Inspector Gadget (1999)

Just for kids, this 1999 live-action feature version of the popular cartoon series seems long even at 80 minutes. For video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what is best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the security guard who is physically transformed into a cyborg with a multi-use attachments billions, from the stage into the helicopter blades to skis. A crimefighter in raincoat and fedora, and equipped with good Gadgetmobile, heroes investigate the death of a man associated with evil Sanford Scolex (Rupert Everett). Scolex, who blames Gadget to have to wear a fake hand, developed a robotic evil twin of a good inspector, causing much damage and provide Broderick an opportunity to mock his own performance virtuous Inspector. Action shaky, the script plods along, and the effects soon take over; Everett has gone to extremes just to be seen hamminess on it. But the children of certain age will almost certainly be involved with things smarter and forgive the rest.

A short blast means the fun of Disney. TV series expanded, but not many, have special effects, cheerful magic-toy shop feel to them, and plots the same low-tech. A humble security guard (Matthew Broderick) was blown up and then reconstituted, under his trademark raincoat (which makes it look like a dirty old man) lurk a thousand gizmos. Each of the fingertip, for example, contains different tools, and his head would fly up in the spring. So accoutred, our people are ready to fight evil forces, as incarnated in the person not Rupert Everett. Confusion A: Broderick and Everett should be ashamed to find himself in a coat, or should we be grateful that they agreed to lend a little class? The quantity and intensity of product placement, including last-minute plug for Disneyland, is the art of public relations victory, it was a shame that the movie lags so far behind.