I love animation from the Fleischer Studios, along with Disney,Rankin/Bass, Hanna/Barbera and Studio Ghibli from Japan; and this is a excellent film,and beautifully animated from the very studio that delight us with KoKo the Clown,Betty Boop,Popeye the Sailor and Superman. My favorite characters from the film are Princess Glory (she's really beautiful and I should tell you that this film is the reason I love her singing voice actress - Jessica Dragonette), Prince David and Gabby the town-crier (he's very funny). The film has an excellent soundtrack with great songs too.

I was quite intrigued with the story of Gulliver and his adventures in the land of Lilliput,I had watched the Mickey Mouse cartoon "Gulliver Mickey" from 1934 and the version with Sanrio's Keroppi the frog,and I think I would like to read the original novel sometime (I love literary films both animated and live action); in short, Gulliver is great fun, and should be enjoyed by everyone in the family - young nor old.

It looks like I'm in the minority on this one, but watching a rotoscoped Gulliver wandering about whittling things and saying "My, my!" while the Lilliputans rush around and make fools of themselves isn't my idea of entertainment. I admit that my DVD copy is a rather badly washed out print, but even if it were a pristine restoration I doubt that I could find much to keep my attention in this film. It's full of relentless slapstick which isn't funny, and mostly involves people falling over each other, and features a couple of songs which frankly are pretty dull. The drawing style is terribly old fashioned of course, which in this case I just can't help finding alienating rather than cute. I realise this is a personal thing, but to an extent it's the same reason you don't see a review of 'Snow White' from me here. I don't think I could sit through it again to review it.

It's interesting, I suppose, that Fleischer didn't change their style so radically when they went to feature films. The slapstick ten sight-gags per minute style which typified the animated shorts of the period is largely preserved, whereas Disney never let the comedy sequences really dominate their early movies.

I'll give Gulliver two stars, because there's no doubt that in its day it would have been far, far more impressive, and if it were 1939 I'd probably be writing about this as if it were the new Dreamworks feature. I'm afraid though that this is just too old-school even for me. Unless you really like very old-fashioned animation and humour, or are interested in animation history, you might find yourself pretty bored. All the same, it's a shame Flesicher went under, because it would have been interesting to see what they'd produced if they'd survived side-by-side with Disney through the next few decades.

Gulliver's Travels....I generally quibble over movies-based-on-books which have little or nothing to do with the book.

But though the plot has been terribly altered, the essential basis of Gulliver's adventure on Lilliput remains: it's about a land of small-minded silly people fighting a war over an insignificant difference. Perhaps a touch preachy (especially during Gulliver's arrogant scolding at the end) but it's a story that speaks out in praise of compromise, which is rare enough.

The film is a bit dated, but I feel it has weathered the passage of time far better than Snow White, its contemporary. (It's a sad loss to the world that Fleischer Studios died.) Scenes of characters dancing the jitterbug, and takeoffs on old vaudeville personalities and clichés give it a feel that can only be described as classic.

On the other hand, Gabby's tedious recital-in-rhyme about a whale is the sort of pointless movie scene I'm sure nobody misses, and a few other scenes which might have been considered witty once are now only dull. The binding-up-Gullver scene feels like it takes up a fourth of the movie! And the Prince and Princess are so entirely...well the only perfect word that comes to mind is British--wet. No personality, totally passive, soppy and nauseating. The princess is particularly bland, but since she's pretty much the only female in the movie, no wonder the prince wants her. (Oh, and the Prince sings in baritone but speaks in treble. ) )

The music of Gulliver is excellent--Faithful/Forever is a sweet tune, and there is barely a song in the film which isn't delightfully singable--All's Well, for example, and that little verse Gulliver sings as he looks out to sea. The songs of the film stick in your mind.

When I was a child, the little spy was the highight of the film for me, and he's still cute. (The spies' names are Sneak, Snoop and Snitch, if you're interested!) The conflict between the personalities of King Little and King Bombo is also delightful--the waltzing scene cracks me up every time. There's lots of slapsticky humor and gags in Gulliver, ranging widely in sophistication.

In short, Gulliver is good fun, and should not be missed, as long as you're willing to make a few allowances for age.

I love this movie! I remember this was one of the first animated movies I owned or even saw really. For the time it was made the animation was pretty good, and it's the old fashioned animation. So very cartoonish looking like the older Looney Toons. I love the story of Gulliver too. It doesn't necesarily follow the book though, and only follows the tale on Lilliput.

There is plenty of humor in this film, but it also has a few tender moments as well. The music fits the mood very well throughout the movie. The songs are nice too and none really seem out of place.

If you haven't seen this one pick it up sometime. It's normally fairly easy to find and low in price.

This cartoon doesn't show the book's political satire image and only includes the Lilliput adventure. So what? It's still one of the all time greats. The animation is definitely of the classic era feel. Think old school Popeye. The characters are wacky and hilarious, but the movie can also be thought provoking, what with its Romeo and Juliet themes and the inclusion of Gulliver's "Thunder Machine". The movie's song "Faithful Forever" is a heart-rending song right up there with Dumbo's "Baby Mine".