Production Year: 1999 - Comedy - Director: David Kellogg - Original Language: English - Classification: Universal - Starring: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg more
John Brown, a clueless security guard, experiences the wrath of the evil Dr Claw, but Dr Brenda Bradford transforms John into Inspector Gadget - who is the ultimate crime-fighting tool...
seems long even at 80 minutes. As a video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what works best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the secu...
seems long even at 80 minutes. As a video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what works best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the secu...
Inspector Gadget DVD
Wowser! Disney's Inspector Gadget turbocharges to life in a wild and quirky adventure ... more
comedy with a thousand moving parts! During a daring rescue attempt John Brown (Matthew Broderick) a na'ƒ¯ve and clueless security guard experiences the wrat...
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Inspector Gadget 2
Get ready for more wild adventures packed with double the special effects, double the ... more
gadgets, and double the fun of the original. It's Disney's all-new INSPECTOR GADGET 2. Just when things are quieting down in Riverton, everything goes wrong. Inspector Gadget is put on probation. Claw stages a daring escape from prison and plots a new Crime of the Century. And the Mayor unveils a new and improved G2 -- an all-robot, all-tech, all-female gadget! Could it get any worse for our hero? Mishaps, miscues, stakeouts, and showdowns ensue as Inspector Gadget (French Stewart - Love Stinks ) and G2 (Elaine Hendrix, The Parent Trap) set off to go save the world with a little help from their friends -- niece Penny, her dog Brain, and the wildly tricked-out Gadgetmobile!
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Robin Williams' excruciatingly awful Popeye was probably the last time anyone really tried to bring a cartoon strip faithfully to life on the screens without any pretence of transforming it into real life, i.e. almost Dick Tracy-like bug eyed gaudy technicolour and gumball headcaseness, but this time they did it with more style and elan and all round comic sensibility, such that the only thing that was missing from the original cartoon strip was the manic sticky out hair of Matthew Broderick's original role model.
Inspector Gadget is a real piece of bizarre cartoon work made impossibly solid in a way that you could be mistaken for wondering exactly why they bothered with humans at all, it would have been so much easier if they'd just stuck to the pencils and paint instead. However, there is a certain grim satisfaction in seeing the smugly smooth Broderick for once completely out of control as his special utility gifts take over.
You also get Rupert Everett as one smarmily loathsome baddie, who is a cross between Max Headroom and Kryten from Red Dwarf, the epitome of English aloofness, clipped vowels and totally extreme evil, the man who corrupts the original Gadget design and produces a manic, good time guy who uses his powers so much more usefully, don't you think? And he has such wonderfully distinctive teeth...
The original Inspector Gadget cartoon series was a pretty feeble animation in truth about a sort of whacked out Six Million Dollar Man who has been equipped with all sorts of little wheezes under his regulation super sleuth trenchcoat and pork pie hat. You could never take it seriously, but it did have a wonderful sort of lunatic charm with its improbable premises and bizarre invention, and its transmutation to the big screen somehow makes absolutely wonderful sense as Broderick takes to the skies powered by the helicopter in a hat.
The mood is so Roger Rabbit that you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is Who Framed Part 2 and it has the same manic charm and other worldliness as Bob Hoskins' vehicle. Now whether you like Inspector Gadget or not very much depends on whether you liked Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and I loved that film.
Unfortunately, this is where the good news ends, because Inspector Gadget doesn’t have the same zap and magic as Rabbit and comes over as a pretty slapdash effort which is eclipsed by the original feeble cartoon. You’d have to be particularly cruel and unsympathetic to write it off completely but it’s mainly suited for kids with just enough knowing winks to keep the big kids marginally interested.
I should warn you, however, that the film is billed as 80 minutes, but only checks in at 70 - the rest of the time is taken up with some supposedly amusing extra scenes ... value this ain't. In reality, it could have been cut down to about an hour long TV special, but then they couldn't have billed it as a feature length, now could they?
