''Gulliver's Travels'' is a 2010 American

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directed by

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in his live-action

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, produced by John Davis and Gregory Goodman, written by

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and

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with music by

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. It is very loosely based on Part One of the 1726 novel of the same name by

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, though the film takes place in the modern day. It stars

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in the title role,

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, T.J Miller,

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and

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, and is exclusively distributed by

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. The film was theatrically released on December 25, 2010, in the United States. Even though the film received generally negative reviews, it earned $237.4 million on a $112 million budget. ''Gulliver's Travels'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 19, 2011, by

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Plot

Deeply depressed at his

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in the mail room of a

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newspaper,

Lemuel Gulliver Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of ''Gulliver's Travels'', a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726. In ''Gulliver's Travels'' According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. ...

decides to impress journalist Darcy Silverman. He convinces her he could write a report about his (false) extensive world "travels" saying his dream is to become a writer. After suffering

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and thinking that Darcy will not want to hang out with a "guy from the mailroom", Gulliver plagiarises a report from other publications on the

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. The next day, Darcy, impressed by his writing, presents Gulliver with a new task – to travel to the

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and write an article about the legends of ships mysteriously disappearing there. Upon arriving in

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, Gulliver rents a ship and travels into the triangle. After falling asleep at the helm of his ship, Gulliver is caught in a freak storm and the ship is overwhelmed by a

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. Gulliver washes up unconscious on the shore of Lilliput, where he is immediately confirmed as a "beast" by the town's tiny people. After the citizens claim him to be dangerous because of his size, Gulliver is captured and imprisoned in a cave. There, he meets another prisoner named Horatio who was jailed by General Edward because he loves Princess Mary of Lilliput, despite Edward also pursuing her. After the island across from Lilliput, Blefuscia, orders some commandos to kidnap Princess Mary, Gulliver manages to break free of the plough-machine he is forced to work and then rescues the princess from being kidnapped. Gulliver also saves her father, King Theodore, from a

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by urinating on it. Gulliver is declared a

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by Lilliput's citizens and lies that he is the President of Manhattan, says

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is his vice-president and a living legend in his homeland. Edward, however, becomes enraged due to the luxurious accommodations that have been built for Gulliver, and for being presented as an honorary

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of the Lilliputian Army complete with uniform. The townspeople find Gulliver's boat and his things, when Gulliver receives angry

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s from Darcy, who has to take his place and travel to Bermuda now, and she has found out about his plagiarism and now hates him. The next day, chaos ensues as the Blefuscian Navy lays siege to the city when Edward shuts down its defense system as an act of revenge for Gulliver's treatment. Gulliver defeats the armada, invulnerable to the cannonballs being fired at him (although he receives numerous welts on his stomach). Embarrassed once more, and with Mary no longer wanting to have anything to do with him, Edward defects to the Blefuscians and brings with him blueprints of a robot he had made from a page he'd seen from Gulliver's ''

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'' game manual. The Blefuscians secretly build the robot, with Edward as the

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. The Blefuscians invade Lilliput and the robot-wielding Edward makes Gulliver admit to the people that he is "just the guy from the mail-room" and nothing more. Edward banishes Gulliver to the shores of "the island where we dare not go" (

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). There, he is snatched up by a "little" girl (

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) who towers over him. She captures him easily by trapping him inside a glass cup. When Gulliver wakes up, he finds himself in a pink dress in a bedroom of a doll house which begins to shake when the "little girl" pulls apart the wall of the bedroom who begins to stare emotionlessly and ominously at a tiny defenseless Gulliver. He then screams fearfully at the sight of the quiet giant "little" girl, she shoves a milk bottle in his mouth and forcefully feeds him excess milk. The girl treats him as a doll, playing with him roughly. Horatio, who has gone to find Gulliver after being spurned by Mary, reveals to Gulliver that Darcy was imprisoned by the Blefuscians after she was lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the same manner as Gulliver. Gulliver narrowly escapes with him, using a

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that he took from the skeleton of a dead

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pilot sitting in the

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. Once again accepting a duel from Edward, this time not only for Lilliput's freedom but for its fate as well – as Edward threatens to destroy it should Gulliver fail – Gulliver ultimately defeats him with the assistance of Horatio, who disables the machine's electrocuting weapon. Horatio is hailed a hero and gets King Theodore's permission to court the princess. Edward, reaching the point of insanity, threatens to kill the princess, but the princess, finally having enough of Edward, punches the traitor in the face in frustration. When King Theodore decides to sentence all Blefuscians to the gallows or to prepare for war, Gulliver then helps to make peace between the rival island-nations by reciting

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's "

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" and he, along with Darcy, return to

on their repaired ship. The film ends with Gulliver, now a legitimate travel writer, taking Darcy to lunch while holding hands, after returning from another travel assignment.

