Gullivers Travels

Jack Black starred in this adaption of the classic Swift tale. For those of who read Gulliver's Travels in school the movie is recognizable. In the movie Jack Black plays Gulliver a ten year worker in the mail room of a travel magazine.

He is sweet and nice and not very successful. He has a crush on an editor at the magazine played by Amanda Peet. Peet is one of the most likable of actresses. Be it on a late night show or in a movie she has something that I find appealing. She is attractive but of course all actresses are attractive, she has some kind of zest for life that makes her attractive.

Gulliver in an attempt to impress her takes an assignment to do some travel writing about a remote island. After a storm crashes his boat he awakes to find himself restrained. Tied up by ropes and hundreds of little people--Lilliputians he breaks free but eventually through much effort is confined again.

This is where the movie departs significantly from the book. He helps a young man, played by Jason Segal, woo the princess. The princess has a beau who she does not love, and he is suspicious of Gulliver. Eventually Gulliver becomes the leader of the army and navy.

Battles ensue, his editor follows him and in the end many good things happen.

This is a cute movie. Nothing great, not worth writing home about, but a movie you can watch with the kids and at least have them have some exposure to a classic book.

A cute movie.

Amanda Peet on David Letterman

Amanda Peet is on Dave tonight. She is promoting her new show soon to be airing on NBC. I really have not seen her in anything I can recall except Saving Silverman which had some funny moments.

Still I have seen her on quite a few talk shows and she is very entertaining. I have seen her a couple of times on Dave and it is always clear when he has a guest he enjoys and has a rapport with.

I can sometimes make a judgement about if i think someone is likable, for example I have never seen an appearance by Cameron Diaz in these environments that made me find her someone to be impressed by, Peet is just the opposite.That alone is reason enough to check out her new show.