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I was six when first I came across Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in the form of the 1939 animated movie by the Fleischer brothers. It was the first full-length cartoon by Disney’s only rivals at that time, and I remember enjoying it. The film took in just the journeys to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, and a decade passed before I discovered that Gulliver’s Travels was a great work of satire that had fallen into the hands of children, and despite being written by a distinguished clergyman it contained much that was considered unfit for the young.I’ve since seen a number of adaptations, but only one of real worth: the version Sean Kenny, who died tragically young in 1973 aged 40, co-wrote, co-directed and designed at Bernard Miles’s Mermaid theatre. It was a remarkable imaginative and intellectual achievement, taking in all four books (so kids got to hear about Laputa, Glubbdubdrib, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos, as well as Lilliput) and including a sea sequence shot in a pond on Hampstead Heath. Mike d’Abo, the Cambridge-educated pop star, played Gulliver, and I think the show might have been called Gulliver Travels. Less celebrated than the original Oliver! or his sets for Theatre Workshop and the National, Kenny’s Gulliver is a memory I cherish of a great artist of whom Ken Tynan once said: “I have a fearful premonition of the next show Mr Kenny designs. As soon as the curtain rises, the sets will advance in a phalanx on the audience and summarily expel it from the theatre.”In Rob Letterman’s truly dire 3-D version of Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver has been demoted from 18th-century ship’s surgeon to 21st-century clerk. Stuck for a decade in the mailroom of the New York Herald, he’s played by that all-purpose slob and loser, Jack Black. …

Jack Black stars in a defanged version of Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century satire. By Peter BradshawTo make a faithful version of Swift’s 18th-century satirical fantasy Gulliver’s Travels, you’d probably need to get Tim Burton to team up with Ken Loach. Or maybe get Michael Winterbottom to make something with the witty, freewheeling, questing spirit of his Tristram Shandy film A Cock and Bull Story. As it happens, this moderate new Hollywood version is directed by Rob Letterman, whose previous credits include Shark Tale and Monsters Vs Aliens and co-scripted by Shrek writer Joe Stillman. As is traditional with Gulliver adaptations, the third and fourth sections of the book are entirely missed out a that is, the sections with the Struldbrugs, the Yahoos and Houyhnhnms a and all we get is the first two tales, in which Gulliver first visits Lilliput, where everyone is very small, and then (briefly) Brobdingnag, where they are very big. Jack Black plays Lemuel Gulliver, a nerdy present-day loser in the mail-room of a fancy magazine, secretly in love with the travel editor, Darcy, played by Amanda Peet. He bluffs his way into a travel assignment in the Bermuda Triangle, where he finds himself in the land of the little people, where everyone is either a British actor (Emily Blunt, James Corden) or speaks with a British accent (Jason Segel). It isn’t too bad: there is one funny sequence in which Gulliver puts on a theatre show for the benefit of his minuscule new friends, purporting to be scenes from his own remarkable life, which are all horribly plagiarised from movies like Star Wars and Titanic. But as so often, this diluted Gulliver’s Travels is presented as if it were a children’s story, clearly influenced by similarly defanged versions of Alice In Wonderland. Actually it is a very different, fiercer beast. A grown-up Gulliver is what we need.Released on Boxing Day.Rating: 2/5ComedyAction and adventureJonathan SwiftPeter Bradshawguardian.co. …

I was six when first I came across Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in the form of the 1939 animated movie by the Fleischer brothers. It was the first full-length cartoon by Disney’s only rivals at that time, and I remember enjoying it. The film took in just the journeys to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, and a decade passed before I discovered that Gulliver’s Travels was a great work of satire that had fallen into the hands of children, and despite being written by a distinguished clergyman it contained much that was considered unfit for the young.I’ve since seen a number of adaptations, but only one of real worth: the version Sean Kenny, who died tragically young in 1973 aged 40, co-wrote, co-directed and designed at Bernard Miles’s Mermaid theatre. It was a remarkable imaginative and intellectual achievement, taking in all four books (so kids got to hear about Laputa, Glubbdubdrib, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos, as well as Lilliput) and including a sea sequence shot in a pond on Hampstead Heath. Mike d’Abo, the Cambridge-educated pop star, played Gulliver, and I think the show might have been called Gulliver Travels. Less celebrated than the original Oliver! or his sets for Theatre Workshop and the National, Kenny’s Gulliver is a memory I cherish of a great artist of whom Ken Tynan once said: “I have a fearful premonition of the next show Mr Kenny designs. As soon as the curtain rises, the sets will advance in a phalanx on the audience and summarily expel it from the theatre.”In Rob Letterman’s truly dire 3-D version of Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver has been demoted from 18th-century ship’s surgeon to 21st-century clerk. Stuck for a decade in the mailroom of the New York Herald, he’s played by that all-purpose slob and loser, Jack Black. …

