I Watch Films: Inspector Gadget (1999)
Inspector Gadget (1999) John Brown is a security guard at the Bradford robotics lab who wants to be a policeman. Sanford Scolex, a rival roboticist, breaks into the lab with a robot tank to steal a robot foot. In the ensuing chaos Artemus Bradford is killed, Brown blown up, and Scolex loses his hand. Bradford remains dead but both Brown and Scolex are given cybernetic enhancements. Scolex gets a claw hand from his assistant Kramer and Brown is given a complete body filled with gadgets by Brenda Bradford, Artemus’s daughter, and installed into the police department under the Inspector Gadget program. Gadget, of course, is bumbling, makes mistakes, doesn’t use his gadgets well leading to chaotic slapstick scenes (this is based on a kid’s cartoon). Fortunately his niece Penny is bright and figures things out, pointing him in the right direction. Also he has a talking car that sometimes helps. Meanwhile some plot happens; Scolex tries to hire Brenda Bradford, but is turned down...
