
The trailer for the Jack Black version of Gulliver’s Travels may be one of the worst ever made. The pacing of the thing is so off; it feels like it’s ten minutes long. More than that, it obviously walks you through the entire first act, meaning you can probably show up to the movie twenty minutes late. Oh, and it’s also for a film that looks so bad it’s hard to believe it’s real.
And that’s not even addressing the FX work, which looks like something out of a British TV show. This just looks like an atrocity; the moment the 20th Century Fox logo came up I was instantly thankful for my apparently eternal ban from that studio, which means I’ll never have to sit through this crap.
At the beginning of this year I vowed to try to focus on the positive side of the movie business. After all, I write about this stuff because I love it. Maybe 2010 was the wrong year to quit being so cynical.





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It looks like one of the pre-movie trailers from Tropic Thunder.
Wow. That is terrible, although it's nice to see Donna from Doctor Who in something.
Also, you gotta love how it telegraphs its status as a absolutely SHIT comedy with the generic, super-bold sans serif letters in all the titles.
"it feels like it's ten minutes long" That's no joke. Damn, that's a bad trailer.
Did somebody actually approve this? The concept of the movie isn't even introduced until the trailer's more than half over. Before that, it's Jack Black doing his standard shtick. And the closing gag (the one that's supposed to make everyone say "I've got to see this") is a GOOOOOAAAAALLL joke that was old a decade ago.
woah there, mr faraci. British TV show? WTF does that mean? i guess you have no idea about the fx companies over there…? still, i agree that we entered the cinematic dark ages somewhere around 2-3 years ago or so. is it no surprise that memorial day BO was down? this is the worst summer ever!
Wow that looks pathetic. I like to give movies a chance, but based on that trailer I don't know if I can. Great films will always be made by somebody, but we'll always have to be subjected to this.
There goes your APES set vist, dude.
Now THAT'S a Fox/Rothman product from top to bottom. It's like they said, "You know the shittiest part of Night at the Museum, with all the little people standing in front of shitty green screens, let's make a whole movie around that concept." And what is with the trailer focusing almost completely on the shitty set-up, I don't even need to see the first act of the film because they gave it all away, not that I'm ever going to actually watch this POS. Also, why the fuck would Jack Black, by himself, drive a boat into the Bermuda Triangle? What the fuck?! I'm calling it: Biggest bomb of 2010 by far. This flick makes Land of the Lost look like 2001: A Space Odyssey. I bet Emily Blunt is pissed that she had to do this instead of Iron Man 2, I know I am, Scarlett sucked ass as Black Widow.
If this isn't Swiftian in its implications, I don't know what is.
Here I was ready to say maybe faracis overreactig… Then I watched the trailer…
Ugh.
Here's the thing… I'll probably go see this. I was sold when the opening scene was him playing with Star Wars toys, but when the movie turned into him playing with people the size of Star Wars toys, I got it.
Just clicking over to that site was a mistake. Jack Black looks like a blow up doll in the picture over there with all the life shopped right out of his face, not to mention the way he's got his mouth open.
Hollywood: "Well, which classic do we ass-rape next? We did Alice in Wonderland. Now Gulliver's Travels. And coming soon…Catcher in the Rye starring Michael Cera!"
But seriously folks, whoever works in the Fox marketing dept. must be trying to take down the corporation from the inside. That's the special kind of awful you can only do on purpose…
Luckily it's in Digital 3-D!
Tom Rothman + bad trailer + bad film + releasing it just before Xmas = increase in the suicide rate. There, I said it.
I thought you were kidding or exaggerating. Nope. Fucking unbelievably terrible. And, you know how movie trailers are cut, right? That means there's probably 5-10 other versions of this trailer cut. And they're worse.
Thank God for movies like this. This dreck only appeals to the hunchbacked mouth breathers who occupy malls during the shopping season. Well you're free to go to this for 2 plus hours and while you're at it go ahead and take your bratty snot nosed spawn with you. While you do that, I will take advantage of finishing up on my X-Mas shopping.
Loved the Airplane! reference at the end there
Amanda Peet AND Emily Blunt?!?! I automatically cannot hate this film.
Fake trailer indeed. Jack Black must have a secret habit to keep fueling his need to make garbage for extra dollars.
Any hope this is the end of Jack Black? Since he unexplicably didn`t disappear after the total and absolute dross that was King Kong. This looks just as bad.
Catherine Tate is in this!?!?! Count me out automatically.
Lord help us all…
…Jason Segal? Man…
Oh children it could be the FUCKIN TED DANSON VERSION! Get worked up over something worth getting worked up over like everyone on the internet feeling like they are movie reviewers.
I know I'm commenting on the flavor of the punch, overlooking the turd in the punch bowl…but is this going to be another version of Gulliver's Travels that only does the Lilliputian part of the story?
British TV shows? Next you'll be talking about the Brits having bad teeth and posh accents.
Keep up the generalisation. Tally ho!
On the plus side you can add this movie to your "Worst CGI In History" piece.
Is this a joke that Jack Black is playing on everyone? Cuz it's not very funny.
Em, for all the comments against Devin bringing up the FX on British TV shows, can you please enlighten us to the ones he is missing, and thereby "generalizing"? I cannot think of a fucking thing. And yes, there are indeed some great FX studios here, BUT, most of the good work they do ends up in films – American films, generally, because of the cash-flow – and definitely not TV. But, of course, I may be wrong, and feel free to correct me.
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