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Gulliver's Travels Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 75

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  You may be imagining this is an animated film, and that Jack Black is voicing Lemuel Gulliver. Not at all. This is live action, and despite the 3-D, it's sorta old-fashioned, not that that's a bad thing.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesBetsy Sharkey

  Oone of those movies that falls between complete disaster and loads of fun. Mild amusement is probably about right.

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• 50

  out of 100

  The New York TimesA.O. Scott

  For myself, I was but seldom inspired to peals of true laughter, though I did relish that part when Mr. Black, confronting a fire raging in the Palace of Lilliput, douses the blaze through heroic use of such means as Nature has provided him.

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• 50

  out of 100

  USA TodayClaudia Puig

  Yet another foray into unnecessary 3-D, is a rehashed mishmash of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century classic. Mostly, it's a vehicle for Jack Black's zany humor.

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• 42

  out of 100

  Entertainment Weekly

  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.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt

  While not the worst in recent 3D films, Gulliver's Travels is more gimmicky than a crackling good yarn.

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• 38

  out of 100

  ReelViewsJames Berardinelli

  The only arena in which Gulliver's Travels plays an adequate game is in visual effects.

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• 30

  out of 100

  Variety

  The story grows more desperate as it goes on.

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• 0

  out of 100

  Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern

  The 3-D is cheesy (2.2-D at best) the gags are gross (Gulliver urinates on an 18th-century palace to extinguish a fire) and the production abandons all hope of coherence when the hero fights a climactic battle with a giant robot out of "Transformers."

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