this production be quite well do for a television original and provide a very appropriate original slant on swift work . to make the frame story work well the film begin with gulliver arrive home . everyone who have read the book know that will happen anyway . the frame story of the book have gulliver craze confusion in section . for example and he be horrify that he will trample little people in england because he have just return from a land of giant . but the film have all the book section within one long voyage . when gulliver narrate his travel the edit cut from england to the travel be very effective . i confess i find them intrusive and irritate at first and then they become natural . by the end and moreover and they have become a welcome addition to the story . a he tell his adventure to a large and large audience and more and more people listen to his compelling fantasy even though they doubt it truth . for example and his hatred of filthy yahoo and admiration of pure logic from the fourth section come across well when he be defend his own sanity . the intercuts between event in england and similar event or scene in the tale be very effective . for example and rip the cloth from the table to suggest the motion of tow a group of ship be inspired filming . the addition of gulliver family threaten by the lecherous doctor work well . swift only hint at this by have the long suffering wife protest against further voyage . it become a natural part of this story . the casting and act be competent throughout . some role be exemplary . omar sharif mad magician be superb . otoole little emperor be dodder delightfully toward senility . many specific complaint make by other writer here strike me a simple personal preference and which and after all and be what we be about here . i read the abridged version several time a year from fourth grade on . i may have escape the complete version until a college class but have read it a few time since . and i have to start it again a i begin read about this film . while the danson version be superior to any previous film and it do not replace the book . however and i think it will bring many reader to the book . if you have not read the book and enjoy this movie then go to the source . if you appreciate the satire in it and find swift a modest proposal and his drapier letter . both be satire attack the wretched treatment of ireland and the irish during swift time . the drapier protest cheap and inflated copper coin be dump on ireland . these be wood light weight coinage and not good for face value in pay tax and official debt . the outcry from swift satire cause the coin to be send to another mistreat british territory and the american colony . the universal satire in swift book and this movie just poke fun while they can not change human nature . give danson torturous experience a chance . i think you will find them think provoke and entertain .