Broderick plays John Brown, a mild mannered security guard, who falls foul of Everett as the Claw as he seeks to steal some dastardly invention and in the crash that follows Brown is transformed into Inspector Gadget while Everett becomes a sort of modern day Captain Hook with attitude and battles bitterly (or wryly) to the end with Robocop with springs…
I can sum up this film as OKAY, nothing special, but watchable enough while your tea cooks because it won’t stop you nipping out every five minutes to check it… I managed not to burn the sausages while this film was on, so you see what I mean…
United States, 1999 U.S. Release Date: 7/23/99 (wide) Running Length: 1:15 MPAA Classification: PG (Mild profanity, sexual innuendo, cartoon violence) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Cast: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Dabney Coleman, Andy Dick, Michael G. Hagerty, Cheri Oteri Director: David Kellogg Producers: Jordan Kerner, Roger Birnbaum, Andy Heyward Screenplay: Kerry Ehrin and Zak Penn Cinematography: Adam Greenberg Music: John Debney U.S. Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
Advantages: Good Tv to Movie conversion, familiar character and theme Disadvantages: Thin plot, not everyones cup of tea
As we all know, Inspector Gadget was a hit kids TV show some years ago. We all watched it, we all loved it (or at least I did), and eventually some years later Disney Studios made the film. Starring Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget, we see the story of how he become 'Gadget' from an ordinary human. For most film companies it would be hard to transform this TV show into a box office hit, but to Disney it was just a matter of course. And they ... ...person to be turned into Inspector Gadget. So they operate on him, installing all the weird and wonderful gadgets and gizmos that make Inspector Gadget what he is. Then he wakes up, and the mayhem happens. Obviously, with all these gadgets, thing are going to go wrong, and indeed they do. He then gets introduced to his new car, which is rather like Kit out of Knight Rider, but more modern and more Disney. OK, that’s enough about the plot, so ...
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Advantages: quite like the comic Disadvantages: not enough like the comic for me personally though
...the live action version of Inspector Gadget with his nemesis Dr Claw, his niece Penny and her dog Brain as well as his poor boss The Chief. All the standard characters lifted from the cartoon and placed into a movie wiht not much thought and very little plot sadly. The "dream" start lets you know what your in for & seeing a pigtailed Michelle Trachtenberg lets you know we're staying in the teen demographic. Right, firstly. Claw's hand is not anywhere ... ...been given the rank of Inspector already, is it? It's a rank that takes at least a decade to reach. Rupert Everett as Dr Claw (Or just plain Claw as he wants to be known), is just to pretty to be a bad guy. And please? STOP typecasting British people as bad guys in movies. The whole "Law enforcement professional hurt in the line of duty and rebuilt as a cybernetic better individual" has been totally done to death starting with stuff like Joe 90, ...
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What a laugh Review ofInspector Gadget (DVD)by
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Advantages: Hilarious, special effects, sounds, storyline Disadvantages: N/A
I watched this film after my husband said it was a laugh. I'm glad I did it was such a laugh I can tell you.
Although its much like the cartoon (which by the way I didn't watch) but this film is worth watching its much more fun than the cartoon and the story is great. I never knew how Gadget got his inventory until I watched the film.
This film has alot going for it, its a laugh, the storyline is good, the special effects are worthwhile and the ...
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Advantages: The theme tune Disadvantages: The film
Inspector Gadget, the cartoon, was about a cop who, for reasons which escape me, had a variety of cybernetic implants which would malfunction at the most inopportune moment. His crime detecting skills were as hit and miss as his implants were, resulting in his niece and her dog coming to the rescue.
Inspector Gadget, the movie, is dreadful.
No, seriously, it is dreadful.
Matthew Broderick, a talented (but overlooked) actor, plays the inspector, ... ...voiced the cartoon's Chief Quimby (the police chief who would pass information to Gadget, only to be the victim of the self destructing notes)) is totally wasted.
The only redeeming feature of this film is the score, with the theme tune of Inspector Gadget getting an amazing orchestral make over. ...
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...Broderick is actually a good Inspector Gadget. I think with the way movies are, many people tend to want to see a different Inspector Gadget, perhaps someone more violent. Well, if that's the case...there is the Criterion edition of Robocop with the added gory scenes that you can buy. This movie was made for kids as was the cartoon and I'm a kid at heart because I grew up with the show.
One of the things you'll notice is that it's a Disney DVD with ... ...minute featurette on "Go Inside Inspector Gadget". It also has a music video from Youngstown and the trailer. Not bad Disney...keep adding more! Also, the sound is well done with the 5.1. Good use of the rear channels!
One negative was the layer change. It was during a so-so important scene and that was not good to place it in that area of the movie. They could of put it somewhere else.
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Plot: John Brown, a clueless security guard, experiences the wrath of the evil Dr Claw, but Dr Brenda Bradford transforms John into Inspector Gadget - who is the ultimate crime-fighting tool...
DVD Description
John Brown, a clueless security guard, experiences the wrath of the evil Dr Claw, but Dr Brenda Bradford transforms John into Inspector Gadget - who is the ultimate crime-fighting tool...
Release details
DVD Region: DVD
Studio(s): WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINM; TECHNICOLOR DISTRIBUTION SERVICES
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