I have a certain number of Blu Rays now that I'm not proud of. Films that I actively don't like but keep so the collection is bigger and more impressive than it otherwise would be. One such film is 2010's "Gulliver's Travels" - a thoroughly unlikable vehicle for Jack Black that seemingly has no target audience.
Whilst heading to a remote location for a travel report, Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is caught in a storm. He washes up on the beach of the island of lilliput and discovers that population are tiny, relative to him. He's imprisoned, as they are fearful of his size and in the prison he meets Horatio (Jason Segal). . . . even as I write this, I'm too bored to get through it.
It's just not funny - that ultimately is the problem with "Gulliver's Travels". Black is gurning and dancing and singing about and there's a little bit of amusement in the scenes where he recreates "Guitar Hero" or tells the people his life story via a bunch of film moments. But those scenes are few and far between and are mixed in with some of the more tedious and nonsensical elements that I've experience in a while. The scene at the end when he starts to sing "War" by Norman Whitfield and the rest of the cast join in is one of the worst things I've ever seen, I physically cringed when it happened.
Nobody looks like they're having any fun with this, particularly Emily Blunt, whose contractual obligation to the film meant that she couldn't play Natasha Romanov in "Iron Man 2". The only supporting person to escape with any credit is probably Chris O'Dowd - who at least gets to play an actual character which almost nobody else does.
I suppose the target audience is supposed to be kids, really young kids probably, but I can't imagine they'd be very into it, and it's certainly a bad time for everyone else.
Whilst heading to a remote location for a travel report, Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) is caught in a storm. He washes up on the beach of the island of lilliput and discovers that population are tiny, relative to him. He's imprisoned, as they are fearful of his size and in the prison he meets Horatio (Jason Segal). . . . even as I write this, I'm too bored to get through it.
It's just not funny - that ultimately is the problem with "Gulliver's Travels". Black is gurning and dancing and singing about and there's a little bit of amusement in the scenes where he recreates "Guitar Hero" or tells the people his life story via a bunch of film moments. But those scenes are few and far between and are mixed in with some of the more tedious and nonsensical elements that I've experience in a while. The scene at the end when he starts to sing "War" by Norman Whitfield and the rest of the cast join in is one of the worst things I've ever seen, I physically cringed when it happened.
Nobody looks like they're having any fun with this, particularly Emily Blunt, whose contractual obligation to the film meant that she couldn't play Natasha Romanov in "Iron Man 2". The only supporting person to escape with any credit is probably Chris O'Dowd - who at least gets to play an actual character which almost nobody else does.
I suppose the target audience is supposed to be kids, really young kids probably, but I can't imagine they'd be very into it, and it's certainly a bad time for everyone else.
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