Swimmer Take All (1952)

Directed by Seymour Kneitel Writing credits Carl Meyer (story) & Jack Mercer (story)

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As you watch this, you may ask yourself, "Is this trip really necessary?", 15 October 2003

Author: Robert Reynolds (llltdesq@webtv.net) from Tucson AZ

This isn't the worst Famous Studios Popeye short, not by a long shot. Far worse came several years down the road, when the staff seemed to stop really even trying to be even mildly entertaining. The problem with this one is that it isn't very funny-or much fun either. In spite of the three best voice actors the primary characters had in the series-Beck, Questal and the great Jack Mercer-the script and story are flat, the backgrounds not bad, but nothing to write home about, no real life in the gags, nothing memorable about the short to make it worth watching twice. Not bad enough to poke fun at, really. It's just there, nothing more. Any cartoon with Jack Mercer doing Popeye can't be all bad and this one has moments-but too few. I just wish it was funny. For completeists only.

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