'gulliver's Travels' Review: Big Man, Little Laughs

William Goss, Cinematical
Sat, 12/25/2010 - 6:25pm

Filed under: Reviews, Cinematical As based on Jonathan Swift's classic satire, 'Gulliver's Travels' is appropriately construed here as the story of a big man telling tall tales. But of course the big man is played here by that chubby rascal Jack Black, and of course his Lemuel Gulliver is a lowly mail-room worker at a bustling New York City newspaper.

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