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FilmPG1999
Inspector Gadget
Directed by David Kellogg
John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind… From TMDB
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Inspector Gadget is a 1999 action adventure comedy film, directed by David Kellogg, starring Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett and Joely Fisher.
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60 of 196 · most liked firstIn 1999, they made the infamously terrible Inspector Gadget movie. And childhood me loved it! Our video is now public, please share!! youtu.be/_Yn3WfKZoj0
positive · AI labelView post →The strange thing is that the director made Cool as Ice, Lusty Liasons 2, a Playboy thing, some commercials for Office Max, and then directed the 1999 Matthew Broderick Inspector Gadget Disney movie which had a budget of 90 million dollars. Like those are his movies. How did that happen?
neutral · AI labelView post →In 1999, they made the infamously terrible Inspector Gadget movie. And childhood me loved it! Watch us take a dive into the secondhand embarrassment on Patreon Early Access! www.patreon.com/cw/movienights
positive · AI labelView post →Alternate universe where everything is the same but instead of DUNE David Lynch directed a big budget INSPECTOR GADGET movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Now the director of Cool As Ice has also has an interesting career: he directed that movie, the Inspector Gadget with Matthew Broderick, and then a bunch of stuff for Playboy
neutral · AI labelView post →Go Go Childhood Embarrassment! @allisonpregler.bsky.social and @phelous.bsky.social revisit the infamous Disney Inspector Gadget movie that was hacked up in the edit, as they look back at the nostalgia, deleted scenes, and even extracts from the shooting script! Its more packed than the gadget suit!
neutral · AI labelView post →We need a movie about a resentful older Penny. I need to see the outcome of the Penny and Inspector Gadget dynamic.
neutral · AI labelView post →On Dec. 4, 1977, CBC aired an animated Christmas special called A Cosmic Christmas. This was one of the first productions by a Canadian studio that would bring us Inspector Gadget, The Edison Twins, Boba Fett and The Care Bears. Let's learn more about that film! 🧵1/10
neutral · AI labelView post →279) Matthew Broderick as Inspector Gadget in the Inspector Gadget movie directed by a guy who previously directed the Vanilla Ice movie and softcore pornography
neutral · AI labelView post →Friend from Pittsburgh sent me cool photos she took of the skyline and obviously my first instinct was to go “Yooo they filmed the Inspector Gadget movie there!!”
neutral · AI labelView post →As I discovered a few weeks ago on Bluesky, the director of this film did both Inspector Gadget and softcore pornography and the cinematographer is the legendary Janusz Kamiński who TWO YEARS LATER would shoot Schindler's List
neutral · AI labelView post →When it comes to reality biting, nothing beats buying a trench coat after watching an Alain Delon film, and being called Inspector Gadget
neutral · AI labelView post →"Radio Disney Jams Vol. 2" featuring "I'll Be Your Everything" by Youngstown from the hit movie "Inspector Gadget"
neutral · AI labelView post →Inspector Gadget on tap for Film Sack. Gonna get weird.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember in the 90s and 2000s when Disney put out a surprising amount of live-action adaptations of animated properties that weren’t from Disney’s own animation branch? Inspector Gadget and George of the Jungle even got DVD sequels, and Gadget has another LA film in the works.
neutral · AI labelView post →I still believe that a Lupin III / Inspector Gadget comedy movie would be stellar, on top of being a homage to Pink Jacket Lupin III, even in markets that either don't remember or never got Inspector Gadget (he's an inherently funny fellow)
neutral · AI labelView post →What was the first movie you saw in a theater? Mine was the 1999 live action Inspector Gadget movie. It is an awful movie, but as kid I loved it.
negative · AI labelView post →The ‘INSPECTOR GADGET’ film is reportedly moving forward at Disney. • Will Ferrell is in talks to star as Inspector Gadget. • Sean Anders (‘Daddy’s Home’, ‘Spirited’) is set to direct. (via Daniel RPK | www.patreon.com/posts/159756...)
neutral · AI labelView post →Random fact. Saw's design is based off that robot girl from the live action Inspector Gadget Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE - This week we’re taking Inspector Gadget 2 apart and putting her back together again in quite possibly the sloppiest direct-to-DVD movie ever made www.patreon.com/posts/157480...
neutral · AI labelView post →Apparently answering the question of "what did Hollywood use for crash cams before action cameras" is this shot in Inspector Gadget, which looks like it was filmed on a consumer VHS camera strapped to the front or something. The quality drop from the rest of the film footage is very noticeable.
neutral · AI labelView post →Why hasn't there been a Robocop vs. Inspector Gadget movie yet?
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, on one hand, I do NOT trust Daniel at all, BUT an Inspector Gadget film starring Will Ferrell is NOT a bad idea. Will is certainly a better fit than Matthew Broderick (no disrespect to Broderick as an actor, I love the guy).
positive · AI labelView post →the theory that IG dies and is born INTO the machine isn’t new. it’s the plot of the 1999 Matthew Broderick movie, Inspector Gadget (in 1987, Broderick had a car crash that killed two people. my graphic is blurred - but that’s no accident)
neutral · AI labelView post →The 1999 Inspector Gadget movie is fun as a feedist That fucking magazine cover… youngest billionaire at 20 and he’s just MASSIVE lol Then at the end of the movie he’s EXCITED to gain the weight back after what she said “Bring on the brownies! Wheel in the waffles! I’m ready to BINGE!”—Claw
neutral · AI labelView post →I was trying to figure out who Gavin Newsom reminded me of and I realized it's the Evil Inspector Gadget from the 1999 Matthew Broderick film.
neutral · AI labelView post →Could this be a sign that Disney’s Inspector Gadget reboot film is gonna start production soon? 👀
neutral · AI labelView post →LOST MEDIA FOUND. Concept artwork and promotional graphics for Disney's canceled animated property "Inspector Gadget: Completely Wired" has been discovered!
