Depressed by his
dead-end job in the mail room of a
New York City newspaper,
Lemuel Gulliver decides to impress his crush, journalist Darcy Silverman, by convincing her he can write a report about his extensive world "travels". After suffering
writer's block and thinking that Darcy will not want to hang out with a "guy from the mail room", Gulliver
plagiarizes a report. The next day, Darcy, impressed by his writing, presents Gulliver with a new task – to travel to the
Bermuda Triangle and write an article about the legends of ships mysteriously disappearing there. Upon arriving in
Bermuda, Gulliver rents a ship and travels into the triangle. After falling asleep at the helm, he is caught in a storm, and the ship is overwhelmed by a
waterspout. Gulliver washes up unconscious on the island of
Lilliput, where he is seen as a "beast" by the town's tiny people. After the citizens claim him to be dangerous because of his size, Gulliver is imprisoned in a large cave. There, he meets another prisoner named Horatio, who was jailed by General Edward Edwardian, because he loves Princess Mary, whom Edward is pursuing. After the island across from Lilliput, Blefuscia, orders some commandos to kidnap Mary, Gulliver breaks free and rescues her. He also saves her father, King Theodore, from a fire by
urinating on it. Gulliver is declared a hero by Lilliput's citizens and lies that he is the President of Manhattan. Edward is outraged by the luxurious accommodations that have been built for Gulliver and for being presented as an honorary
general of the Lilliputian Army. The next day, the Blefuscian Navy lays siege to the city when Edward shuts down its defense system as revenge for Gulliver's treatment. Gulliver defeats the armada, invulnerable to the
cannonballs being fired at him. Embarrassed, and with Mary no longer wanting anything to do with him, Edward defects to the Blefuscians and brings blueprints of a robot from Gulliver's
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock game manual for revenge. The Blefuscians secretly build the robot, with Edward as the
pilot. The Blefuscians then invade Lilliput, and the robot-wielding Edward makes Gulliver admit to the people that he is "just the guy from the mail room". Edward banishes Gulliver to the shores of "the island where we dare not go" (
Brobdingnag), where he is captured by a "little" girl (
Glumdalclitch) who towers over him while Edward begins renaming Lilliput "New Blefuscia". Gulliver wakes in a pink dress in the girl's dollhouse, and she treats him as a doll, playing with him roughly. Horatio, who has gone to find Gulliver after being spurned by Mary, reveals to Gulliver that Darcy was imprisoned by the Blefuscians after she was lost in the Bermuda Triangle in the same manner as Gulliver. Gulliver escapes with him, using a
parachute that he took from the skeleton of a dead
U.S. Air Force pilot sitting in the dollhouse. Accepting a duel from Edward, Gulliver defeats him with the assistance of Horatio, who disables the machine's electrocuting weapon. Horatio is hailed a hero and gets King Theodore's permission to court Mary. When Edward recovers from the battle and desperately threatens to kill Mary, she punches him in the face. King Theodore sentences all Blefuscians to the gallows or to prepare for war, but Gulliver helps to make peace between the two nations by reciting
Edwin Starr's "
War", and he and Darcy return to New York on their repaired ship. Gulliver, now a legitimate travel writer, takes Darcy to lunch, after returning from another travel assignment. ==Cast==