someone fire that casting director. jack black as gulliver? i guess it's a good way to get today's youth exposed to a classic, but the perversion of the story makes that a moot point.

Certainly not THAT awful, I just found it startling to see this (already short) movie hastily jump from one scene to another as if in a panic. It's as if the producers had so little faith in the finished product that they didn't want to give the audience the faintest stretch of time to dwell on any detail. You won't miss anything by skipping it.

Black tries to charm his way through this mess, but it just isn't happening. Messy, stupid and boring.

Never before have I despised free hotel HBO so much.

I like Jack Black well enough, but this is not good.

very funny 10 out of 10

Jack Black doesnt have it anymore... he was awesome in the "School of Rock". The movie is not funny it is bad at best.

It could have been far worse that it is, but the biggest problem by far is the sheer laziness of the whole affair. The jokes are almost always the ones you could see from a mile and a half away, and while Segel is easy to like, Black's constant mugging (really? Did we really need a Lilliput song and dance number?) often gets to be too much. A definite disappointment, especially when there are such good family films available now.

Surprisingly enough, this isn't offensively terrible on a Johnny English scale. Sure, it isn't funny (I laughed at the references, that's about it), it couldn't be more disrespectful to the source material if it tried and its moral lessons are fucked up but it does have a certain charm, it's creative to a certain extent and I love the entire cast (except Corden and Tate, they can go fuck themselves), there's something morbidly entertaining watching them at their career low-points.

I rather enjoyed it, technically it was all bad, but it didn't make much of pretense, so it was fine. It was a fun happy film and I liked it.

I was a Jack Black fan, but the guys got to start getting real roles again. Or at least roles that he can throw himself into wholeheartedly again.

You don't get to sing "War, what is it good for, absolutely nothing" after resolving your conflict by fighting a giant robot to the death. You *just* proved that violence solves conflicts, _no dance number for you!_

I literally had no idea what the hell was happening.

Could have been worse

This classic story seemed cool to make a movie, but was poorly executed. The special effects are pathetic, they are merely cheap camera tricks, losing all the fun. The humor is not annoying, but just it is not enough, lack some charisma and dynamism.

JB just isnt funny anymore... However if you can see past the bad adaptation of the classical novel, JB's insisting on singing what he's doing and the horrible rock-song-ending it has some enjoyable moments, especially some of the reference parts. But thats about it! Gulliver's Travels wedgied me back to 2nd grade but not in a positive manner. Props for using Prince in a modern Cyrano de Bergerac kind of way... And its only 75 min, so if you have nothing else to do...

is this comedy, at least take care of the original script!!

Poorly done... but then again when I saw JB staring as Gulliver I knew it wasn't going to be good... and I liked JB a lot first as the crazy guy in a movie... that got old fast...

To no one's real surprise this is crap, but at least it's not excruciatingly terrible, just run of the mill bad. Stupid jokes, badly paced formulaic story and annoying Jack Black antics, but more than anything it's the waste of so much potential with the material that really hurts.

To Jack: I know we had some great fun, but it's totally over, time to move on.

Jack Black recruits an army of Liliputians to build him an epic-sized mansion, pees on a fire to put it out, and brings peace to all just by rolling around on the ground singing "War (What is it Good For?)." Roughly four hundred trillion miles from what Swift originally intended, no doubt, but my kids enjoyed it, and there are a few high-spirited laughs and bright performances. Not all that bad, I guess.

That this is consistently rated tier 1 shows collective lack of perspective. When Twilight films are released yearly pushing the worst female role model of all time onto millions of young girls, I find it hard to judge this effort as harshly. Yeah, it's oddly cast, silly to the point of ridiculous and apparently written by a 5-year-old. A bunch of OK set pieces abhorrently strung together and a fairly acceptable moral lesson. Apart from the fact that it's a poor film at best, what's the problem?

Jack Black is getting old.

"Marketed as a hip, modern adaptation of a classic, the movie feels more like a Christmastime TV special projected in 3D." - Paul Schrodt

The pseudo-adult humor, borrowed from Stillman's collaboration on the screenplays of the first two films from the Shrek franchise, seems now repetitive and too obvious. And Letterman, investing in dozens of film and pop culture references (from Star Wars to Lollapalooza), and poor special effects, achieves little.

Jack Black has definitely outstayed his welcome on our cinema screens now. Any sap of respect I had for him, and there wasn't a lot to begin with, has now disappeared. I wish he himself would do the same.

An usual Joe Black comedy I hate the most. Even my kid did not like it that much. Some decent acting but what the heck, the script was awful.

I really wish they would donate this money helping children in Africa instead of making this kind of movies.

You know, this had some potential. The set-up was there, the sweetness, the pathos for the film's main characters, the talent. But somewhere between an engaging first 15 minutes and a rock-and-roll, song-and-dance sequence in the final five minutes, it gets horribly lazy. That's too bad, because with a little more creativity from the writers and director, Gulliver's Travels could have been one of those rather rare films that cracks the kids up and rewards the parents who pay for the admission.

didnt like the ending and everything jack black does somehow turns into a musical?!?!

Nice opening credits. It's a steep downhill from there.

I simply don't understand how the general public can't simply love this movie. It was extremely funny, featured lots of great actors in roles that suited them well, the SFX were tremendous, the overall atmosphere was great and it never got too cheesy. Extremely well done.

Okay, but how many times does Jack Black play this same character. It's getting kinda old.