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Summary: Inspector Gadget - a movie that your family will enjoy!
Review: I know that the movie didn't do as well in the box office and that critics bashed it. The question is why I bought this DVD. I have a few reasons actually. #1) I was a big fan of the animated series as a child. #2) I like Disney films #3) It was on sale. Three major reasons and yet I even struggled to watch it because it was bashed on so much and it was only 78 minutes long.So, I was expecting a bad film but you know what. I enjoyed it. I actually liked the movie. It's definitely not below average. Matthew 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 extra's. Yes, it's a miracle isn't it. The majority of all Disney DVD's don't have squat in them. This one has a 30 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. Otherwise a good movie for the young ones. Just a little warning for parents with younger children: Seeing Broderick with his head backwards or seeing him get blown up may frighten your child. So, all in all an enjoyable movie for the family.
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Summary: Inspector Gadget DVD Review: It's actually not that bad
Review: I was expecting a bad film but you know what. I enjoyed it. I actually liked the movie. It's definitely not below average. Matthew 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 extra's. Yes, it's a miracle isn't it. The majority of all Disney DVD's don't have squat in them. This one has a 30 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. Otherwise a good movie for the young teens. As for little children, not sure...seeing Broderick with his head backwards or seeing him get blown up may frighten the little children. Otherwise, this DVD is worth purchasing.
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Summary: The Best Of The Inspector
Review: Unlike Many, I KIND OF liked the show. I would give it at least a 3/5. This, however, is better than I expected. It has laughs for adults as well as children. I liked it when the fake Inspector Gadget scared that kid, everyone in the theater laughed their hearts out. Out of the origenal cartoon, the stupid Inspector Gadget Kid and the film you thought it COULDN'T be a sequel to this Inspector Gadget 2, this is definately the best.
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Summary: Yowsers!
Review: OK, I'll admit I was a fan of the cartoon show when I was a little kid although I am not really sure why. Perhaps it was the talented voices of (Get Smart) Don Adams and (A Different World) Cree Summer, the neat synthesized background music, or the show's childlike innocence. So when I first heard that they were producing a live action version of the cartoon, I was really excited! After all, the clips shown on TV looked pretty impressive. Anticipation was built up, but when I finally saw the movie in the theater, was I in for major shock and disappointment! I mean, this movie was bad...really, really...BAD! So bad that I couldn't wait for it to be over. So bad that I didn't hear a single response from a fellow audience member. It would have been just plain awful if it wasn't for the fine cast and decent special effects. Although there was nothing offensive about the movie, it was neither fun nor funny, just painfully unfunny! The script was terrible. None of the jokes or action sequences work. The origin of Inspector Gadget and explanation of his gadgetry were very poorly done - like something out of the TV show Family Matters with Steve Erkel. What a waste of time, money, talent, and a cool concept...
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Summary: A little chessy but 6 and under should not watch
Review: Well, I'm 10 right now buy when I was 6, the trailer scared me to death. Like the part when Gadget got captured by claw and took of his shirt and it just looked scary when I was 6. Well, after 4 years, we rented the DVD and watched it. Not as intense as it looked like when I was 6. I used to watch the TV show when I was 4. Just to tell you if you are 10 or older it will be sort of cheesy but watch it if you want to see the movie really bad. Only Rent it.
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Summary: fun and funny for the young
Review: i wouldn't really reccomend this movie for the older crowd who remember the 80's cartoon series. i think it was cool to learn the stuff like how he became the gadget guy. the acting was great! i agree with someone i saw that said in this movie the letters should self distruct! that would be hysterical. im sorry but i just couldn't accept that inspector gadget is self sufficient in this movie. in the cartoon series penny and brain were always having to save her uncle's butt! they should have gone more closely to the show! oh well. it's fun and a little funny because as usual matthew broderick is cute and funny and charming! maybe part II will be more closely tied to the show... but overall i would rent it not buy it. but your little boys, ill bet will absolutely love this movie!
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Summary: Go-Go-Gadget Remake!
Review: I was very excited to hear that this movie was coming to theaters! I have been a fan of the cartoon show since my youth. I must say, I was disappointed in this movie. First, one of my pet peeves is deceptive trailers! A good portion of material from the trailer was either left out entirely or rushed through as a flashback or afterthought. This movie has the air about it that budgets ran dry and rather than scrap the movie altogether, it was rushed to production. Disney needs to raise the bar on their live action movies. This was as much of a disappointment as Snow Dogs. If you are going to produce a movie based on a book, comic book, television show, etc., from a by-gone era, it would help if a fan of the material was involved in the production in my opinion. See this one once, but save your money on the video. Maybe they will release the old cartoon on DVD. I would buy the whole series!
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Summary: Good actors, bad plot!
Review: The Live action movie based on the animated Cartoon Inspector Gadget isn't as good as the cartoon but it had it's moments and the faults with the movie were not the actors who all did great with what they had to work with, the faults with the movie were the plot and that it lacked the charm and appeal of the cartoon but I think Matthew Broadrick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off), Joely Fisher (The Mask), and Michelle Trachtenberg (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) were all good and I give the movie 3 stars because of the actors but without them I would probably give the movie at least 2 stars.
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Summary: 'Interesting' Interpretation of the Inspector
Review: This movie is proof of how everything old is new again. I remember watching Inspector Gadget as a kid and now it has been recycled into a live-action movie. I bought it more out of curiosity than anything. Matthew Broderick is excellent as Rent-a-cop John Brown who is turned into Inspector Gadget, I didn't think he would pull off the cartoony-thing well, but he does! Joely Fisher is Dr. Brenda Bradford who carries on her late father's work by turning Brown into Gadget after he was maimed trying to protect her work from the evil Dr. Claw. Rupert Everett is hilarious as Sanford Scolex/Dr. Claw (even funnier is Andy Dick as one of his sidekicks).
As has also been the trend in cartoons on the big screen lately, there are some adult jokes that go right over the kids heads and some excessive cartoon violence. The funniest scene in the movie is when Gadget is with the Swami and grabs him inappropriately. Dabney Coleman is good as the chief of police, but he is not as good as the cartoon Chief Quimby. Yes, the Gadgetmobile is different too, but it has more attitude and deserves more screen time. Possibly the funniest person in the movie is Cheri Oteri as the ditzy 'Evil Gidget' mayor Wilson.
All in all, the movie is a fairly good interpretation of the cartoon Inspector Gadget with lots of special effects and a really good story line.
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Summary: Go-Go Gadget for this reivew
Review: This is a great remake of "Inspector Gadget" and smarter. Inspector Gadget turns from dumbfounded to smart and his real name is John Brown, we finally see Doctor Claw's face and his real name is Sanford Scolex, Penny and Brain sound the same, and Inspector Gadget found himself a soul mate, Chief Quimby dosen't blow up when he sends Inspector Gadget a message, and Dr. Claw has his own henchman (speaking of henchmen, where's the rest of his henchmen?). Gadget's Gadgetmobile can talk this time and dosen't look like Inspector Gaget's Gadgetmobile on TV. On Filmratings.com they are going to make an Inspector Gadget II. This is an excellent movie, including that this is the Real Inspector Gadget.
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