A kids’ version of the 18th-century satire could have been ripe for laughs – but this is subpar knockabout stuff
Size really doesn’t matter in this nonsensical kids’ animation reimagining Gulliver’s Travels. Because according to its version of Swift’s 18th-century satire, although Lemuel Gulliver did once visit a land called Lilliput, the people there were not in fact very small. However, after he left, the Lilliputian king – a right royal nincompoop – decreed that Gulliver was a giant. So when he returns to Lilliput as a man of average stature he is arrested as an imposter. Which makes zero sense and the movie only gets sillier from there.
Wayne Grayson voices Gulliver, a silver-tongued smarmy swashbuckler who sails the seas indulging in a bit of light plundering. One day he gets word from his mates on the island of Lilliput – who he once helped out of a jam – that they are under threat from an armada launched by neighbouring Blefuscu. So Gulliver rushes to Lilliput where he is sentenced to death for passing himself off as the Great Gulliver (since he left legend has rewritten him as a man mountain). Like I said, the plot is completely witless.
Gulliver Returns is released on 27 December on digital platforms.
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