UK Release Date: December 26th 2010
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Director: Rob Letterman (Shark Tale, Monsters vs. Aliens)
Starring: Jack Black, Jason Segel, Emily Blunt, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, Chris O'Dowd, James Corden, Catherine Tate
Jack Black being Jack Black works well... in small doses, unless his personality suits the film. In the likes of School of Rock and Tropic Thunder it does, but in this new version of Gulliver's Travels, it does not.
His slapstick humour gets boring quickly, probably up until the point where Gulliver (Black) ends up in the small city of Lilliput. Gulliver is a mail man for a newspaper company who's going through the mill, not doing much with his life, until he's asked by editor Darcy (Peet) to travel the Bermuda Triangle and document his findings. Anything to impress the love of his life, although it would have saved him (and essentially us) a great deal of time and effort had he announced his crush on her in the first place!
In the land of Lilliput, we have King Billy Connolly, General Chris O'Dowd, princess Emily Blunt and suitor of the princess Jason Segel. All are gullible and believe everything that Gulliver tells them. This is a perfect opportunity for JB to do what he does best, for him.
Out of all the talent that's before us, Blunt is the only one that helps Gulliver's Travels hold its unsteady course. This work is merely an advertising film for other 20th Century Fox films (Avatar, Star Wars, X-Men). Author Jonathan Swift would surely be turning in his grave, knowing the damage this has done to his book.
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