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Gulliver's Travels - Parents Movie Review
MPAA Rating
PG
for brief rude humor, mild language and action
Genre
Comedy, Adventure
Director
Rob Letterman
Starring
Jack Black, Emily Blunt, Jason Segel, Billy Connolly, Amanda Peet
Studio
Fox
Release Date/In Theaters
12/22/2010
Movie Summary
This classic tale, Gulliver's Travels, takes a modern spin in this latest installment. Starring Jack Black, as Lemuel Gulliver, the mailroom clerk in a New York newspaper who bluffs his way into a writing assignment covering the secrets of the Bermuda Triangle. His journies take him to an undiscovered land called Lilliput. In this world Gulliver is bigger than life and begins telling tall tales that place him in historic events to enhance his ego and staus among the Lilliputians. He talks the Lilliputians into a battle against their longtime enemies. When he puts the Lilliputians in peril, he must find a way to undo the damage he has caused. Gulliver learns a life lesson that it is how big you are on the inside that counts.
Movie Review for Parents
-by Ginger
Gulliver is back, but not the way we remember him in our favorite childhood classic. In this version a travel writer takes a vacation that he will never forget. The writer ends up on Lilliput and is a giant among the little folks. An interesting little twist is that you get to Lilliput through the Bermuda triangle. He did not forget to take his cell phone this time. In this updated version of the classic, Gulliver must battle a transformer robot who begins its life as an R2D2-like shape from Star Wars. The Lilliputians are simply adorable.
The MPAA has rated this movie as a PG, but the Parental Guide to movies would rate it closer to a PG-13. This movie is geared towards small children, as it is based on a classic tale. However, it appears to be more for school-age children than preschoolers. It has many jokes that are for the adults that the children might not get. For instance, Gulliver in this version, rocks out to the band KISS. It is a simply adorable movie for everyone. This parental advisory is to take the kids, but don’t spill the popcorn on your neighbors. This movie is funny!
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