Deepak Warrier reviews Gulliver's Travels. Post YOUR reviews here! If 18th century writer Jonathan Swift had watched the silver screen adaptation of his satire Gulliver's Travels, it would not have come as a surprise if he walked out, shamelessly torn, and pathetically teary.Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black, pitiful) has lots of unexpressed love for travel editor Darcy Silverman (Amanda Peet) of a New York daily. Desperate to woo her, mailroom employee Gulliver embarks on a travel writing assignment and very promptly sets out to the Bermuda Triangle.
His vessel topples in a storm, gets wrecked and Gulliver goes into a total shut down. I wish the film ended right there. But of course, the proceedings have just started.
Much like the original, Gulliver finds himself in a world of six-inch Lilliputians. But the logical similarity with the original ends there.
Gulliver makes friends in Horatio (Jason Segel), who later becomes the only solace in the movie.
Split between the love of King Theodore (Billy Connolly) and the enmity of General Edward (Chris O'Dowd), Gulliver soon finds himself settling down as a hero in the tiny world. He becomes a champion and people look up to him as the saviour of the territory. The self-exaggerated heroics of Gulliver, which later take him to a
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There are traces of comedy, love, adventure, fantasy and drama in the film. 
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