Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) tells a few untruths to the girl of his dreams Darcy (Amanda Peet) to secure a travel-writing job. On his first trip, Gulliver gets caught in a storm in the Bermuda Triangle and ends up in Lilliput – a mysterious land where the people are no more than 6 inches tall. Gulliver, through an act of heroism, soon becomes the hero of the land, but how long will it be before his lies about being President the Awesome of the island of Manhattan will come back to bite him? Jack Black has made a career of playing the lovable loser – memorable moments were High Fidelity and School of Rock – but Gulliver’s Travels is not one of his finest moments. While Black labours hard to make the mediocre script work for him, this is not enough to make up for the film’s rather odd choices. … There’s more →