: Inspector Gadget
Author: Andy Heyward (creator) and Jean Chalopin
Director: David Kellogg
If anyone would like this movie, it should be me, as I’m a huge fan of the cartoon. But while the movie felt like a cartoon, it didn’t feel like an Inspector Gadget cartoon. What made the original great was that Gadget never realized it when his gadgets saved him or injured the bad guys — he just kept going along in his own little world, accidentally setting off gadgets and saving the world. Like Inspector Cloussou, Gadget was always the irrepressible optimist and that made him likable, even if he was a terrible detective. The movie has some impressive special effects (though one aerial sequence has some horribly amateurish green screen work) and it’s ultimately harmless. I was also impressed that the movie didn’t include a lot of the vulgar, adult-oriented humor that seems to pervade most kid-oriented movies of recent days (Austin Powers and Wild Wild West come to mind).
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