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The Gadgetmobile also has poor lip sync. The Gadgetmobile is changed from a silent car, which morphs into a sports fastback and van in the cartoon, into an annoying comic relief character in the movie. Like Garfield: The Movie, Brain was played by a live dog, rather than being animated in 2D or CGI. Penny has brown hair instead of blonde hair and barely helps Gadget. Wait, shouldn't "Claw" already be his last name, because according to the cartoon, his real name is George Claw? Well, in this movie, his real name is Sanford Scolex, why not just rename himself Dr. Claw has a robot claw on his hand in this movie, after he gets it, he renames himself "Claw". Plus, his frighteningly deep voice from the cartoons has been replaced with a snooty, British accent (although his actor, Rupert Everett, was British himself). Claw, shows his face, but in the cartoons it was never revealed. Claw, Penny, Brain, and The Gadgetmobile behave nothing like their cartoon counterparts. Very poor grasp of the original source material. Over forty minutes were cut from the film, which explains the bad editing. For example, in one scene there's a crook trying to escape, only for him to run and get captured in less than a second. Why It Isn't the Greatest Film Ever Assembled Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John - along with his niece, Penny (Michelle Trachtenberg), and her trusty dog, Brain - uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda (Joely Fisher), a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. John Brown (Matthew Broderick) is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. 2 Why It Isn't the Greatest Film Ever Assembled. It was followed by the 2003 direct-to-video stand-alone sequel Inspector Gadget 2. This film was dedicated to the memory of production designer Michael White who died on Januin Los Angeles during production of the film at the age of 36. This was the last film produced by Caravan Pictures before it was absorbed into Spyglass Entertainment. It was filmed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Los Angeles, California, with the ice castle-like main tower of Pittsburgh's PPG Place playing a central role. The film was produced by Caravan Pictures and DIC Entertainment (which was owned by The Walt Disney Company at the time of production) and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. The film tells the story of how Inspector Gadget and Dr. Brenda Bradford (played by Joely Fisher), Mayor Wilson (played by Cheri Oteri) and the Gadgetmobile (voiced by D. Three new characters were introduced, Dr. Claw, Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, and Dabney Coleman as Chief Quimby. It starred Matthew Broderick as the title character, along with Rupert Everett as Dr.
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Inspector Gadget is a 1999 American action-comedy film loosely based on the 1983 animated cartoon series of the same name. And this is one of the main reasons why Disney owning DiC is a bad idea.