Gulliver's Travels (2010 film)

Gulliver's travels is a 2010 "adaptation" of Jonathan Swift's book starring Jack Black.


 * Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Gulliver is a dangerous giant in the land of Lilliput then he gets pushed around by a giant girl when he ends up in "the island where we dare not go" (Brobdingnag)
 * The Bermuda Triangle: Gulliver's titular travels begin after his ship wrecks in this region.
 * Bilingual Bonus: The Blefuscian motto is "Rapio E Abfugio" which means "Plunder and Run" in Latin.
 * Completely Missing the Point: In the book, Gulliver's most apparent and consistent quality is that he is honest to a fault and almost always incapable of omitting details. In this version, Gulliver will lie without flinching, just to escape his pathetic life.
 * Cut the Juice: Horatio pulls the plug on the electro-shock hands of the Mecha
 * Dare to Be Badass
 * Damsel in Distress: Parodied-before Gulliver changes things around, the princess is apparently incapable of doing anything but standing on the balcony, calling for Edward to save her.
 * Everyone Owns a Mac: See Product Placement. MacBook Pros, iPhones, and a reference to iPads (gPads).
 * Everything's Better with Princesses
 * Evil Chancellor: General Edward.
 * Hey, It's That Guy!: Many tropers here may recognize Catherine Tate.
 * Humongous Mecha/ Transforming Mecha: Edward pilots one to fight Gulliver.
 * Of course, this being Lilliput, it is only slightly bigger than Gulliver.
 * I Choose to Stay: after hearing how angry Darcy is at him, Gulliver decides to stay for a while longer in Lilliput.
 * In Name Only: While many elements are borrowed from the book, it is a very-very loose adaptation.
 * Lilliputians
 * Lost World: The story is set in the Bermuda Triangle . Darcy is initially skeptical of the claims of weird stuff going on there.
 * Neutral Female: One person helps out in the big fight. It isn't the giant girlfriend.
 * Once For Yes, Twice For No: The number of times the alarm bell is rung indicates the nature of the emergency. Five rings of the bell indicates that something is going on that has never happened before.
 * Our Giants Are Bigger:Several layers of big going on-- We have Gulliver who is a giant to the Lilliputians then the girl who is giant to Gulliver.
 * Plagiarism in Fiction: Unable to come up with good travel writing examples, he steals them from online sources. The next morning, Darcy notes that they have a variety of styles, with one piece sounding like what you'd get from X, and another piece sounding like it came from Y. Later on, she realizes that it's because they did come from X and Y.
 * Playing Cyrano: Gulliver give Horatio lines from several rock songs to use to woo the princess.
 * Product Placement: Parodied in an Orange Telephone ad where Jack Black complains about product placement in the scene where he's captured by the Lilliputians. Exaggerated when the Lilliputians actually read the instructions on how to unlock an iPhone. Played straight with Coke-Cola and Guitar Hero.
 * Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh
 * Romantic Comedy
 * Setting Update
 * Snowball Lie: Gulliver claims that he was the titular character of hundreds of movies, and is the president of his country. When asked if his people need him, he explains that Vice-President Yoda will handle things well in his absence. At one point, General Edward points out that Gulliver's claims are unbelievable, but everyone else sides with Gulliver.
 * Spoiled Brat: The giant girl that turns Gulliver into a living baby doll.
 * Stealth Pun: Gulliver's boat Knotforsailand one of the other boats is called Ship Happens.
 * The Film of the Book: If you prefer books over films, read the book instead. Out now on iPad!
 * This Loser Is You: with a healthy dollop of I Just Want to Be Special.
 * Toilet Humor / Bowdlerise - Gulliver urinating remains from the book, but he doesn't defecate.