Inspector Gadget | | Cast : | Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher | | Director : | David Kellogg | | Studio : | Walt Disney Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | July 23, 1999 | | DVD Released Date : | January 25, 2005 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | July 05, 2005 | | Summary | I thought it was better than 2! | Content
 | When I first saw this movie I didn't think I would like it because as for the previews I saw it looked somewhat corny but then when I watched it I thought it wasn't that bad of a movie. I like Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget he really did a great job but as for the sequel I thought the sequel was horribly bad and the actors couldn't act. I do agree that the first Inspector Gadget is corny but it's still fun to watch as it's based on the popular cartoon series. Though the characters look really different then the real characters in the cartoon but it's still a great movie. Just don't bother seeing the sequel it's bad. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 30, 2005 | | Summary | OK | Content
| this was better than Inspector Gadget 2, and i admit that David Kellogg did a better job of directing than Alex Zamm.
Matthew Broderick was pretty good and the movie was fairly funny.
BUT it just seems really typical and corny.
2.8 out of 5 |
| Rating | | | Date | December 21, 2004 | | Summary | I thought it was very good | Content
| I want to tell everyone before this that I never saw the cartoon Inspector Gadget, so I am not going to write anything about the movie not being true to the original. I thought it was very good on many levels. I think that it brought a more human side to the cartoon my cousins talk about as being very comic and silly. Matthew Broderick gives a very good performance, especially in the more awkward moments of the movie.
The movie begins by showing the dreams of John Brown, a security guard who would love to be a cop. We find out later that he really wants to help people, but his boss thinks that he doesn't have enough experience. He works on the parking lot of the robotics office of Dr. Bardford, a female doctor who Brown secretly likes. Claw (not yet Claw, but Sanford Scolex) breaks into the robotics lab and steals their robotic foot and kills Dr. Bradford's father. Brown, who always wants to help people, goes after the villian. He ends up being blown up and his bowling ball ends up landing on Claw's hand. Brown has many fractures and other injuries and is taken to the hospital, where Doctor Bradford turns Brown into a crime fighting robot named Inspector Gadget. Hence the movie's name Inspector Gadget. The rest of the movie basically tells us about what happens while he is Gadget, and how he catches the bad guy, etc. I would really recommend it better than the sequel, Inspector Gadget 2. Inspector Gadget 2 is not as good as the original simply because the first has Matthew Broderick. |
| Rating | | | Date | December 14, 2004 | | Summary | Go-go Gadget Hearthrob....uggh | Content
| I grew up watching Inspector Gadget in the 1980's, and was always fascinated by Penny's computer book. Since I only had to make do with a now obsolete Commodore 64 computer system, I thought that one book was the coolest part of the show.
Sure, living with an uncle who you were smarter than would occasionally challenge the nerves, but Gadget (whose first name was never revealed) also seemed like a genuinely nice guy who tried to do the right thing.
Before she ruined Buffy, Michelle Trachtenberg defamed Penny. In this movie, she appears as a brunette who lacks a computer (book) or otherwise to help Uncle Gadget---and basically save the day. In fact, Trachtenberg is not doing much of anything during this screenplay.
Matthew Broderick's Gadget in contrast, is a ladies man. He meets up with Dr. Brenda Bradford (Joely Fisher) who ultimately is Robo Brenda. Since this is a family film, nothing bad happens but the idea of Inspector Gadget attracting anybody is really hard to take. He's SUPPOSED to be a bumbler who does not get the woman, the anti-James Bond for kids.
Chief Quimby's (Dabney Coleman) appearance also poses some problems. He is too old and too thin in this movie. Chief Quimby is supposed to be a rotund person with light brown hair.
Finally, the crucial part of Dr. Claw's sinister persona is that the audience only sees his hand. Rupert Everett is not supposed to show his face or have an actual claw for a hand. The studios could have saved bundles of their precious money (and made this screen play more authentic) by hiring a literal nobody to sit behind a chair and speak into a voice distorter while an animatronic MAD cat was giggling in agreement. According to the cartoon, Dr. Claw actually had a metal gloved hand with a spiked gold bracelet.
Since Andy Heyward oversaw production on both the earlier cartoon and then this movie, I am really shocked by the large discrepancies. If he cannot exercise product control over his own cartoon product, I really have no sympathy for this film's poor returns. The people who would have incentive to revive their franchise with a great live action film, blew it instead.
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| Rating | | | Date | November 20, 2004 | | Summary | An Adroit Live Action Master Work | Content
| Inspector Gadget offers more than you'd expect from a superhero blockbuster with dazzling special effects and a well-written script. The casting is the true strength of the film. Matthew Broderick has always won critical acclaim, due to his superb acting versatility in films including War Games, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Cable Guy, and Godzilla. In his finest performance, Broderick transforms the two dimensional cartoon character made famous by Don Adams, from a security guard into a compassionate, crimefighting cyborg, made up of equal parts of "MacGyver" and "Robocop" with tear-jerking results. |
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