Inspector Gadget
1999  PG  COMEDY  1h 18min
CAST— Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher, Michelle Trachtenberg, Dabney Coleman
MUSIC— John Debney  DIRECTOR— David Kellogg  BASED ON— Characters appearing on Inspector Gadget (television)

     Inane attempt at comedy, based on a cartoon from the ‘80s. Security guard Matthew Broderick dreams of protecting and serving as a police officer, that and wooing the lovely doctor at the medical complex he guards. While defending her he is involved in a terrible accident that leaves him barely hanging on. It’s a good thing the doctor’s into gadgetry. She repairs him with cybernetic implants that do all manner of wacky things. And the newly dubbed Inspector Gadget had best learn to use them; The Claw, an evil scientist, is on the loose and he’s clawing his way to the top using unscrupulous methods. It’s up to Gadget to stop The Claw, using every go-go-gadget in the book and just maybe he’ll have time for a little romance along the way. What could have been a fun homage to a fun cartoon feels more like a dumbed down rehash that should never have been. The so-called comedy is so stupid as to be almost insulting. This film can go-go in the garbage.
OUR RATING— *
FOLLOWED BY— Inspector Gadget 2 (2003)