Shelley Duvall was put on this earth for one reason, to act in this movie. No performance has ever captured the essence of a character so completely before or since.

Everyone goes hard in this movie. A rare example of a nothing project that turns into tour de force act. It's as if it was sculpted out of coke or something.

It's one of the most adorable, underrated movies I've ever seen in my life, and the set is still standing as a tourist attraction! (hihihi)

Composer Harry Nilsson along with all the rest (Altman, Duvall, Williams, the crew) turned in some real genius performances upon this one, too. Par exemple, check out the two versions of this classic song, played out in very different, but highly amusing ways--

Blow Me Down (Williams video):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOQM8kL5AMs

Blow Me Down (Nilsson audio):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZo2fdcZ6gw

What a cute little masterpiece, upon almost every possible direction. ❤️

My family owned this movie on VHS. I grew up watching it multiple times a year. I'm really quite fond of it. I was shocked as an adult when I looked up reviews of it on RT to see how poorly it was received.

Popeye goes surprisingly hard for what it is

For whatever reason Altman just turned it on up to 11 and it shows

Exact same here. It’s a family favorite of ours, we sing the songs together all the time.

She’s also excellent in The Shining, can’t imagine anyone else playing Wendy.

I recorded this movie onto VHS when it was playing on TV. I also learned a very important lesson about quality vs quantity. I tried using EP recording mode because it gave you the most amount of time, about 8 hours vs only getting 2 hours per tape in SP (only 2 hours? Geez, that sounds like the recording mode for suckers!) But when I went to watch it again the quality was so bad I really couldn't rewatch it. I think I still recorded all my Saturday morning cartoons in LP mode which wasn't too bad for quality and still let me get most of the morning's cartoons on tape.