Fun fact: claw was originally going to be played by Tim Curry in this movie

I love how the critic isn't mad about Broderick's performance in this film, he's astonished that someone could act this bad lol

Surprisingly, the Critic's transitions are better and less annoying than the movie… perhaps I shouldn't be surprised by that.

Yes. Simply through the will of heart. You know, that organ he doesn't have anymore.

Poor Matthew Broderick, people will always talk about how bad he was in Godzilla but never how good he was in Ferris Bueller's Day Off or The Cable Guy

My mom, a fan of the original show, hadn't seen this movie yet when it came on TV while we were flipping through channels. It's important to note that she's one of those people who likes to give even the worst of movies a chance and watch them all the way through. Even SHE couldn't stand this movie and stopped watching after 10 minutes.

They even screwed up Dr. Claw's final line, it should be: "I'll get you next time Gadget, next time!"

After seeing this, I feel ashamed to, as a 6-8 year old, loving this movie.

14:18 Oh my God... someone needs to do a fan edit of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS with goofy sound FX stat!

"Nooo!!!? I gotta get outta here?"

But seriously, WHY the sound effects? I don't recall the cartoon Gadget doing stupid sounds every time he moved. And still, in-universe, it makes no sense for them to put sounds on him. Just because it's based on a cartoon, doesn't mean you have to make everything ridiculous and senseless. The cartoon had silly moments, but it managed to make a lot more sense than this tripe.

OMG!!! "Brain is not here!!!"...Don Adams sighting confirmed guys!! They managed to get the Real Inspector Gadget into the end credits at least!!

I really liked this movie as a kid, but then again, I was a pretty stupid kid

Not gonna lie, whenever the doorbell sound effect is used when watching a movie I always go to the door xD

When will Mr Wiseau make a sequel to "The Room" so NC can review it.

The Minion Recovery Group during credits scene is probably the best part of the whole movie

Btw, actually in the show he's not supposed to be a cyborg. He's supposed to be inspector GADGET because he has gadgets. There's even one episode where he doesn't have his coat, so he can only use gadgets from his hat. Also even when they meet the professor in the show Penny says "he's the professor who gave you all your gadgets", she doesn't say turned you into a cyborg, and they never mention anything like that. Okay, he can stretch his neck and something like that, but still, it's never explained if he is an actual cyborg, and if so to what degree. The point is that it shouldn't be the focus of the plot, 'cause it's never explained in the show and it should be left that way, it's a mystery. The premise is the adventures of this detective full of gadgets and that's it. If you want to give us some backstory okay, but the show was never like that.

Ouch, "Silence of the lambs" with sound-effects got me this time! XD

The Star Wars clip at 6:15 works on another level...the lady who plays Brenda in this movie is Carrie Fisher's sister. I guess they both can't help but get into wacky hijinks with gullible cyborgs! Anyway, Critic's hatred for Matthew Broderick is easily one of his best gags...

I want to see Nostalgia Critic's segway be an intro to a TV show.

when is he going to do Inspector Gadget 2???????

Notice how in all the movies about 90s cartoons were always about the origins of the story/characters? The third Scooby doo movie was about how Shaggy got scooby and how the gang got together Powerpuff girls movie was about how the professor made the powerpuff girls Inspector Gadget movie is about how he got his 'powers' The Flintstones was very early on since it had Barney and Betty adopting bam bam Couldn't hollywood think of better ideas for movies other than how it all began?

07:12 - 07:13 Who should have directed this movie. 07:15 Who shouldn't have directed this movie, but he was hired anyway.

I remember advertising for this movie was all over the place when I was a kid. McDonald's gimmick was giving out toys that were part of Gadget's robotic body so kids would keep getting Happy Meals to get all the parts. My brother and I managed to get them all and build a full Gadget. What suckers we were.

I really loved the part where the Japanese man says, "This is why I left Tokyo" during the evil robot attack. That plus the minion recovery scene is pretty funny if you recognize anybody.

Am I the only one who watched this movie as a kid without knowing there was an animated tv show existing?

Since a clip of Star Wars was shown, the woman who played Brenda in Inspector Gadget happened to be a much younger sister of Carrie Fisher (who I don't have to explain). Joely Fisher is her name.

AMC wanted Matthew Broderick to be Walter White. Just let that sink in.

Nostalgia Critic really does think that Matthew Broderick is a bad actor. He has been in a few really crappy movies (Godzilla and Inspector Gadget), but that doesn't make him a bad actor. He has given good performances in films like War Games and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

I just realized... most of the time Doug''s main complaint is "That has already been done, be more original", but when adaptations try to put their own spin on things his complaint is "You are too original, try doing exactly what the cartoon did."

