Gulliver’s Travel 3D

Movie: Gulliver’s Travel 3D

Cast:    Jack Black          (Lemuel Gulliver)

            Jason Segel         (Horatio)

            Amanda Peet      (Darcy Silverman)

            Emily Blunt         (Princess Mary)

            Billy Connolly     (King Theodore)

Genre: Comedy

I saw it on: January 11, 2011

Synopsis: Lemuel Gulliver (a typical Jack Black buffoon) has worked in his company’s mail room for ten years.  For five of them he has had a crush on the travel editor, Darcy. He finally decides to tell her how he feels, but things go awry and instead she thinks he wants a travel assignment and sends him to the Bermuda Triangle.  There, his boat is sucked into a “reverse vortex” and he ends up in in the kingdom of Lilliput.

He is initially a prisoner, but eventually becomes a hero.  His reputation is helped along by a never-ending series of lies about who he was in his own world. He tries to help his best friend, Horatio, make some headway in his quest to win the heart of Princess Mary.  Things go seriously awry when the former general from Lilliput decides to help the enemy. Jack’s temporary exile (I don’t want to give away any more) was a really funny addition to the plot.

My two cents: A pretty enjoyable movie.  Jack Black now seems to own the role of the lovable buffoon who is all talk and no deed.  I have so enjoyed in him in non-comedic roles such as King Kong and especially The Holiday that I wish he would break out and do some more non-buffoon roles.  That said, he plays his character really well.  There really wasn’t any time when the movie seemed to drag – I don’t think I ever checked my watch.  Bill Connelly was really funny as the King and Emily Blunt was a great Princess.  I thought all of the dialogue involving the royal family was very well written.

My only real gripe is with the 3D version.  I thought it was a total waste of my money.  I never saw anything that I felt was made any better by being in 3D.

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