Jack Black stars in a defanged version of Jonathan Swift’s 18th-century satire. By Peter BradshawTo make a faithful version of Swift’s 18th-century satirical fantasy Gulliver’s Travels, you’d probably need to get Tim Burton to team up with Ken Loach. Or maybe get Michael Winterbottom to make something with the witty, freewheeling, questing spirit of his Tristram Shandy film A Cock and Bull Story. As it happens, this moderate new Hollywood version is directed by Rob Letterman, whose previous credits include Shark Tale and Monsters Vs Aliens and co-scripted by Shrek writer Joe Stillman. As is traditional with Gulliver adaptations, the third and fourth sections of the book are entirely missed out a that is, the sections with the Struldbrugs, the Yahoos and Houyhnhnms a and all we get is the first two tales, in which Gulliver first visits Lilliput, where everyone is very small, and then (briefly) Brobdingnag, where they are very big. Jack Black plays Lemuel Gulliver, a nerdy present-day loser in the mail-room of a fancy magazine, secretly in love with the travel editor, Darcy, played by Amanda Peet. He bluffs his way into a travel assignment in the Bermuda Triangle, where he finds himself in the land of the little people, where everyone is either a British actor (Emily Blunt, James Corden) or speaks with a British accent (Jason Segel). It isn’t too bad: there is one funny sequence in which Gulliver puts on a theatre show for the benefit of his minuscule new friends, purporting to be scenes from his own remarkable life, which are all horribly plagiarised from movies like Star Wars and Titanic. But as so often, this diluted Gulliver’s Travels is presented as if it were a children’s story, clearly influenced by similarly defanged versions of Alice In Wonderland. Actually it is a very different, fiercer beast. A grown-up Gulliver is what we need.Released on Boxing Day.Rating: 2/5ComedyAction and adventureJonathan SwiftPeter Bradshawguardian.co. …

I was six when first I came across Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels in the form of the 1939 animated movie by the Fleischer brothers. It was the first full-length cartoon by Disney’s only rivals at that time, and I remember enjoying it. The film took in just the journeys to Lilliput and Brobdingnag, and a decade passed before I discovered that Gulliver’s Travels was a great work of satire that had fallen into the hands of children, and despite being written by a distinguished clergyman it contained much that was considered unfit for the young.I’ve since seen a number of adaptations, but only one of real worth: the version Sean Kenny, who died tragically young in 1973 aged 40, co-wrote, co-directed and designed at Bernard Miles’s Mermaid theatre. It was a remarkable imaginative and intellectual achievement, taking in all four books (so kids got to hear about Laputa, Glubbdubdrib, the Houyhnhnms and the Yahoos, as well as Lilliput) and including a sea sequence shot in a pond on Hampstead Heath. Mike d’Abo, the Cambridge-educated pop star, played Gulliver, and I think the show might have been called Gulliver Travels. Less celebrated than the original Oliver! or his sets for Theatre Workshop and the National, Kenny’s Gulliver is a memory I cherish of a great artist of whom Ken Tynan once said: “I have a fearful premonition of the next show Mr Kenny designs. As soon as the curtain rises, the sets will advance in a phalanx on the audience and summarily expel it from the theatre.”In Rob Letterman’s truly dire 3-D version of Gulliver’s Travels, Lemuel Gulliver has been demoted from 18th-century ship’s surgeon to 21st-century clerk. Stuck for a decade in the mailroom of the New York Herald, he’s played by that all-purpose slob and loser, Jack Black. …

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