See, this is why I don't watch movies based on things I loved as a child. "Inspector Gadget" (who was originally voiced by Don Adams) was also a nod to his most famous TV character, "Agent 86" on the most awesome of nostalgic TV Shows, _Get Smart_. "Penny" was basically like his "99"; The woman who was often to the side-lines, but obviously superior to him...saving the day but not really getting the credit she deserved. From what I can tell, the film did NOT stay faithful to the source material in this regard. It's especially unfortunate given that Michelle Trachtenberg is a far more talented actor than Mathew Broderick (See her performance as "Georgina Sparks" on _Gossip Girl_ if you don't believe me), and could have easily been the "Penny/99" character she SHOULD have been. I watched both _Get Smart_ and _Inspector Gadget_ religiously as a kid (They used to run _Get Smart_ on Saturday afternoon free-to-air back then). When I found out that Don Adams voiced "Inspector Gadget" the parallels between the shows were so obvious that even my primary-school aged mind could comprehend them. The saddest part about this is that Don Adams actually did the voice cameo for "Brain" in the end credits of this movie. That is one little factoid I wish I hadn't googled. *R.I.P. Don Adams:* I will always remember you for _Get Smart_ and the animated _Inspector Gadget_ series and how much I enjoyed watching them. You were a great actor with amazing comedic timing, who did a brilliant job of stepping into the subversive comedic role where the "macho male hero saves the day" trope gets turned on its head, but only the audience seemed to notice. I, like many others, were great fans of your work...even if it was produced decades before we were born. You'll be sorely missed.

I was dying when he said he looked the same dead as alive and the Slapstick, dhuuhhh?, Idiot part

I think its funny you said Dr. Claw killed Madonnas carreer and he actually referenced her in the film

I kinda liked the guy who played IG. He did a good preformance in Ferris Beuler's Day Off.

Did anyone else notice that mr. T was in the minion recovery group at the end?

Did you know? There's a official Dr. Claw toy which shows his face

You know what this movie needed? A drug factory raid. With Red Forman.

I definetly agree with Doug at 07:10. As a kid, I imagined Dr.Claw looking very villainous (my brother though thought he only was an arm stuck on a chair because of the intro to the show). I never saw this movie but I did watch the sequel and Dr.Claw in that film looked also pretty far from my imagination, but his look made at least more sense than this version.

I do believe that any movie I liked as a child was, by far, a piece of shit. Ugh.

...And the city is called Riverton in the movies, unlike the cartoon, where it is called Metro City.

I once read that Steven Spielberg wanted to write and direct Inspector Gadget. I can only imagine how badass it would've been had he done it

Matthew Broderick was fine in Ferris Bueller

The transition at 0:49 feels like a contemporary sitcom.

This is one of these movies that I hated even as a kid - and my favourite TV show back then were Power Rangers, so you can tell my standarts were really low.

" He hasn't even said anything and already I hate him" Says this right after he says "Morning".

I've seen it a million times yet i burst out laughing every goddamn time he does that matthew brodderick acting impression, easily one of my fav NC jokes of all time

"Go-go Gadget Prophylactic!" "Um... Uncle Gadget?" "Don't worry, Penny. I know just what I'm doing!" "I'm doomed."

Damn... this used to be my favourite movie when I was young.

They must have not watched Inspector Gadget the original series

If I would've made Inspector Gadget, I would have focused it on Gadget's trauma of being turned into a cyborg(also, his gadgets would be effective Bond-type stuff). There could be a revelation that Claw and Gadget were friends who suffered in the SAME accident(Claw is cybernetic too, but on a much larger scale) and were taken in and 'altered' by different people. As the years went by, Gadget ended up being a force for good whilst Claw became a bitter maniac. I'm a 16-year old who knows jack squat about filmmaking so don't flame me.

Steve Carell would be a better Gadget and Ron Pearlman would be a better Dr. Claw

Is Scolex/claw lord Farquad from shrek?

To hell with you Nostalgia Critic, I rented this movie over 30 times when I was little! I loved it, acting talent be damned!

13:59 Best sound effect use ever :)

"Two years of a security guard is enough to be a cop." Or you could take the civil service exam and pass a physical?

Mathew Broderick didn't act well in this, but he does have roles where he did act well (Lion King, Ferris Bueller)

*monster voice THATS A LOT OF FIIIIISSH... Lol

Ah fuck another movie I watched as a kid that the Nostalgia Critic hates. Makes me feel stupid that I watched that movie. Wonder what he thought of the sequel.

Everytime i hear that voice: 0:38 I imagine: Shadow, stop at once.

What if the car was voiced by slippy toad from star fox

Father... I have a confession to make for I have sinned.... I like Matthew Broderick as an actor....

Whenever Monty Python, Space Balls, Deadpool and Pinkie Pie do a better job at fourth wall jokes than Inspector Gadget, you know that's a bad sign for Inspector Gadget.

When he put Penny's Face on Young Bruce Wayne I lost my shit!! Especially the Cartoon sound effects on the Silence of the Lambs while the F.B.I agent was talking to Hannibal Lecter! Crying in Laughter!

The movie version of _Inspector Gadget_ was a masterpiece fail in cinema. Seriously, the _Inspector Gadget_ show is not that hard to adapt, or improve for that matter! Each episode follows a pattern so rigidly it gets old after you're one quarter through! Obviously, a little twist to the pattern won't kill it. At the same time, this rigid pattern provides an outline for the overall makeup of anything _Inspector Gadget_ to follow. And yet, abiding by the pattern and yet screwing with it, and making something great, is not hard to do. The _Inspector Gadget_ movie was somehow capable of taking something that's rather overrated and making it flat-out _terrible_. How? Just how do you do that?!

