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Gulliver's Travels is about as marginal as the trailers suggest; it's a tepidly entertaining, irreverent, and sometimes crass comedy starring Jack Black that takes some gigantic liberties with Jonathan Swift's classic story about the land of Lilliput and its tiny inhabitants. Mailroom loser Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is stuck in a dead-end job and living a dead-end life until the promotion of a fellow employee spurs him to speak up and take action. While a trip to the Bermuda Triangle may not be the date with crush Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) that Gulliver had envisioned, the voyage promises to take his career in a new direction, and it eventually delivers him to a kingdom known as Lilliput, which is populated by miniature people. After initially being captured and locked away in a dungeon, Gulliver wins the hearts of the Lilliputian people by saving their princess (Emily Blunt) from being kidnapped and rescuing their king (Billy Connolly) from a fire in a most unorthodox and unsavoury way, and he quickly finds himself in a position of gigantic influence. Problem is, Gulliver is completely unprepared and unqualified for his new leadership roles, both on the personal and professional levels, and his ineptitude puts himself and all of Lilliput in extreme danger. Grade-school humour abounds in this fairly mindless film, something Jack Black always excels at, but viewers will find that the chuckles and the message about the power of believing in oneself fade equally as fast as the credits roll. (Ages 9 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
DVD Description
A fast-paced comedy adventure showing what can happen when you go up in the world....literally! Jack Black stars as Lemuel Gulliver, an underachieving mail room worker who finds himself washed ashore the fantasy land of Lilliput, populated by a tiny civilisation known as Lilliputians. With the Lilliputians having no idea of the modern world Gulliver is able to reinvent himself as their hero by impressing them with his size, superior knowledge and incredible inventions like the iPod.
Special Features:
- Gag reel
- Deleted scenes
- I Don't Know With... Lemuel Gulliver
- Little and Large
- Jack Black Thinks Big
- Down Time
- Gulliver's Foosball Challenge
- War Song Dance
- Fox Movie Channel Presents: In Character Jack Black
- Fox Movie Channel Presents: In Character Jason Segal
- Life After Film School: Rob Letterman of Gulliver's Travels
- World premiere
- Theatrical trailer
- Rio international trailer
- The Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage of The Dawn Treader international trailer
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Typical Jack Black!,
By mummy spoon (South Yorkshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gulliver's Travels [DVD] (DVD)
It is exactly what you would expect from a Jack Black film, yes it's silly and a little immature but it was funny and we all thoroughly enjoyed it .
What did it's critics expect it to be like , the leading man tells you all you need to know, if you like his stuff, you will love it, it is one of his best performances, but if you don't, watch something else.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Probably it will make children smile. Bur it is obvious and only for the box office response.,
By brunella (Scotland,UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Gulliver's Travels [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)
When will Jack Black stop playing lovable slackers who inexplicably bust out at least one musical number per film? Gulliver's Travels is pretty much exactly what you're expecting it to be - adequate, and absolutely nothing more. Excellent visual effects and some well-crafted supporting performances save it from total failure, but all this film really manages is to remind you that in Hollywood, as in Lilliput, bigger isn't always better.
Lemuel Gulliver (Black) is a likeable guy who just doesn't have the drive to be anything more than a slacker mail room clerk, nor the courage to ask out the girl (Peet) he really loves. When she gives him a shot at her heart and success, it takes him to the Bermuda Triangle where he is sucked down a plughole portal into the land of Lilliput, where for the first time in his life he gets to be the biggest guy in town. What follows this contrived set-up is a pretty lacklustre mix of fantasy adventure meets crazy comedy and it never truly gels together. Jack Black is strictly on PG rated auto-pilot. There are a few crude jokes for the teens on his behalf involving bum cracks and wee, and plenty of gags aimed at the little nippers in the audience, but nothing nearly as sharp or witty as you might have hoped for. The considerable comic talents of Billy Connolly and Catherine Tate as the King and Queen of Lilliput are wasted in roles that give them nothing funny or particularly interesting to say or do - Connolly, in particular, looks like he's given up on life. The majority of laughs come courtesy of Chris O'Dowd as General Edward, who is spot on playing a dutiful, arrogant berk and eventual villain (and, thankfully, gets enough screen time to compensate for the lack of laughs elsewhere). Together with Emily Blunt's superb comic timing as Princess Mary, he saves much of the film. The only consistent pleasure of this movie is the amazing special effects that seamlessly blend the giant Jack Black and the tiny townsfolk into shot after shot. The 3D element is take it or leave it, as it often is with movies these days. I personally could do without 3D being added to every single film just for the sake of it; when I took off the glasses and left the cinema, I couldn't walk in a straight line for a few minutes. Imagine six year old kids hyped up on sugar and trying to find their balance outside in the foyer - that image alone is, alas, funnier than the entire film. Louis Ackerman School Of Rock [DVD] [2004]
2.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Gulliver's Travels [DVD] (DVD)
Went to see this film in the cinema with my 7 and 9 year old. We all found it quite boring and I was glad when it was over. Would not recommend.
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