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DVD Review | Gulliver’s Travels – Blundering Jack Black stomps on Jonathan Swift’s classic tale

Posted on 16 May 2011 by Jason Best

Jonathan Swift‘s caustic satire on human folly has been re-imagined by Hollywood as a knockabout vehicle for Jack Black – and the result is a film so witless that that you wish the 18th-century author were still alive to use … Continue reading →

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Gulliver’s Travels – Jack Black is a bigger idiot than usual in Hollywood version of Swift’s classic tale

Posted on 26 December 2010 by Jason Best

Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift’s caustic satire on human folly, has been re-imagined by Hollywood as a knockabout vehicle for Jack Black – and the result is a film so witless that it could itself serve as a target for the … Continue reading →

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