Michelle Trachtenberg Movie:

Editorial Review:
Strictly for kids, this 1999 live-action feature version of the popular cartoon series seems long even at 80 minutes. As a video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what works best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the security guard who is physically transformed into a multi-use cyborg with a zillion attachments, from stilts to helicopter blades to skis. A crimefighter in raincoat and fedora, and equipped with a nifty Gadgetmobile, the hero investigates the death of a man linked to the villainous Sanford Scolex (Rupert Everett). Scolex, who blames Gadget for having to wear a prosthetic hand, develops an evil robot twin of the good inspector, causing much mischief and giving Broderick an opportunity to poke fun at his own performance of the virtuous Inspector. The action is shaky, the script plods along, and the effects soon take over; Everett has to go to the extremes of hamminess just to be seen above it. But children of a certain age will almost certainly engage with the more clever stuff and forgive the rest. --Tom Keogh

Inspector Gadget [Region 2] Reviews:
Pleased as punch...
2009-09-22 - Old fishermen never die, they just smell like it.
I can't say exactly the same for this movie but it still holds true that the good never die, they live on forever.
I only wish Broderick had starred for the sequel too. The music is even more addicting than the show is and yet still worked out to be an animated series as well.
TLC.

go go gadget great!
2009-07-21 - super awesome! i have seen the cartoon also but i think there both about the same. but they show dr.claws face i mean come on!they should have at least waited till the end of the movie!but a great movie for the family! but it might be scary to young kids with gadget getting blown up and dr.claw getting his hand smashed but still awesome movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One Of Disney's Better Live-Action Efforts
2009-02-24 - Wowzer!

Overall, this is a very entertaining movie, one of the better live-action kids' films I've ever seen. Once Matthew Broderick is turned into "Inspector Gadget," the film becomes very inventive with a lot of cool gadgets and a lot of neat things to see and hear (great movie for surround sound.)

Broderick is a likable hero and even Rupert Everett as the villain is, too, producing some laughs. There are enough adult-type jokes to clever material to make this fun for us older folks. I'd have to say this is one of the better efforts ever by the Disney company.

Broderick plays two roles, and is especially funny as the counterfeit Gadget with the fake teeth. The little girl in here is cute, too, and the talking car has some of the best lines of the film. At under 80 minutes, the film breezes by at good clip.

Good Movie
2008-08-24 - Mathew Brotheric is always a funny actor...good story and entertaining to watch with the whole family!

Good Family Movie
2007-11-14 - My 5 year old son loves this and watches it often. Some of the mild violence needs to be explained to him, but this allows for a good "life lesson" on being nice and unacceptable behavior. Very entertaining!