popeye's Revenge and what's more then that is the fact that there are further TWO sequels to this film already in post production and are coming out some time this year and so then join me as I review the film is just a big load of nothing with the film in question being called simply just "Popeye Returns" enjoy.

The plot of this film is eight years after the events of the of the first film Popeye starts targeting the one lone survivor from the first film whilst also being hunted down himself by a group of government army men who want to keep him locked up. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. Look to be real this films plot is just so bad as even tho it is a very extremely thin plot alot of the time it does feel like that the film doesn't have a plot to begin with with it feeling like the film is just a bunch of scenes loosely tied together. Popeye's Revenge for all of it's faults at the very least had a plot yes granted it was a bad plot but it was still a plot with a beginning , a middle and an end here we barely get a beginning before the film ends which makes it more baffling as to why the makers of this film decided to stretch this thin plot over THREE films when doing it in just one film would have worked all the more better, there is nothing redeemable about this films plot as it is a very lazy plot that the makers of this film should feel ashamed about and while yes granted these B movie horror films never have te best of plots to them in the first place but they still will nine out of ten have a plot to begin with and when this film can't even do that right then it right away is a huge red flag as now we the audience have no reason to get invested in the films plot as the makers of the film themselves aren't even bothering to make it good in the first place with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Ashley Bedford as Dave , Jodie Bennet as Milly , Fitim DeStena as Dylan and Harriet Hope as Jen. Also starring in this film is Jack Hyde as Mendoza , Celine Mandy Kosch as Mindy , Olivia Lennox as Alice , Bannister Doll Heist star Christopher Morley as O'Brien , Skullhunter star Steven Murphy as Popeye , Ever After star Lara Sas as Cassie , Liz Stef as June and Jenna Wilson as Alina.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. Again you do expect these types of films to have bad acting in them as the main reason to watch these films is never the acting it's always what they are going to be with the cartoon character that they are turning into the main villain and that's that which is fair enough but there still needs to be some amount of effort put into the acting to make it worth while as while yes alot of this films actors are indeed trying to turn in a good performance they are let down by poor directing from this films editor and director William Stead with the only actor who really can't take any blame as it is her first proper acting job being Celine Mandy Kosch. With the best actor in this film being Steven Murphy as Popeye as he is the only actor reprising his role from Popeye's Revenge therefor he does have a good grip on how best to perform as this character which is a skill that does put to great use in this film with him having a certain charm about him does make you wonder what it is that this character can really do which is something that really does shine through in his final performance. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

The films characters much like pretty much everything in this film are really nothing to write home about. As all of this films character are for lack of a better word forgettable as there is nothing about them that makes them stand out as they all feel like character tropes and not fully formed characters with this being something that does make sense as this film would have been cheaply and quickly with the other two films but there still should have been more time spent in making these characters appear to somewhat memorable as the only character who is slightly memorable is Cassie and even then it's due to the fact that she's the main final girl of the film and not due to anything she says or does in the film itself. As none of her friends are that memorable infact they all just blend into one and Alice herself due to the share nature of character can't be that memorable of a character with the only character who is memorable is rightfully the films title killer Popeye and even he doesn't get alot of screen time in this film with him feeling like a side character in his own movie and yet what little screen time the character does have in the film he does do something that's more memorable then the rest of the characters and heck it could even be argued that Popeye is the films best character as while there isn't all that much to him as a character there is still an attempt to make him a decent character whereas with any of the films other characters it felt like that they were there just so Popeye had people to kill and not because of the fact that they added anything to the films story, these characters are the kinds of characters that you would expect to see in the first draft of a script and while this film might not have had the budget to do a re-write it really did need one just to fix up how poorly handled alot of this films characters are even when not being compared to Popeye.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this film is a sequel to the film Popeye's Revenge however you don't have to see that film as the film spends a good few minuets early on in the film playing alot of the third act final battle from that film. This was just such a stupid thing to do as all it does is make it more obvious that the makers of this film didn't really have much of a plot and are just using those scenes not to catch up with the plot as the girl who is meant to be a survivor from those attacks wasn't even in the film in the first place and there those scenes just feel like they were added to the film so that the makers of this film could truly market this film as a sequel as there is nothing from that film that appears in this film outside of having the same actor playing Popeye and one reference to the previous film at the start of the film and that's it. For all of the hate that Silent Night Deadly Night 2 gets for just being a glorified clip show of the first film they still made a logical attempt to connect the two films together where as here there is none of that as it does feel like that the makers of this film had no idea on what to do for a sequel and therefor they just came up with the laziest thing over one night and called it a day, now I admittedly haven't seen Popeye's Revenge since it first came out therefor my memory on the ending is a little hazy but it there might have been away to do a direct sequel to that film and still have it play a bigger part in the bigger plot that they are trying to tell just by having the survivors of the previous film be the runs that are helping these new characters out as given the fact that the apparent lone survivor is meant to be related to the main character of the previous film it does make sense that she would come back to help her out in this film whilst also hinting that there are bigger things at play by having Popeye not only trying to kill these character but also working on Spinach that would help him stronger and more insane that right there connects the two films together and sets up a bigger plot better then what this film actually does.

