Gulliver's Travels (2010)

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda but ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

Director:

Rob Letterman

Writers:

Joe Stillman (screenplay), Nicholas Stoller (screenplay)

Stars:

Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel

3 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jack Black	...	Lemuel Gulliver
Jason Segel	...	Horatio
Emily Blunt	...	Princess Mary
Amanda Peet	...	Darcy Silverman
Billy Connolly	...	King Theodore
Chris O'Dowd	...	General Edward
T.J. Miller	...	Dan
James Corden	...	Jinks
Catherine Tate	...	Queen Isabelle
Emmanuel Quatra	...	King Leopold
Olly Alexander	...	Prince August
Richard Laing	...	Nigel Travel Writer
David Sterne	...	Foreman
Stewart Scudamore	...	Blefuscian Captain
Jonathan Aris	...	Lilliputian Scientist

Storyline

Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) has been working in the mail room of a New York daily newspaper for the past ten years. Afraid to put himself out there, he considers himself a loser, as do all of his peers. One day, after having finally had enough, he decides to declare his love to the beautiful Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet), the newspaper's travel editor and one of Gulliver's only friends, only to chicken out at the last minute and instead tell her that he'd like to try his hand at writing a column. Darcy accepts and sends him on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle. There, Gulliver becomes shipwrecked and ends up on the island of Liliput, where he is twelve times taller than the tallest man. For the first time, Gulliver has people looking up to him.

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Plot Keywords:

reference to gulliver's travels | reference to gulliver | gulliver | close up of eye | close up of eyes | 

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Taglines:

A magical land. A comedy of epic proportions.

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for brief rude humor, mild language and action

Did You Know?

Trivia

The film gives no screen credit to Jonathan Swift, who wrote the 1726 novel on which it was loosely based.

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Goofs

When Gulliver is inviting Dan from the mail room out for a drink early in film, Gulliver has his right thumb up, pointing to himself, but in the reverse shot of Dan, he has his left thumb up.

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Quotes

King Theodore: Woah, inside castle voice please.

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Crazy Credits

The end credits are presented as part of newspaper clips from Gulliver's column. Surrounding the credits is actual text from the original novel by Jonathan Swift, and mentions some adventures from the book that are not featured in the movie, such as the encounters with the subhuman "yahoos".

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Alternate Versions

Also released in a 3D version.

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Connections

Version of The New Gulliver (1935)

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Soundtracks

Listen to Mama
Written by Ben Ofoedu, Claudine Cramer, Richard Raffles, Leigh Guest, Nora Dean, Rodney Williams
Performed by Walkerman
Courtesy of Major Records Medien GmbH, Germany

User Reviews

Gosh, aren't we all being a little too serious in these reviews

Gulliver's Travels is fun, a fantasy, not taking itself seriously light comedy. You won't learn anything, you won't cry, you won't witness historic cinema in the making. You will spend an hour and a half watching an enjoyable family film that doesn't pretend to be anything more than a fun adaptation of an age old tale by Jonathan Swift.

I marked the film 7 because I enjoyed watching it, isn't that enough? Must everything be critiqued so much that we lose enchanting family films that just cheer us up momentarily.

Sometimes; Now this might upset the media studies students who seem to be taking over IMDb, sometimes I don't want to have to concentrate on plots and sub plots, sometimes I just want watch a film and escape for a bit, is that OK with you, must everything be Cannes fodder? If you want to have fun and watch a dumb romantic comedy watch Gulliver's Travels, if you're an over serious sneering sceptic... don't. It's that simple.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

25 December 2010 (USA)

Also Known As:

Gulliver's Travels

Filming Locations:

Ashridge Park, Little Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, England, UK

Box Office

Budget:

$112,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$6,307,691, 26 December 2010

Gross USA:

$42,779,261

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$237,382,724

Company Credits

Production Co:

Twentieth Century Fox, Dune Entertainment, Davis Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby (Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound) DTS SDDS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1