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know where they found film reels for Inspector Gadget--perhaps the TMS collaboration meant that they were saved at Tokyo Lab. I don't know how many of them exist. But basically this is an admission that, in SPITE of superior materials existing, WildBrain would rather go the cop-out route.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love how Saw movie endings always feel like Inspector Gadget episode endings, but with Dr. claw winning instead ... . #FrightClub #SawX
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched We are in the throes of #cyborgsummer but I had to break it up with some non-cyborg fare. Inspector Gadget is easily the worst and bleakest film here, which is really saying something when you consider that The Reef is SO BLEAK #Letterboxd
negative · AI labelView post →the first, and only, film I saw was 1999's live-action Inspector Gadget. didn't much care for it and I'm not dumb enough to put myself in the same predicament by watching another.
negative · AI labelView post →Remember when the all-chick Ghostbusters movie came out and everyone hated it? I'm watching it for the 1st time. Idk what people were going on about. I'M LOVING THIS! People worry too much about "legacy" and if something is "good." They forget to have fun. Reminds me of Inspector Gadget movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Kinda, for no good reason, want to watch Inspector Gadget. The cartoon though, not the movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Where's our big-screen animated Inspector Gadget movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →A photo of artist Michael Kirwan (left) with actor Rupert Everett (right) during Michael's visit to the movie set during filming of “Inspector Gadget” (1998). #MichaelKirwan #RupertEverett
neutral · AI labelView post →Mario movie 1 = Donkey Kong Mario movie 2 = Star Fox Mario movie 3 = Inspector Gadget?! C'mon Illumination - think of the comedic possibilities!
neutral · AI labelView post →It's the same reason why Nickelodeon never ran the Dennis the Menace cartoon even though they aired other DIC stalwarts like Inspector Gadget and Heathcliff. And yet, I think TPE is why MTV aired The Flintstones for a week when the movie came out. Syndication's weird as hell.
neutral · AI labelView post →Not a good movie but as a kid, I also did see Michelle Trachtenberg in Inspector Gadget. youtu.be/cVoXm5x_vv0?...
negative · AI labelView post →worst movie I’ve seen in a theatre? Where to fucking begin. The Inspector Gadget movie with Matthew Broderick? Multiplicity? The Stupids? Titan AE? and yet the answer is The Last Jedi
negative · AI labelView post →It’s a toss up between Wild Wild West & Inspector Gadget. Thankfully I didn’t have to pay to see them since I had just been hired at the local theater & was enjoying my free movie privileges
negative · AI labelView post →Wanna come over and watch a movie I got Kangaroo Jack (2003) Inspector Gadget (1999) The Flintstones (1994) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) X-Men 2 (2002)
neutral · AI labelView post →Hey wasn't the fully AI Inspector Gadget in the movie the bad guy?
neutral · AI labelView post →#AprilMovieChallenge Day 19 - movie based on an animated TV series Inspector Gadget (1999) #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →just realized another movie I knew Michelle Trachtenberg from. She played Penny in Pittsburgh’s finest film, Inspector Gadget (1999)
neutral · AI labelView post →Inspector Gadget 2 certainly is a movie but also this editing could probably kill you
negative · AI labelView post →So the English composer Thomas Tallis lived 1505- 1585, but in 1999 he composed the score for the Matthew Broderick “Inspector Gadget” movie, yeah seems right
neutral · AI labelView post →We already have an Inspector Gadget movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →He looks like the evil Inspector Gadget from the Matthew Broderick movie
neutral · AI labelView post →8) Inspector Gadget 2 GO GO GADGET PUT ON A BETTER MOVIE!
negative · AI labelView post →Inspector Gadget reboot movie where he ruthlessly guns down scores of petty criminals with the pistol from Robocop and finally right at the end of the movie he says “Go Go Gadget-“ and then it SLAMS to the Radiohead theme song credits before he finishes
positive · AI labelView post →Did it? He still had consistent film roles after this and has had a lot of success on the stage. He starred in The Producers two years after this. It's the director who went straight back to commercials and music videos after Inspector Gadget (which is still lucrative work, at least).
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s a toss-up between the live-action Inspector Gadget movie and Osmosis Jones, at both of which I distinctly remember getting scolded for asking if we could leave.
negative · AI labelView post →My kids have discovered the nineties movie version of Inspector Gadget with Matthew Broderick and I hadn’t previously realised it’s basically Robocop for kids
neutral · AI labelView post →RIP to the studio who gave us my childhood faves like: The Raccoons, The Care Bears Movie, The Devil and Daniel Mouse, The Get Along Gang, Inspector Gadget ... 🥲
neutral · AI labelView post →A friend recently put on the Inspector Gadget movie in a his discord, and I don't think I'm shocking anyone when I say that movie isn't good, but some of the shots are borderline experimental with how odd and perplexing they are.
negative · AI labelView post →Also claimed the left foot of a nearby squire via debris inadvertently catapulted by the explosion, a la Claw from the Inspector Gadget movie. That's not super connected, that just happened randomly.
neutral · AI labelView post →TIL the Youngstown song "I'll Be Your Everything" from the 1999 Inspector Gadget live action movie had the lyric "I can freak you with my gadget" which they had to change for the movie lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Gritty dark Inspector Gadget movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Reading that some disgruntled employees on the 1999 Inspector Gadget movie hid some messages in the newspaper headlines seen briefly onscreen.
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