Black is Big in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ Trailer
The trailer for Jack Black’s holiday adventure film Gulliver’s Travels was released today. It sets up the story quite well, for those not familiar with the source material, and definitely features Black in full-on “Jables” mode.
In a contemporary re-imagining of the classic tale, Jack Black stars as Gulliver, a big-talking mailroom clerk who, after he’s mistakenly assigned a travel piece on the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of very tiny people. At first enslaved by the diminutive and industrious Liliputians, and later declared their hero, Gulliver comes to learn that it’s how big you are on the inside that counts.
That said, Jason Segel is playing second fiddle to a Frat Pack star and once again is barely seen in the trailer (see also: Despicable Me). I sure hope we’ll see more of the characters in Lilliput in future clips/trailers.
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