Webster's dictionary defines the word travesty as, "a crude, distorted, or ridiculous representation (of something)." You couldn't sum up this truly awful movie any better.
I grew up watching the Inspector Gadget cartoon series in the 80s and sat down to watch this with my kids one night thinking it can't be that bad, right? For the next hour and a half, I watched the producers of this movie completely rape the original before beating it unconscious and leaving its remains lying in the gutter.
I'm not even going to bother listing the number of things that were wrong with this movie, the number of details they got wrong, the number of times I pointed at the TV and said "that's not how I remember it." It might have been slightly less gut-wrenching if they just gave it a new title and didn't pretend to base it on something the script-writers obviously never actually watched.
And to top it off, it starred the hilariously unfunny Matthew Broderick, who has been grating my last nerve ever since he played Ferris Bueller (and for some reason, I'm still the only person I know who hates that movie).
This was 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back and yet another example of just how low Disney can stoop. Avoid this travesty at all costs.
I grew up watching the Inspector Gadget cartoon series in the 80s and sat down to watch this with my kids one night thinking it can't be that bad, right? For the next hour and a half, I watched the producers of this movie completely rape the original before beating it unconscious and leaving its remains lying in the gutter.
I'm not even going to bother listing the number of things that were wrong with this movie, the number of details they got wrong, the number of times I pointed at the TV and said "that's not how I remember it." It might have been slightly less gut-wrenching if they just gave it a new title and didn't pretend to base it on something the script-writers obviously never actually watched.
And to top it off, it starred the hilariously unfunny Matthew Broderick, who has been grating my last nerve ever since he played Ferris Bueller (and for some reason, I'm still the only person I know who hates that movie).
This was 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back and yet another example of just how low Disney can stoop. Avoid this travesty at all costs.