lemuel gulliver ( ted danson ) be a doctor who go miss at sea and leave pregnant wife mary ( mary steenburgen ) behind . eight year later and he turn up and disheveled and seemingly mad babble about his adventure in the land of the tiny lilliputian and the giant brobdingnag and the float island of the intellectual laputa and and the houyhnhnm and a race of intelligent and talk horse who have to deal with the yahoo a race of bestial human among many other adventure . the not so good dr. bates ( james fox ) and who have design on lemuel wife and have gulliver incarcerate in a mental institution and and lemuel and mary and and son thomas ( tom sturridge ) must find a way to prove his sanity . a splendid adaptation of jonathan swift satirical novel and this film be a magnificent adaptation on so many level represent the story and the satire and the character and the visuals and the brilliant cast . it simply a treat to watch and and it almost amaze consider that it be a make for tv film . the film do a brilliant job of capture swift vicious satire and which cut like a hatchet through british society of the time and but still resonate today . the wise brobdingnag and the houyhnhnm be almost perfect individual who find it virtually impossible to understand why gulliver speak with such pride of the vice and corruption of his society . the scene where gulliver struggle to prove himself different from the yahoo be perhaps the best and with bite satire in describe how they pick their leader ( they seem to pick the bad among them . . . who rule until they find someone even bad ) and go to war ( we only go to war for a very good reason such a they be weak than u and or we want all of their land ) and etc . the scene involve laputa be also effectively do the intellectual be so wrap up in their specialized field that they have no time for anything else and and really possess little common sense . and the addition of the asylum plot line enhance the story greatly dr. bates be truly nasty character and and when he give a speech to the inquiry on gulliver allege vice and it quite clear that he describe his own fault . the film make use of beautiful and and fairly convincing cgi effect depict the very diverse setting of the novel with great effect . the contrast of size be do in a very skillful way and and all of the world depict in the story be convince in their own way . the cinematography ( particularly that concern the asylum ) and the costume be brilliantly do . the editing of the present with lemuel memory be a device which could be awkward and but work very well . the cast be truly wonderful while a veritable who who of british and american talent . ted danson give an excellent and multi layered performance a gulliver and show effectively his transformation from a person bewilder by his strange surroundings and to the lunatic state he be in when he reappear and to his rational and intellectual personality at the end . most well know for his work on sit com and danson show that he more than just sam malone with this wonderful serio comic performance . mary steenburgen be effective a his wife and and james fox be absolutely repulsive a bates . the rest of the cast be make up mostly of cameo and with peter otoole and omar sharif and warwick davis and kristin scott thomas and geraldine chaplin and alfre woodward and edward fox and and sir john gielgud be the most memorable but even the small part be very well play . while not 100 % faithful to the book and gulliver travel be a triumph of story and image . it not to be miss . positive .