Ration Fer the Duration
Ration Fer the Duration
| 28 May 1943 (USA)
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Popeye's planting a victory garden while his nephews are collecting worms for fishing. He berates them for wasting time, and tells them the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, which inspires them to plant beans. Popeye falls asleep, and dreams up a giant beanstalk. His nephews talk him into climbing to the top. Inside the giant's castle, Popee hides in the cuckoo clock and spots the giant hoarding sugar instead of gold; his hen lays tires, and his storehouses are full of other goods that were rationed in World War II. Popeye tries to walk out with a stack of tires, but the giant stops him, ultimately swatting him with a fly swatter and making him into a sandwich; the giant sprinkles Popeye with pepper, delaying the inevitable spinach briefly. Popeye defeats the giant, and gets him to sneeze all his tires into a carpet.

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Rijndri Load of rubbish!!
SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless
Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life
Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
Robert Reynolds This is an early Famous Studios Popeye cartoon. There will be spoilers ahead:This is a World War II-themed short, done to promote recycling for the war effort. This is pretty much an average short, with rather predictable gags.Popeye, patriotic fellow that he is, is planting a "victory garden" while his nephews are planning on sneaking off to go fishing. Popeye catches them and lectures them on not helping him plant their garden. He tells them a fractured version of the Jack and the Beanstalk fairy tale and they get to work while Popeye takes a nap and dreams the fairy tale, Popeye style.The giant turns out to be a hoarder and Popeye decides to get all his hoard for the war effort, but the giant catches him. Here, the short turns into a basic Popeye cartoon, with Popeye beating the giant and getting the hoard. That's when the boys wake him up and show him their garden. The end of the short is a pun-fest, a groan-induced one at that.This can be found and is worth watching once.
wilhelmurg Here's a classic WWII cartoon that humorously deals the the frustrations of wartime rationing via Jack and The Beanstalk, where The Giant is a hoarder and The Goose lays rubber tires instead of golden eggs. Disney had planned to do the fairy tale (it eventually become the "Mickey and The Beanstalk" section of the 1947 feature FUN AND FANCY) for a couple of years before this cartoon was released - Famous Studios beat Disney to this classic. It should be noted that the first 4 note of Beethoven's 5th Symphony can be heard in the opening and closing of this cartoon, and also when Popeye snores. The 4 notes' rhythm, "dit-dit-dit-dah," are the same as a "V" in Morse Code. During WWII the "V for Victory" campaign was to have people against the Nazis write or paint "V"s in occupied countries to let them know that their enemies were all around them. The BBC began using Beethoven's notes at the start of all their broadcasts to Europe and it became standard show of solidarity around the world for those oppresses by the Axis powers during WWII.
ccthemovieman-1 This was one of the better World War II Popeye cartoons because it was different. Instead of Popeye and the Japanese or the Germans fighting it out, it's about the home front during the War.It's about "Victory Gardens" and "rationing," things most of the people here on this website (including me) don't know much about.During the war, a ton of sacrifices were made by the folks at home, here in the United States (and other countries, friend and foe). This cartoon points them out via the famous fable of Jack And Beanstalk. Popeye meets up with the giant in that story and finds out the big guy is hoarding sugar, rubber and many other things. These kind of everyday products were "rationed" and people could only get so much during WWII. Those rations, and the Victory Garden, along with Popeye's nephews, all come together at the end of this story.Along the way, this was well-drawn and nicely directed. We saw some cool shots of the giant from the floor up and some overhead shots that were different.....little things that helped make this a good visual cartoon. Some of the puns in here were pretty corny but a number of them will make you smile.
Mary-18 Although the animation is quite simple, the story line is engaging and the visual puns actually fairly funny. It's true that by this time the Popeye cartoons seemed to be a decade behind what Disney or Warner Brothers were doing in animation, but if you're a Popeye fan or have an interest in wartime cartoons, this one is a small gem.