He finds himself washed up on a beach, and surrounded by little people. He gets to know them, and finds them to be horribly warlike, corrupt, and so rediculous in thier methods of decision making it's laughable. Since he is too large to feel threatened he finds his situation amusing, when we know that these same policies would be disastrous and scary in real life.
Next, he is in a land of Giants, and is at first paraded as a momey-making scam by some pesants before he makes it to the palace of the queen of the land to be a jester. This land is a suposed utopia of freedom and equality in which people all bring thier crops to a central trading area, where the food and wealth is distributed with equality. Gulliver holds a series of lectures about his own society and why they do things the way they do. Of course, these enlightened people who know nothing of war find his stories to be a terrible thing. However, this liberal utopia also has it's faults. Not everyone is really happy with thier place in society, espically the person who Gulliver replaced in the castle. The rich royalty are content to talk about equality and pat themselves on the back for thier tolerance and good treatment of the poor, while giving everyone else the jobs of feeding the pigs and working in the fields.
Next, he finds his way to a great floating island populated by intilictuals who contemplate the sun, moon, stars. At first he is impressed by thier intelect and great powers, but soon enough discovers these geniouses are so full of themselves for thier genious that they cannot see the world for what it is or even communicate with others without being beaten with a baloon to keep them from 'drifting off' while in conversation.
He also finds his way to the home of a sorcerer who keeps him drugged and captive. After finding a creative way to escape this place he is at sea once again and is washed up onto a land of savages and of horses. The cavemen are the opitomy of every vise of people. The horses on the other hand exist in balance and harmony with nature. Gulliver finds a home with these creatures, until some incidences lead the horses to judge him as a 'yahoo' savage, and he is banished once again. With this final tale, he is also in a trial to judge his sanity. Throughoud the whole movie the memories of his journey are like halucinations, and Gulliver himself a madman. He is finally able to use the final experience as a story to plead his sanity, and the rediclousness of some socital vices.
A good family movie, I enjoy it very much.
