kogrone This movie was pathetic - such a HUGE disappointment. I'm not sure what the producers and directors were thinking???? I don't think they were thinking. Emily Blunt is a GREAT actress but wow, such a HUGE disappointment. NEVER AGAIN! Jack Black wasn't even funny. Why was he even considered? Why didn't they stick to the novel? I don't know what else to say but UGH! The story did not even being to resemble the awesome book. I'm sure the author is rolling over in his grave. So, this was pathetic, disgusting, stupid, disappointing... Am I forgetting anything? Oh yes, STUPID! Oh and don't even think about seeing this pathetic piece of - I can't even call it work, because its not a good piece of work. It's a sorry piece of trash. I honestly could not finish watching this and forbade my grand kids from watching it. Instead we went to the library and got the old version, that goes more by the book and is charming and interesting. I suggest you do the same. Please don't waste your time on this trash. Have a nice day.

Peytoncolumbus I don't understand why this got so bad reviews it's a cute and funny movie with jack black as a mail room guy who becomes a hero to the little people of Lilliput a island in the Bermuda Triangle Billy Connelly plays the king of Lilliput and he is a amazing actor This movie had a amazing and very talented cast It should have gotten better reviews Gulliver (jack black) gets swept in the triangle and ends up in Lilliput and makes friends with the little people after saving their king ( billy Connelly ) from a fire. Gulliver is invited to a dinner in his honer and free is friend Horatio in the process in the end Gulliver sets it right with the little people from both islands Anyways it is a funny and cute movie and it should have gotten better reviews

nonprofitgnome1 I didn't have much hope for Gulliver's Travels when I sat down to watch it. I do love Jack Black and Jason Segal and I have enjoyed other Rob Letterman directed movies (Monsters vs. Aliens, Shark Tale) but from trailers and responses I had heard from others, this one sounded like a real stinker. And this one sure lived up to the poor reviews.The movie actually started out fairly good with us learning how Gulliver (Black) would ultimately get to the Bermuda Triangle where he was a giant. Unfortunately, from the moment he arrives, the movie falls apart. Once there, Gulliver must save the city time and time again and becomes the hero as he wards off fires and attacks on the city.The movie relies on really immature humor that just doesn't work for me in this movie. We have a giant Jack Black falling down backwards with his pants drooping and the mini person going into his butt. And then a couple scenes later we have Black urinating on miniature people.Despite the poor story and ridiculous humor, Jack Black is still in it. That has to count for something right? Well it could't raise this steaming pile to anything more than a 4. This one was a real disappointment for me.

p-stepien With a career at its disappointing pinnacle Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) delivers mail in a publishing house, whilst secretly, if pretty obviously, obsessing about travel editor Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet). A nervous mix-up has Jack telling tall tales about his great adventures, thus unwittingly applying for a post as travel writer - and getting it by copy pasting a perfect article. His first employ has him chugging off to the Bermuda triangle in search of a sunny story, instead finding himself whisked away by a whirlwind straight into the kingdom of Liliput. There he finds himself trapped by General Edward (Chris O'Dowd). His only comrade fellow inmate Horatio (Jason Segel), chained due to his unwise endearments towards Princess Mary (Emily Blunt).Despite a somewhat promising cast, the intent to modernise the story has Gulliver's story transformed into a humourless self-parody with some crude or even mildly obscene jokes (surprising given its family friendly rating) forcibly making way for anything resembling narrative. The highlights of which is Black urinating on a fire or falling on his butt-cheeks with a Liliput inserting himself... you know where. As can be expected Jack Black (like him or forever leave him) returns to character as the endless man-child with some geeky back-story and limited wit. Therefore he seems entirely at home handing out some PG obscenity and molding remarks like 'Ship Happens'.The story itself has been trivialised to MTV style fanfare with none of the social commentary of Jonathan Swift (however outdated it may have seemed given its 1726 context), instead supplanted with two woozy love interests and a multitude of over-the-top jesters (also guised in the form of kings and generals). The overall story has whittled down to the bare minimum of Liliputs and conflicting kingdoms, but apart from the that the connection is non-existent. Despite some expensive looking special effects quality is a non-ingredient, instead reaching to gutter levels for humour and placing all the weight of carrying the movie on Black's antics. Given Segel, Blunt and co fail to turn up, instead handing out a bland exaggerated ensemble performance "Gulliver's Travels" is essentially a pretty cringing experience.