This is what the holidays need: a good, Swift kick in the funny bone.
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USA TodayClaudia Puig
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Yet another foray into unnecessary 3-D, is a rehashed mishmash of Jonathan Swift's 18th-century classic. Mostly, it's a vehicle for Jack Black's zany humor.
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EmpireAnna Smith
EmpireAnna Smith
A low-grade comedy that'll have Jonathan Swift turning in his grave.
Those of us who dig the comedian's hyperactive persona may feel that the meter is now officially running on his amiable rocker-doofus act; everyone else will simply marvel that a Christmas season could produce such an unfunny, unentertaining lump of coal.
A movie of such stupendous uninspiration that, watching it, I didn't know whether to be affronted or hornswoggled. Movies this monumentally dreadful, after all, don't come along every day.
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Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The 3-D is cheesy (2.2-D at best) the gags are gross (Gulliver urinates on an 18th-century palace to extinguish a fire) and the production abandons all hope of coherence when the hero fights a climactic battle with a giant robot out of "Transformers."