A bumbling bionic police inspector stumbles about on his cases, while his niece and dog secretly do the real investigative work. Bumbling Inspector Gadget battles the forces of M.A.D. with the aid of the various gadgets he has on his person: pop-up rollerskates, extensible arms, a helicopter-hat, etc. Despite the arsenal at his disposal (which is just as likely to misfire as work properly), Gadget never seems to be able to catch Dr. Claw, the mastermind behind M.A.D. Quite often, in fact, any success that Gadget might have is often caused by his niece Penny and her dog, who Gadget consistently fails to recognize as working incognito on the case. When I was a child I use to love watching Inspector Gadget on the Television. Everything to entertain a child with comical humour, action and technology glued together with interesting and well written characters that a child could relate too. <br/><br/>What made the show appealing was the good music and animation along with futuristic technology and good story lines to fit in to the theme of the show about how a inept detective with gadgetry beats a sinister global organisation (MAD) without realising his niece Penny and her dog is doing all the work. The intelligent and remarkable character of Penny for a child viewing audience makes the audience relate to the programme to help her uncle Gadget who is there purely for Clouseau type humour which also made it fun. Apart from treating the audience with intelligence it was also educational in that it showed the audience in view of the show about world cultures were ever MAD was. <br/><br/>Although the formula was simple it worked when produced and was entertaining and exciting without the flash and commercial ostentation of other cartoons of the time but purely with the merit of writing and animation. The 1980s were a great time to be a child as there was no end of good entertainment and this is one of those cartoons that emphasis this. I just noticed that there is a movie coming out soon, about Inspector Gadget.First I thought, COOL (!), but then I got a bit worried.The cartoon from the 1980s was very funny and as a kid I used to watch it all the time, I thought it was one of the best cartoons around, with a catchy theme too (let´s hope they´ll keep that original theme in the movie).When I thought about who would be the perfect non-animated Inspector Gadget I came up with a few names : Jim Carrey, Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman or maybe Andy Garcia (…or maybe not, too serious).They have hired Matthew Broderick to play Inspector Gadget(!), let´s just hope they know what they are doing.Broderick hasn´t been very "good" in his latest movies (Godzilla for example, yuk!!).Well, I guess only when I have seen the movie I will know if he has even tried to make an effort to make the "perfect Gadget"
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