When you put Jack Black in a movie expect loads of fun and crazy humor in it.
I was able to watch the advance screening of Gulliver’s Travels tonight and I’m glad I did. This was one of those movies that will make you laugh like there’s no tomorrow. It was so much fun I totally forgot my poise and didn’t mind the crazy LMAO moments I did in the cinema!
If you read the book forget it, there were lots of materials in the book that didn’t make it in the film, the only similar thing from the book was the plot itself where a guy went to an adventure into a mysterious land of tiny people, the rest is totally fun and different.
The script was superb. I love how the different spin they did in the movie when it delved more on pop culture spoofs and humor (making fun of Star Wars, Avatar, Titanic, the PSP game Rock Band etc.) than follow what was on the original story from the book because more people were able to relate to the movie making it more hilarious.
I wouldn’t talk about any technical aspects much, I really don’t know such things, all I know is they were able to make Jack Black appear as a real giant interacting with tiny people in the film, the scaling, editing and lighting was done really good (although there were some glitches, its barely noticeable).
I suggest you take your kids and watch the movie, they will be able to relate with its humor. There’s also a bonus at the beginning of the movie , the misadventures of that little guy with an acorn in the movie Ice Age, Scrat’s Continental Crack-Up, it cracks me up super funny!
Movie info:
From his cornered mailroom office, Lemuel Gulliver (Black) walks the halls and tables of the most celebrated journalists in a leading Manhattan newspaper. Gulliver’s untamed imagination then takes him unexpectedly to an assignment from his longtime office crush Darcy, the newspaper’s travel editor. After convincing Darcy (Amanda Peet) of his impeccable travel writing, he is eventually assigned to cover the mystical Bermuda area where after violent waves, washed him ashore to an island called Lilliput where thumb-sized citizens live.
Gulliver then meets a lineage of royalties in the island from its king down to its most noble subject. After a rough start with the Lilliputians that sees Gulliver tied up and wheeled through the Town Square, then outfitted with a pulley system through which the Lilluput leaders control his every move, Gulliver begins to win over his captors. Gulliver even helps a commoner (Jason Segel) woo a princess (Emily Blunt) – employing, as Gulliver calls it, some “grade-A court-age” – and singlehandedly defeats an armada of the Lilliputians’ arch-nemeses, the Blefuscians.
Gulliver’s Travels opens January 8, 2011 (Saturday) in Philippine theaters from 20th Century Fox to be distributed by Warner Bros.
Btw, what was the first movie you saw this year?
Stay gorgeous everyone!
(Thanks to 20th Century Fox Philippines for the invite at the preview and the photos)
2 Comments
yes, sobra I have to cover my mouth with my sweater para di makita ung ngalangala ko sa sobrang katatawa
Ohh.. so you enjoyed it. I know that guy is funny 😀