Guliver's Travel 2010 1 out of 10

Gulliver's Travels   2010  1 out of 10

Is Jack Black funny???   NOT SO MUCH.....I just don't get it (unless he is a cartoon panda).     In human form I just can't seem to tolerate his presence on the screen.   I honestly have no idea why I even recorded Gulliver's Travels on the DVR and I certainly have no idea what then made me want to watch it....but I did.   Maybe I wanted to see how this classic story would be done with modern special effect?  Well Gulliver's Travels was just a lame stage for Jack Black to dance around like a buffoon on and fail again to prove that he is funny in any way shape or form.   Some people  must think he is great ....I guess otherwise he wouldn't keep showing up in movies....I'm not one of those people.

Everything he does seems to forced.  He is like the grown man that dresses up in a diaper and dances around saying "look at me ...Look at me"  because he wants attention.  This so called family film lost me the second  Jack Black  (a giant in Lilliputian)  pees on the castle in order to put out a fire......Not funny and neither is this movie.....This Gulliver's Travels was a travel into boredom that literally put me to sleep.

Skip it and read the book.

Troll 2 1990 4 out of 10 (I've seen worse)

Troll 2 is widely talked about as one of the worst movies ever...  I've seen several of the supposed worst movies of all-time and although Troll 2 is really bad---it isn't the worst movie ever...I think like with how good Citizen Kane is considered (very overated as a movie--although inspiring with its camera work)  this just didn't live up to that worst movie ever billing.   Plan 9 from Outer Space does.   Plan 9 is so bad that it is good.   I would put The Mummy Themepark up against this movie any day in the worst movie of all-time category.     Troll 2 is just bad enough to still be bad...Where as The Mummy Theme park is so bad that it is great.

So what does Troll 2 entail.   A bunch of Goblins from the town of  Nilbog  (that is Goblin backwards).  Turn people into vegetables so they can eat them.  The Goblin costumes are terrible.  I felt like they were trying to rip off the Peter Jackson New Zealand low budget classic Bad Taste to a certain degree and just got it wrong.  There is a great bad performance by Deborah Reed as the Goblin Queen (I think she read the script wrong and thinks she is part vampire).    So yes it is terrible---but I think it is overrated as far as  being one of the worst.