Black's take on Gulliver's Travels may be released in the closing days of 2010 - but there will be few less impressive films in the year to come.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 25, 2021

A Jack Black film is a goodhearted comedy that allows Black to put on full display the two cinematic notes he has mastered, broad comedy and the puppy dog look.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 9, 2020

Throwaway hangover fodder, big on goofiness and small on invention.

| Aug 21, 2018

The pitch to remake this was probably four words: Gulliver's Travels Jack Black. No adjectives, no adverbs, and, most of all, no imagination. Fox took the bait, and this Christmas there's something smelling rotten under the tree.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 11, 2015

While the film retains the satire of the original story, it goes too far with the pop culture references.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2013

The over the top performances of the well-spoken Lilliputians, and even that of Jack Black, go a long way towards helping make the movie better, but sadly, they just couldn't save the material from itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 21, 2012

| Original Score: D | Feb 18, 2012

Despite its broad strokes of goofball, sometimes gross-out comedy tailored to Black's gonzo style, the movie does echo some of the classic novel's farcical observances.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 9, 2011

This version of 'Gulliver's Travels' is strictly for the little people.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Apr 23, 2011

It's a product for undemanding children to consume, one they'll forget pretty quickly after leaving the theater.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

There aren't many reasons to see Gulliver's Travels. In trying to fill several different identities, it fails at all of them.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 25, 2011

Alternately yawningly obvious and under-sketched, the movie never settles on a consistent tone, or takes full comedic advantage of its big-man-in-a-small-land opportunity for steady physical comedy.

Full Review | Feb 10, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 6, 2011

[A] dumb excuse for a movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 3, 2011

A star-studded re-imagining of a classic piece of literature that shoots for the moon, aims for laughs and misses both targets by a country mile.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2011

Jack Black used to be so cool.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 9, 2011

Jack Black's abridged version of Jonathan Swift's famed epic fairs slightly better than other recent family adaptations. It's silly and occasionally funny -- not bad for a movie starring a guy who saves an entire city with his urine.

| Original Score: C | Jan 7, 2011

Lilliputian in wit and Brobdingnagian in wretchedness...

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jan 3, 2011

Black himself is the whole show here.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 2, 2011

As disinterested in itself as Gulliver's Travels seems to be, it's a wonder it ever came into existence at all.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 1, 2011