Gulliver's Travels
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: December 25, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
33
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
12
Negative:
14
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
38
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaDec 25, 2010
Murderously unfunny. Read full review
38
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 25, 2010
The really annoying thing about Jack Black's Gulliver's Travels is not so much that it's a bad movie -- it is bad, but only run-of-the-mill bad, not epic-misfire bad -- but that the movie sullies a piece of literature that has endured for nearly 300 years for the sake of a cheap kiddie flick that'll be forgotten in a month. Read full review
38
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreDec 25, 2010
The villains are weak and the narrative has little drive to it. Read full review
38
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonDec 24, 2010
Loosely - very loosely - based on the classic Jonathan Swift story, "Gulliver's Travels" begins promisingly but quickly loses its way. Read full review
38
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliDec 23, 2010
The only arena in which Gulliver's Travels plays an adequate game is in visual effects. Read full review
30
VarietyPeter DebrugeDec 22, 2010
The story grows more desperate as it goes on. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversJan 7, 2011
At one point, Black puts out a fire by pissing on it. It's my job as a critic to piss on this dumb excuse for a movie. Consider it done. Read full review
25
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanDec 25, 2010
Unnecessary and unfunny re-imagining of the classic satire by Jonathan Swift. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisDec 24, 2010
A migraine inducement that you'd think Jack Black had gotten out of his system years ago. Yet he still finds an excuse to wear a blazer and shorts and fling his bodily orb like Angus Young on Guitar Hero night at the neighborhood bar. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid FearDec 22, 2010
Those of us who dig the comedian's hyperactive persona may feel that the meter is now officially running on his amiable rocker-doofus act; everyone else will simply marvel that a Christmas season could produce such an unfunny, unentertaining lump of coal. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinDec 25, 2010
With deadening predictability, the filmmakers have reduced a definitive satire about the flaws and foibles of human nature into family-friendly sub-Disney pabulum about an affable slacker who finally musters up the courage to ask a pretty girl at work for a date. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 30, 2010
Listless, dull, and totally lacking in spectacle. Read full review
0
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 23, 2010
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." Read full review
0
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDec 21, 2010
A movie of such stupendous uninspiration that, watching it, I didn't know whether to be affronted or hornswoggled. Movies this monumentally dreadful, after all, don't come along every day. Read full review
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