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1. 
   Ollie214678
   

   Jan 04, 2011

   Some people need to enjoy this film for what it really is!

   OK this title may not be true to the original movie and may contain
   some inappropriate scenes and phrases for a PG. But films are for
   entertainment and this entertained! It may have escaped peoples notices
   but this is classed as a remake so we shouldn't expect it to be exactly
   the same as the first movie, after all, there wouldn't be much point It
   contains a lot of good humour, great lines, good effects and if I'm
   entirely honest the cast were fantastic! 'Lotsofjoy's review is based
   purely on their ideas about how a film should be rated, I'll be blunt;
   lighten up! The urinating was amusing, the reference to breats was
   light humour. This film may not have been up to some peoples
   expectations but under-rating it because it didn't respect your perfect
   parent plan or didn't stay true to your favourite oldies is not fair,
   this remake is better than the original and the revolting HUMOUR was
   humorous! Stop picking things apart and enjoy the it. If this wasn't
   your kind of film, that doesn't mean it's awful for everybody else!

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2. 
   Jonathon Dabell (barnaby.rudge@hotmail.co.uk) from Wakefield, England
   

   Jan 04, 2011

   A minor crime against cinema; a major crime against literature!

   *** This review may contain spoilers ***

   First things first: if you are watching Jack Black's version of
   Gulliver's Travels because you're a fan of the original book, you might
   want to skip it altogether. Gone is the literate and satirical edge
   that has kept the story in print for over two centuries. Instead we
   have a loud, brash, very "Hollywood" retelling in which the nearest we
   get to satire is when Black topples backwards and squishes a
   Lilliputian in his butt-crack. There are some very mildly amusing
   moments in this film, but overall it is a regrettable example of the
   direction major American studio releases seem to be heading. That is to
   say: over-marketed, self-satisfied, bland nonsense, made with business
   in mind and not the art of film-making itself.

   Mailroom slacker Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) works in a huge Manhattan
   editorial office. He spends most of his time quoting movies, playing
   Guitar Hero, and wishing that gorgeous hotshot travel editor Darcy
   Siverman (Amanda Peet) will notice him. One day, Gulliver realises that
   he has spent the best part of ten years doing nothing with his life… so
   to impress Darcy he takes on a minor assignment investigating strange
   goings-on in the Bermuda Triangle. During the trip, Gulliver's boat is
   caught up in a strange oceanic vortex and flung into a strange
   other-worldly kingdom known as Lilliput. Here the inhabitants are no
   bigger than insects and Gulliver appears as a fearsome giant. Soon he
   befriends the King (Billy Connolly), the Queen (Catherine Tate), the
   Princess (Emily Blunt), and an honourable prisoner (Jason Segel). But a
   slimy and untrustworthy military man, General Edward (Chris O'Dowd),
   refuses to buy Gulliver's tall stories and plots to rid the land of
   this new giant once and for all….

   The fact that Jack Black is merely playing Dewey Finn from School Of
   Rock, and transposing the character to another film, is just the
   beginning of this film's problems. The overall acting talent wasted
   here is enough to make a grown man cry. Connolly fails to raise a
   single smile as the Lilliputian king, while Blunt (whose career so far
   has been refreshingly sure-footed) is reduced to the level of a ditsy
   bimbo. This will do her career no favours whatsoever. Segel, Peet and
   especially O'Dowd are all equally guilty of frittering away their
   talents in moronic roles. In terms of finding positive things to say
   about the film, at least the special effects are pretty good, and there
   are infrequent amusing moments (mainly references to other films, or
   sprinklings of toilet humour). Overall, though, that's about as
   positive as I can be. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the concept
   of modernising Jonathan Swift's novel, but not if it's to be reduced to
   this level of cheap vulgarity and simple-minded storytelling.

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