My god, silence of the lambs with random cartoon sound effects had me dieing of laughter.. This movie really IS on to something!

19:17 - See, even pre-return NC had skits, though not nearly as much and as long...

Would you believe that this crappy film actually got a sequel? What lunatic actually thought that was a good idea?! F*cking early 2000's and it's absolute shit comedy

Go Go Gadget Cash grab!

I don't know about anybody else, but that nut-grabbing scene scared the living piss out of me as a kid. I don't know why

Hey that Segway works in Austin Powers

I'm just saying this, but after hearing James Spader's voice as Ultron in the 'Avengers 2' trailers, I think he'd be perfect to play Dr. Claw if they ever do a new 'Inspector Gadget' movie; he'd make Claw more menacing.

I always thought Claw was a cyborg like Gadget.

But he was good in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, right?

Tuckermobile, away!

I actually preferred the second Inspector Gadget movie over the first. French Stewart really did the role justice in my opinion.

10:13 the auto captions say witthout this shit you cant function. Doctor of the century

Now Critic should get around to review _Inspector_ _Gadget_ _2_, which had French Stewart as Gadget, and, unlike this film, Claw's face is *_never_* shown.

10:50 I feel like that scene is missing a certain..................logo.

"I think somebody's been watching too many Saturday morning cartoons." I think somebody's been watching too many Pinkie Pie. Yeah, I said it, what's up? Come at me, Bronies!

Wait a minute... They seriously reached out to Don Adams (the original voice of Inspector Gadget)... AND THEY CAST HIM AS BRAIN. AND GAVE HIM ONE LINE. WTF?

Little bit of trivia. The voice of Dr Claw was done by the guy who did Soundwave in Transformers.

Regarding the "oil slick" scene, there were plenty of moments in the show where Gadget's gadgets would malfunction. The fact that toothpaste comes out instead of oil is probably an homage to such moments, probably the one thing they actually got right.

We need an unnecessarily gritty and violent remake of this. I imagine it as a cross between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and The Man of Steel.

I remember having this movie on VHS when I was a little kid and I always thought it was a bootleg or something because of that "yahoo" sound bite.

I always imagined Dr. Claw looked like a Bond villain, mainly Blofeld, but also Alec Trevelyan or Jaws (with his whole lower jaw made of metal, which could explain his voice). But definitely not like a rejected "Mad Men" character with an oversized pliers for a hand.

"he seems more like Dr. Claw's henchmen," no he is more like his secret cabana-boy.

I love the Critic's transitions.

It's strange that he didn't made cuts at the credits of HIS video to resemble the random cuts from the movie's credits... But I can't complain :D

Those scenes that keep popping up in the end credits in some movies is really annoying, they even did it in despicable me 2, and couldn't tell if it was over or not...

What people fail to realize is that even though Inspector Gadget 2 was a bad movie, it at least followed the cartoon a hell of a lot better than that crappy first film.

I love how he introduces Broderick as the guy from Godzilla instead of Ferris Bueller.

3:34 You mean, like actual limbs...? When moving, you don't think, "Okay, time to move my left leg. So I lift this ligament first, tighten these muscles..." You just do it. There's no "thought" behind it, you just will it to move and it does.

When I was little I really wanted one of the end credit scenes to cut to the REAL Dr. Claw, hidden, berating this movie's villain who was just taking the fall for the real criminal mastermind.

I have to be honest, I like this movie, but its the first time I'd seen anything Inspector Gadget so that's why. Also I like Matthew Broderick.

the austin powers transitions were a nice touch and well editted, i'm glad to say they got quite a laugh out of me

I kinda like the talking car. Don't kill me.

Don't you EVER touch a black cars radio.

It's hard for me to imagine Inspector Gadget being from the 80s. I think it's because they kept showing reruns through a good chunk of the 90s. Which honestly happened with a lot of cartoons. Hell, they still show some of those cartoons today. (Which is great honestly, those shows were better than most cartoons nowadays, with the exception of a few obviously. Steven Universe is my current obsession.) I also quite like how they didn't even get Claw's ending line right. "I'll get you next time Gadget. I'll get you!". Like...REALLY? You COULDN'T even get the line correct? You got it HALF right, what the fuck? I honestly think they were just trying to be as wrong as they could. Also, with the recent obsession with Nostalgia and "retro" games. I'm kinda surprised they haven't given Mario another try for a movie. Honestly, I enjoyed the hell out of the original Mario Bros movie, mostly because it was Mario related and nostalgia, but still. I'd love to see them at least TRY a more accurate version. I could see them screwing it up horribly by trying to fit EVERY Mario related thing into a single movie. But if they made multiple movies, but kept them focused a bit better, they could be pretty good.

Also lets forget for a moment that the doctor claw in the series is the original inspector gadget.

Funny to think Broderick voiced Simba...