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Rated: PG; Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Sci-fi; With: Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everett
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By Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman
Owen Gleiberman is a film critic for EW

INSPECTOR GADGET (80 mins., PG) In this frenetic kiddie fable, Matthew Broderick plays a half-human, half-android crime fighter who can turn his limbs and digits into every imaginable gizmoid contraption. He's like a pop-up-book fusion of Edward Scissorhands, RoboCop, and a Swiss Army knife. The trouble is, 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. C-


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Posted Aug 06, 1999
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