Cast

as Lemuel Gulliver, a mail-room worker who becomes a journalist after plagiarizing a report and winds up in Lilliput after encountering a storm *

as Horatio, a man from Lilliput who Gulliver befriends *

as Princess Mary, the princess of Lilliput and King Theodore's daughter *

as Darcy Silverman, a journalist and Gulliver's girlfriend *

as King Theodore, the king of Lilliput and Mary's father *

Chris O’Dowd Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Trenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy '' The IT Crowd'', which ran for four series between 2006 and 2010. He has ...

as General Edward Edwardian, the commander of the Lilliput Army who begins despising Gulliver *

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as Dan Quint *

as Jinks *

as Queen Isabelle, the queen of Lilliput *

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as Prince August

Production

In a January 2010 interview on ''

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'', Segel explained his character spends most of the film in Black's shirt pocket. The film features 7.1 surround audio in select theaters. The name of Liliput's rival country, Blefuscu, was also changed to Blefuscia. Filming of the Lilliput royal palace was at

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. Miniature 1:12 scale dolls' house furniture and accessories from Derbyshire firm The Dolls House Emporium were used to bring the movie alive with less need for special effects. Jonathan Swift, the original author of the novel that the film was loosely based on, is not mentioned during the credits, despite the titles mentioning that the film is not an original piece.

Soundtrack

A soundtrack album of Henry Jackman's score was released by

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. Rock music and film themes that appear in the film include: * "

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" – Performed by

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* "Listen To Mama" – Performed by Walkerman * "Rose's Theme" – Written by

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* "

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" – Written by

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* "

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" – Performed by

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* "

" – Performed by Taylor Graves * "

" – Written by

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(as Norman J. Whitfield) and

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* "(I Keep On) Rising Up" – Written and Performed by

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Release

Marketing

The official trailer for the film was released on June 3, 2010; and attached to ''

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'' a day after. The second trailer was released on November 5, 2010, and it is also attached with ''

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''. As a prize on the television show '' Survivor: Nicaragua'', four of its contestants were able to watch the film before its release. Originally scheduled for release on June 4, 2010, it was released on December 25, 2010. 20th Century Fox later announced on March 23, 2010, that the film would be converted to 3D. On December 13, 20th Century Fox announced that it would again move the release date, this time to December 25, 2010. The film was accompanied by an ''

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'' short titled ''Scrat's Continental Crack-up''.

Home media

''Gulliver's Travels'' was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on April 19, 2011, by

and it was released on

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on May 21, 2021.

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregation website

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, the film has an approval rating of 20% based on 120 reviews, with an average rating of 4.10/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though Jack Black is back doing what he does best, ''Gulliver's Travels'' largely fails to do any justice to its source material, relying instead on juvenile humor and special effects." On

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, the film has a score of 33 out of 100 based on reviews from 32 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by

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gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale. ''

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'' commented that "any sense of fun slowly drains away as the movie insists on highlighting effects over character and story" while '' Time Out'' gave it 2 out of 5 stars, commenting that the film "veers between the very mildly chucklesome and plain not funny." ''

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'' called it "a movie of such stupendous uninspiration" that it was "monumentally dreadful" and the ''

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'' called it "cute" but "sleep-inducing." ''

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'' rated the film 1.5 out of 4 stars and ''

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'' rated 2 out of 5 stars calling it "a low-grade comedy that'll have Jonathan Swift turning in his grave." Other critics were less harsh, although still not praising of the film.

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commented that knowing whom the film is for, and whom it is not for, might help viewers appreciate it. He awarded the film three out of four stars.

Box office

''Gulliver's Travels'' opened to $6.3 million for its opening weekend, landing at #8 in the US; this ranks it as the 84th worst opening for a film with a wide release tracked by

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. The film grossed $42.8 million in the US and Canada and $194.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $237.4 million against a production budget of $112 million.

Awards

Black received a Kids Choice Award nomination for favorite movie actor and lost to

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's performance in ''

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''. Black was also nominated for a

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for Worst Actor, only to lose to

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's performances in '' Killers'' and ''

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''. Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor: 2010

References

External links

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Some of the real dolls' house items used in the film
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