Inspector Gadget was released in 1999 and is based on the cartoon of the same title. It was directed by David Kellogg and stars Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget, and Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny. Also making an appearance are Joely Fisher, Dabney Coleman, Michael G. Hagerty and Rupert Everett. The film follows a man (John Brown soon to become Gadget) who has an accident while attempting to stop someone who has just killed Dr Brenda Bradford's father and stole his work. When he wakes up, he finds that his body has been repaired by an array of gadgets, thanks to Dr.Bradford, who has made him into a robotic crime fighting man-machine. I ...  Read the complete review

When I was younger, I loved the inspector Gadget cartoons. It was always fun seeing such a bumbling, silly, grown up character be set straight by a child character. As in the '80s cartoon, the movie Inspector Gadget starred with Gadgets neice, Penny. The biggest difference between the cartoon and the movie was that Penny isn't the one that saves Gadgets butt, in the movie, it's the Gadgetmobile. Matthew Broderick plays Inspector Gadget, a security guard turned high-tech 'gadget' cop, after an accident leaves him practically dead. The movie goes through Gadget fighting crime, trying to catch the evil 'Claw', and get the ...  Read the complete review

The first few minutes of this movie were cool!!! The classic Inspector Gadget theme tune plays away in the background. And Mr.T. appears in the ending credits. Those are the only goods thing about this movie. The picture fails on almost every level. Matthew Broderik is pretty good as the inspector, but the material he has is soo poor even he can't save the picture. The plot is as thin as a go-go-gadget tissue. A Securtiy guard suffers big-time damage when the evil Claw breaks into a lab, so the labs owner rebuilds he as a robot-detective despite him being dumb. S he goes up against Claw, who builds his own Evil Gadget. And thats about it. ...  Read the complete review

Nostalgia is a dangerous thing - it can sap all the fun from the present and future, if you let it! But having said that people are inclined to prefer the first format of any entertainment based medium, ‘I thought the book was better’ for instance, or in this case ‘….oh, I don’t know, the cartoon just had something extra’. The live action version of Inspector Gadget is identical to the cartoon version in every respect, with no CGI expense being spared to depict the wild range of wacky gadgets crammed into the Inspector. His bumbling-come-good persona excellently portrayed by Matthew Broderick. He didn’t attempt to ...  Read the complete review

I found this movie to be very good when I first watched it but that was probably because I was a small child of five or six. After watching this movie again I regrettably have to say it is terrible and that Matthew Broderick was a horrible acting choice. I still love the TV series that this was based on and have to say that Don Adams was by far a much greater actor. In this movie Gadget is not really a bumbling idiot who knows nothing like in the cartoons as he instantly knows that this person is a mad agent and so is that guy over there were as in the cartoon he would never be able to tell even when his mission was over. Penny and Brain either had a very small part in ..  Read the complete review