It’s been rated 4.8/10 on Imdb and 3.9/10 on Rotten Tomato’s after its theatrical release, so we understand if you’re only half-excited about Jack Black’s rendition of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS coming to DVD/Blu Ray today.
GULLIVER’S TRAVELS is the modernized tale of Jonathan Swift’s literary classic that tells the story of Lemuel Gulliver (Black), a slacker mailroom worker who tries to move up in his company by doing a story on the Bermuda Triangle. Gulliver ends up in a storm leaving him shipwrecked on the shore of Lilliput, and island where he’s about a million times larger than all of its citizens. Staying loosely true to the original plot, Gulliver starts out caged, helps the Lilliputians battle the neighboring island of Blefuscu, puts out a fire by peeing on it, and is declared a hero on the island, among other Gullivery events.
Highlights include Emily Blunt as Princess Mary, Jason Segal as Horatio, and stand-up visuals (minus the post-3D effect added in theatres). Everything else is “cheeky mediocrity”, but that just may be what a long weekend with the whole family needs. 2/5 stars.
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