| Original Score: D | Feb 18, 2012

[A] dumb excuse for a movie.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 3, 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

Someplace, somewhere, Jonathan Swift is hanging his head in shame.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 31, 2010

While nobody would seriously expect Hollywood to honour Jonathan Swift's satirical fantasy, we might at least have hoped for a few decent gags.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 31, 2010

There is laziness at every turn -- in the writing, in the acting, in the filmmaking. Don't reward these yahoos.

| Original Score: D+ | Dec 28, 2010

A quick, fun, family-friendly fantasy adventure spiced by some nifty visual effects.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 27, 2010

Truly dire...

| Dec 27, 2010

Unfunny, unconvincing, too much jiggling, not enough story.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 27, 2010

I will tell you there's a cast credit for a character described only as "Butt-crack man." Consider yourself warned.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2010

The film stumbles along a predictable path, and there is an audible wince when Gulliver says, "These little people have grown large in my heart."

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 27, 2010

Like its protagonist, Gulliver's Travels is big, dumb, and slow-moving, a lumbering oaf of a movie that just barely makes it to feature-length via a groaningly unnecessary production number set to Edwin Starr's "War."

| Original Score: D- | Dec 25, 2010

The flaccid torpor of the script shows utter contempt for its audience in every line.

| Original Score: D | Dec 24, 2010

"Gulliver's Travels" is one of those movies that falls between complete disaster and loads of fun. Mild amusement is probably about right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 24, 2010

It all feels so lazy and familiar that adults may find themselves hoping Black will start to challenge himself again -- and the more swiftly the better.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 24, 2010

What were they thinking? What were they smoking? What were they singing on the way to the bank?

| Dec 24, 2010

For a novel written nearly 300 years ago by a dour Irish cleric with a mad-on about the material world and a satiric mindset dark enough to flirt with misanthropy, it's amazing how well Gulliver's Travels travels.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 24, 2010

Gulliver's Travels strips the source material down to its recognizable parts and then builds something completely new out of them. Unfortunately, the result is entirely Lilliputian in ambition, even for a children's movie.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 24, 2010

Somewhere by the middle, the souffle collapses, and the movie becomes sleep-inducing. Gulliver doesn't have much to do in Lilliput, and we notice that before he does.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 24, 2010

Black was already the world's biggest little kid, and he might be the only actor who could have made this movie such nimble fun. No matter how thin the concept, Black always manages to make it his own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 24, 2010