Gulliver's Travels (2010)
Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 116
Fresh: 24 | Rotten: 92
Though Jack Black is back doing what he does best, Gulliver's Travels largely fails to do any justice to its source material, relying instead on juvenile humor and special effects.
Average Rating: 3.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 25
Though Jack Black is back doing what he does best, Gulliver's Travels largely fails to do any justice to its source material, relying instead on juvenile humor and special effects.
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Jack Black stars in the 20th Century Fox adaptation of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels with this fantasy-filled comedic production. This take on the timeless tale revolves around a shipwrecked mailroom clerk (Black) who discovers an island in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle where he is the biggest occupant in comparison to its tiny inhabitants. Shark Tale's Rob Letterman directs from a script by Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Nick Stoller and Joe Stillman (Shrek). ~ Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi
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Cast
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Jack Black
Lemuel Gulliver -
Jason Segel
Horatio -
Emily Blunt
Princess Mary -
Amanda Peet
Darcy Silverman -
Billy Connolly
King Theordore -
Chris O'Dowd
General Edward -
T.J. Miller
Dan -
James Corden
Jinks -
Catherine Tate
Queen Isabelle -
Emmanuel Quatra
King Leopold -
Olly Alexander
Prince August -
Richard Laing
Nigel Travel Writer -
David Sterne
Foreman -
Stewart Scudamore
Blefuscian Captain -
Jonathan Aris
Lilliputian Scientist -
Jake Nightingale
Blefuscian Sentry 1 -
Okezie Morro
Blefuscian Sentry 2 -
Christopher Middleton
Blefuscian Sentry 3 -
Danni Benattar
Giant Princess -
Bradley Steve Ford
Boy 1 -
Noah St. Bean
Boy 2 -
Zachary Harris
Boy 3 -
Charlize Hyams
Girl 1 -
Nieve Stenton
Girl 2 -
Rafiella Brooks
Girl 3 -
Robert Gilbert
Mark -
Harry Peacock
Lilliputian Royal Guard -
Gemma Whelan
Lilliputian Rose -
Ian Porter
Business Desk Editor -
Stink Fisher
Construction Worker -
Bentley Kalu
New York Tribune Staffe... -
Meredith Vieira
Lilliputian -
Joe Lo Truglio
Butt-crack Man -
Christopher Lee Shefstad
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All Critics (118) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (94) | DVD (6)
[A] dumb excuse for a movie.
Top CriticThere is laziness at every turn -- in the writing, in the acting, in the filmmaking. Don't reward these yahoos.
I will tell you there's a cast credit for a character described only as "Butt-crack man." Consider yourself warned.
The film stumbles along a predictable path, and there is an audible wince when Gulliver says, "These little people have grown large in my heart."
Some films are phoned in. The staggeringly awful "Gulliver's Travels" was texted.
"Gulliver's Travels" is one of those movies that falls between complete disaster and loads of fun. Mild amusement is probably about right.
The over the top performances of the well-spoken Lilliputians, and even that of Jack Black, go a long way towards helping make the movie better, but sadly, they just couldn't save the material from itself.
Despite its broad strokes of goofball, sometimes gross-out comedy tailored to Black's gonzo style, the movie does echo some of the classic novel's farcical observances.
This version of 'Gulliver's Travels' is strictly for the little people.
It's a product for undemanding children to consume, one they'll forget pretty quickly after leaving the theater.
There aren't many reasons to see Gulliver's Travels. In trying to fill several different identities, it fails at all of them.
Alternately yawningly obvious and under-sketched, the movie never settles on a consistent tone, or takes full comedic advantage of its big-man-in-a-small-land opportunity for steady physical comedy.
A star-studded re-imagining of a classic piece of literature that shoots for the moon, aims for laughs and misses both targets by a country mile.
Jack Black used to be so cool.
Jack Black's abridged version of Jonathan Swift's famed epic fairs slightly better than other recent family adaptations. It's silly and occasionally funny -- not bad for a movie starring a guy who saves an entire city with his urine.
Lilliputian in wit and Brobdingnagian in wretchedness...
Black himself is the whole show here.
As disinterested in itself as Gulliver's Travels seems to be, it's a wonder it ever came into existence at all.
Audience Reviews for Gulliver's Travels
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- Lemuel Gulliver: There's no small jobs - just small people.
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- Lemuel Gulliver: I'm not doing this. You got me in a diaper and a dress. I'm not doing tea time with you! Go find another doll!
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Foreign Titles
- Gullivers Reisen - Da kommt was Großes auf uns zu (DE)
- Gulliver's Travels (UK)