Let's take a second to talk about the editing because of you thought that William Stead made for a great editor then you'd be wrong. As this film is edited so poorly with us barely being able to make out anything that happens as there are alot of cuts going on in any given scene with no scene being given the room that it needs to breath and for us the audience to truly soak in what's happening which does make alot of this film a very confusing mess to follow and heck even the ending to Popeye's Revenge is edited in a way that it does make it look like one of the characters in this film was the main character from the previous film when a simple search of Google tells you differently the only thing that could have made the editing in this film be all the more better was if William Stead just took his time in certain scenes and not rush or cut them to the high heavens as all this does is leave your audience confused as to what's actually happening in the film. Something that was also mentioned at the start of this review is the fact that this film has two other sequels coming out and yeah you really can tell as the film doesn't even properly finish telling it's own story is just fades to black before a "To Be Continued" card pops up with this film quite literally being nothing more then set up for the other two films which wouldn't be a bad thing if this film was actually good in the first place but it's not therefor people are less likely to watch films 3 and 4 in this Popeye's Revenge franchise as the first two films have made it clear as day that they are bad films and yet if the makers of this film put in alot of thought and effort into making this film not only good but also stand on it's own without the need for the other 2 films then people what be excited to watch the other two films as they would have seen just how good that the makers of this film can be.

While the previous film at the very least made an attempt to connect it self to the Popeye lore by also giving us a more Harley Quinn-esque version of Olive Oyl. Here we only get one reference to Bluto at the start of the film this might be because he could be playing a bigger role in one of the sequels with his name being shown to us here as a way to set up that that name could becoming back later on down the line which is fair enough but there still needs to be more of a tie to the Popeye lore then just having Popeye in it like maybe they they could have Whimpy show up granted this isn't much but it would be better then nothing at all but in all fairness the idea of having Bluto play a bigger role in one of the sequels does make sense given the fact that in the original comics and cartoons he and Popeye are meant to be enemies. This film is just one big helping of nothing as that's exactly what happens for alot of the film nothing happens to the advance the plot of the film , the characters are poorly done and the editing is terrible granted its not as bad as it was in Taken 3 but it is still pretty bad and while we do need to give these films more of a leeway when it comes to how they are made as these films are usually made cheaply and quickly but we still do need to call them out when they do something that's just flat out bad like for example the film does build up a mystery over who this guy is that appears at the start of the movie but then disappears for so long that you actually forget that he's in the movie with film making us think that he's either tied to one of the characters in the previous film due to how certain scene are edited or the fact he is Bluto only for it to be revealed that he's jus a guy which makes that entire subplot feel pointless as the makers of this film very easily could have said who he was right away instead of having him appear once and then forgotten about for at the very least forty minuets to only then reveal that he's not that important of a character.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eight minuets and twelve seconds. Which for any film let alone one of these low budget horror films is such a short amount of running tike for the film to have and given the fact that the film does send more time on setting up things for the third and fourth films then it does in actually telling it's own story altho in saying this maybe the film being this short is a blessing in the disguise as it does mean that we get to be out of this film in alot less time but this film still should a longer running time just to flesh out alot of its own ideas and alot of it's characters and not just have them pushed to the side to set up the other two films with this film no even having enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. With the film not even using what little running time that it already has very wisely as the film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the plot of the film as very very wafer thin at best with it feeling more like the plot to someones bad fanfiction only now it's the plot of a film and what's worse is the fact that if this film did deed dedicate more time to its plot and fully developed it then it could have worked but its made clear as day that the makers of this film cared about giving us pointless flash back scenes that they did about giving us a fully developed plot. This is something that does also effect the films character development as due to the fact that the films opening flashback to the previous film eats up a good three to five minuets and the fac that we get a pointless flashback to the eighties which eats up five minuets on its own then this films character are not only fighting for screen time due to there being far to many characters for a film this long to have in the first place but it does also mean that none of them can get any sort of character development with the makers of this film making it perfectly clear that they are more interested in setting up the sequels instead of giving us well thought out and developed character but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a slasher film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual kills that are actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really bad. It's in the films kill where we really do get to see just how small that this films budget really was as they all commit that single biggest sin that any slasher film can commit when it comes to there kills and that's the fact that alot of this films kills happen OFF SCREEN we will see Popeye raise a weapon to kill people with but then the film cuts away just as he is about to land the finishing blow which is something that would be fine for one or two kills but no all of this films kills are like. Heck this happens to so often that the film can't even have a best kill because we never get to see what it is that kills them off in the first place and yet even alot of the really bad horror films still let us see what it is that kills of there victims granted this might be the case because of the fact that the other two films were being made at the same time but if your going to be making a slasher film then you need to show us the kills that is slasher film making 101 with the closest thing to a kill that we actually see being in the opening scene where a girl gets her head trampled by Popeye which is a cool kill but even that one we don't get to see all that much of and therefor we really aren't scared for the rest of the film with the rest of the films kills being just as bad as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall it really is telling when the best live action filmed version of Popeye the one from 1980 never got a sequel and yet one of the many Popeye horror films not only got a bad sequel but is also getting two other films with this film not really does a good job of getting you excited of the third film in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 0 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boy and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Tenor , Amazon . Co  Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get images from this film being Google Images simply because Google Images actually has images from this film really are up and on Google Images and plus pretty much much all of the images that I personally found on Google Images were all really very fairly high quality and as well as being as really very fairly high definition as well and so then horror fans we end this review as we always do with really our one and true goddess Elvira wishing us all some really very unpleasant dreams.