Inspector Gadget Critic Reviews
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While it is a spectacle of animatronics, digital graphics and other special effects, the actors are never overwhelmed by them as personalities.Read the full review
The movie, based on the TV cartoon series, is exceptionally pleasant, and there's just enough humor to make it enjoyable for adults.Read the full review
The image of this kitchen-magician dream robot comes at us in little jolts and spasms that have the zappy, self-contained rhythm of a fast-food tie-in commercial.Read the full review
The plot was an arbitrary concoction.Read the full review
Gadget instead ends up as another mindless, noisy thrill ride that gorges its audience on bright effects and leaves it queasy from overconsumption.Read the full review
In the end the elaborate gimmickry of Inspector Gadget cannot conceal its very ordinary storytelling.Read the full review
Disney has struck once again, taking a passably entertaining cartoon and turning it into a motion picture so lifeless that it's almost unwatchable.Read the full review
Anyone older than eight is likely to find it a ridiculously extravagant exercise in stupidity.Read the full review
A new standard for wretched excess is established by Inspector Gadget, a joyless and charmless disaster in which state-of-the-art special effects are squandered on pain-in-the-backside folly.Read the full review