Gulliver's Travels Movie Reviews

Don't even think this is going to be an encounter with Jonathan Swift's 18th-century classic that makes for an excellent read even today. Jack Black's Gulliver is a born-again hero who tries to grab eyeballs in a post-Avatar world as Gavatar. And when he's not gassing about surviving the Titanic tragedy, he is busy trying to convince the quaint Lilliputians of his larger-than-life status as the First Citizen of the Island of Manhattan!

If 18th century writer Jonathan Swift [ Images ] had watched the silver screen adaptation of his satire Gulliver's Travels, it would not have come as a surprise if he walked out, shamelessly torn, and pathetically teary.Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black, pitiful) has lots of unexpressed love for travel editor Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) of a New York daily. Desperate to woo her, mailroom employee Gulliver embarks on a travel writing assignment

I must admit I've never really read the unabridged un-watered down version of Jonathan Swift classic, Gulliver's Travels. My first introduction to Gulliver and the Lilliputians came through the Illustrated Classics version and another kiddie version that only gave you a basic gist of the main story. That said, having Jack Black playing the eponymous albeit reluctant hero of the yarn sounded like a lot of no-strings-attached fun. On paper, at least...

It's only in the hands of Hollywood that Gulliver would travel to Lilliput and Brobdingnag to basically make the journey from a newspaper office’s mail room to the editor’s cabinet and to get the girl. It’s only in the hands of Hollywood that Gulliver would be considered noble and valiant for basically saving the king and the kingdom by “releasing” himself on them during a fire. It’s only in the hands of Hollywood that underpants would be exposed