10. "Popeye"
What do you get when you build a city-sized set on the Mediterranean island of Malta and hire Harry Nilsson to write songs titled “Everything is Food” and “I Yam What I Yam”? You get the 1980 adaptation of "Popeye," a film—nay, a musical!—long on ambition but fatally short on entertainment.
The casting of Robin Williams alone should have lent the production a champion’s glow, but most of his lines are unintelligible and the film ends up a delirious mess that’s equal parts “Treasure Island” and “Heidi.”
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