Inspector Gadget (PG) ** Starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett Directed by David Kellogg A Review by Frankie Paiva
Inspector Gadget is another one of my favorite cartoons. Rugrats and Doug have been made into movies, why not this classic series? However, Disney decides to take the production another way. This Inspector Gadget is a live action super crime fighting machine. He's always in control, he's not stupid, and the whole Mission Impossible bit from the TV show is completely lost.
Broderick is a security guard one night when Brenda (Joely Fisher) and her father have been working on creating a fully robotic anamatronic crime fighting machine, Claw (Rupert Everett) breaks in to steal their prototype foot and they break into a chase. Broderick is sent to intensive care, but not before hitting Claw's hand with a bowling ball.
Claw then proceeds, (with the help of mad scientist Andy Dick) to create a clone of Gadget. He's decked out with guns and other killing machines, his mission is to destroy the original Gadget. Claw's idea is to make everyone in the world pay for his killing machines so he can become rich. Add a couple of bad spoofs and you've got another bad Disney movie.
Plus, this movie loses all sight of the original cartoon. It throws in a miscast Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, D.L. Hughley as a talking car, and Dabney Coleman as the chief of police. There however is enough content here to make this movie watchable, the gadgets are pretty cool, and some of the humor is funny, (the was extremely surprised to find no fart and poop jokes) this is mostly credited to Cheri Oteri who plays the town's glamorous, if not dim-witted major.
So why would I give this movie ** stars you ask? Stay for the credits! There are two scenes, one in particular (where we get to hear Brain talk) that make up (at least for me) almost the entire movie. If your kids drag you to it, it won't be that painful, but I still give it ** stars.
A Review by Frankie Paiva The 12 Year-Old Movie Reviewer E-Mail me at SwpStke@aol.com
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