Gulliver's Travels (2010) - An Adventure for the Whole Family

“The Movie of a little guy with big dreams - Until a tall tale leads to a Huge Adventure” this leads me to watch this movie. Jack Black rocked one more time. This movie may reignite interest in the 300-year-old novel, but those who pick up the book after enjoying the movie are in for a surprise. This film takes more than a few liberties with Swift's original story.

Plot of the Movie: 

                  Gulliver (Jack Black) works in a mailroom at a New York newspaper company. While he is on an assignment in the Bermuda Triangle he hurtled to an undiscovered land, where he reinvents himself as the hero of Lilliputians by impressing them with his size. His newfound comrades use his enormous size to help defend the land of Lilliput from warring rivals.

In Jonathan Swift classic 'Gulliver's Travels', Lemuel Gulliver works in the mail room of a major New York newspaper, and he's secretly in love with the travel editor (Peet). To impress her, he bluffs about his supposed travel-writing experience, and so she sends him on a three-week assignment to pilot a boat into the Bermuda triangle to see what he finds.

In that mysterious journey he hits a storm and wakes up in Lilliput, where everyone is about 3 or 4 inches high and where the architecture, clothing and government are stuck in the mid-19th century. Gulliver is known as "the Beast" and is kept in chains, until he save the king there.

The humour what you expect from Jack Black is crude and incredibly soften his work. At one point in order to save a burning building Gulliver dispose down his pants in front of entire village and pisses all over the fire. Luckly to offset this crude humour the film is lidded with clever pop culture references.

The nice thing about Jack Black onscreen, in addition to his being funny, is that he really does seem to care about people. He's warm. So he's nicely placed as the plainspoken fellow who sees wrongs in Lilliput and wants to right them, including the princess' plans to marry an egotistical oaf instead of a sweet commoner (Jason Segel). As Gulliver, Black listens, thinks and offers advice. He's engaged and engaging.

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