.So you might as well face it, you.re never really going to get any bigger than this.. If your English class is taking a test on Jonathan Swift.s Gulliver.s Travels and you write an essay about the big robot fight at the finale . you.re going to fail. Jack Black.s big, dumb film takes little from the novel, but if you.re a three-year-old you might find it fun. Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) works in the newspaper mailroom and doesn.t have the ambition to go further. He is training his new employee (T.J. Miller) who notices that he has a crush on travel writer Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet). At the end of the day his new employee is...
- 4/25/2011
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
If you’ve been possessed of a burning desire to behold Jack Black’s belly flab in 3D, then I am delighted to announce that your moment has arrived. What’s that? You say it’s Black’s buttcrack you crave the sight of, rendered in three glorious dimensions? This, my friend, is your lucky day. Oh, but the daring of this updating of Jonathan Swift’s classic tale of rollicking adventure and biting cultural satire must be acknowledged! Black’s (Year One, Tropic Thunder) Lemuel Gulliver is a character unlike any we’ve ever seen on film before (and unlike any that Swift himself would have had the nerve to imagine): he’s a 40something layabout who happily toils, unambitiously and minimally, in the mailroom of the (fictional) New York Tribune and plays Guitar Hero more than he delivers the interoffice memos. He dreams of romancing travel editor...
- 12/28/2010
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Look, I fully realize that getting worked up over the latest Jack Black movie isn't worth the energy expended. Quite simply, the makers of this big-screen adaptation of Gulliver's Travels never intended for their movie to be analyzed in comparison to its literary source material. Instead, this movie was conceived solely with the visual effects in mind, and the filmmakers intended to cash in upon the only memory -- the sketched image of the titular character held captive by the Lilliputians and their tiny ropes -- that most of us gleaned from Jonathon Swift's novel.
Swift, of course, was an unrepentant misanthropist whose four-part 18th century novel etched a sharp-witted satire upon the hypocrisy of human nature and its justifications for a multitude of atrocities against fellow man. Now, director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens, where size truly was the name of the game) has taken the basic visual from the sketch,...
Swift, of course, was an unrepentant misanthropist whose four-part 18th century novel etched a sharp-witted satire upon the hypocrisy of human nature and its justifications for a multitude of atrocities against fellow man. Now, director Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens, where size truly was the name of the game) has taken the basic visual from the sketch,...
- 12/28/2010
- by Agent Bedhead
New Gulliver's Travels movie delivered lots of laughs with Jack Black. 20th Century Fox released their new comedy,adventure flick "Gulliver's Travel" into theaters this weekend. I just checked it out yesterday,and thought it was pretty funny. However,it got a little ridiculous at the end. Overall,though,it was pretty good. The movie stars: Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Amanda Peet, Billy Connolly, James Corden, Catherine Tate,and Chris O'Dowd. "Gulliver's Travels" revolved around character Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) who is a low confident,mail room worker that has a major crush on a girl in the office named Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet). In a failed attempt to ask her out on a date, he winds up applying for a writing/traveling job.
- 12/26/2010
- by Andre@ontheflix
- OnTheFlix
Jack Black takes centre stage in Gulliver's Travels. But is this a Boxing Day treat, or a massive misfire? Pete finds out...
When I first heard about Gulliver's Travels starring Jack Black, during one of the Orange Wednesday adverts, I assumed it to be a rather amusing joke. The juxtaposition of rent-a-slacker Jack Black with a classic satirical novel made for a hilarious spoof of the way children's films have been headed in recent years.
Imagine my surprise, then, when this turned out to be a real film, out in cinemas this Boxing Day. I tried to reserve judgement. I've seen School of Rock many times, Tenacious D songs Tribute and Wonderboy are regular visitors to my MP3 player, and I even tried to like The Pick of Destiny. As I went into the screening, I was trepidatious - would it turn out to be a Christmas cracker, or a cold,...
When I first heard about Gulliver's Travels starring Jack Black, during one of the Orange Wednesday adverts, I assumed it to be a rather amusing joke. The juxtaposition of rent-a-slacker Jack Black with a classic satirical novel made for a hilarious spoof of the way children's films have been headed in recent years.
Imagine my surprise, then, when this turned out to be a real film, out in cinemas this Boxing Day. I tried to reserve judgement. I've seen School of Rock many times, Tenacious D songs Tribute and Wonderboy are regular visitors to my MP3 player, and I even tried to like The Pick of Destiny. As I went into the screening, I was trepidatious - would it turn out to be a Christmas cracker, or a cold,...
- 12/20/2010
- Den of Geek
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