Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. His newfound comrades use his enormous size to help defend the land of Lilliput from warring rivals.
15 January 1984, Derby, England, UK
4 June 1981, Denver, Colorado, USA
23 February 1983, Roehampton, London, England, UK
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29 May 1965, Dundee, Scotland, UK
18 November 1968, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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July 11, 2015
The pitch to remake this was probably four words: Gulliver's Travels Jack Black. No adjectives, no adverbs, and, most of all, no imagination. Fox took the bait, and this Christmas there's something smelling rotten under the tree.December 27, 2010
I will tell you there's a cast credit for a character described only as "Butt-crack man." Consider yourself warned.December 27, 2010
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."February 03, 2011
[A] dumb excuse for a movie.December 25, 2010
Like its protagonist, Gulliver's Travels is big, dumb, and slow-moving, a lumbering oaf of a movie that just barely makes it to feature-length via a groaningly unnecessary production number set to Edwin Starr's "War."September 09, 2011
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.April 23, 2011
This version of 'Gulliver's Travels' is strictly for the little people.September 21, 2012
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.October 14, 2013
While the film retains the satire of the original story, it goes too far with the pop culture references.April 04, 2011
It's a product for undemanding children to consume, one they'll forget pretty quickly after leaving the theater.December 28, 2010
There is laziness at every turn -- in the writing, in the acting, in the filmmaking. Don't reward these yahoos.December 24, 2010
Some films are phoned in. The staggeringly awful "Gulliver's Travels" was texted.