Inspector Gadget 2
Tags: violence, comic

Plot synopsis:
Inspector Gadget (French Stewart) and his Gadgetmobile (voiced by D.L. Hughley) are having problems in their line of work, mostly because of Gadget's overzealous nature. At this time, Dr. Claw (Tony Martin) escapes from prison. Mayor Wilson (Sigrid Thornton) takes this opportunity to create G2 (Elaine Hendrix), a female Gadget-type robot that can function normally. Gadget begins to fall in love with G2.
Claw begins a new plan to steal gold from the United States Treasury. Gadget makes repeated attempts to stop Claw, but is continually foiled by his own bumbling and gadgetry glitches. Gadget's bumbling allows Dr. Claw's men to steal components for Claw's latest scheme and get away with it. Chief Quimby becomes increasingly frustrated and eventually fires Gadget, despite that Gadget had enough evidence from scientists to prove that it wasn't his fault. When Penny realizes that her uncle was fired and asks if there's anything she can do to help, Gadget tells her that she is still too young.
Penny decides to examine the evidence on her own and eventually finds Claw's hideout at an abandoned bowling factory. She infiltrates the hideout, but Claw captures her. At the gala, Gadget gets a job as a limo driver who opens doors for the guests. Inside the gala, Claw activates the laughing gas to keep the people busy as he steals a 50,000-karat ruby, however G2 was immune to the gas. In order to stop the robot, Claw uses a magnet to trap G2. Afterwards, Claw and his minions escape after Gadget fails to recognize him. After G2's failure, Quimby is ordered by Mayor Wilson to deactivate the robot and end the Gadget program.
Gadget goes to the police department to reactivate G2. Brain tells them that Claw has kidnapped Penny and has used the three stolen supplies (ionic fuel cells, a protoid laser, and a ruby) to build a super-weapon. Outside, Claw activates his machine, which was hidden in a truck. The weapon freezes time in Riverton, allowing Claw and his minions to easily rob the Federal Reserve. Both Gadgets manage to avoid the weapon's blast and find Claw and his minions at the Federal Reserve.
At the treasury, Claw orders his minions to attack Gadget and G2 so he can get away. Gadget and G2 decide to switch chips in order to make Gadget work perfectly, leaving G2 to deal with the glitches. Gadget chases after Claw, who is escaping in an ice cream truck, but Claw drops Penny off the truck with explosives attached to her so that Gadget has to go after her instead of stopping Claw. At the bridge, Gadget stops Claw's truck with a puddle of bubble gum. Claw's minions try to escape but get stuck in the smear of bubble gum and are arrested. When Gadget orders Claw to put his hand (and claw) up, Claw gets away in a rocket-like escape pod, proclaiming: "You may have won this round, but I'll get you next time, Gadget!"
The movie ends with both Gadgets being awarded their jobs back, as well as being honored at a ceremony for their heroic actions, by Mayor Wilson.

Review: Although IG2 is a bit sillier than the first movie, it's MUCH more faithful to the cartoon - once again Gadget says "wowsers!" (compared to "wowser" in the first one) and Dr. Claw (called both Claw and Dr. Claw) is faceless again.
Penny, although she has different hairstyles throughout the film, often wears her hair in her trademark pigtails of the cartoon.At first I thought that Elaine Hendrix would be awful as G2, but she proved me wrong.
Although French Stewart doesn't have the boyish charm of Matthew Broderick, he acts more like the Inspector Gadget of the cartoon.
(Such as a scene involving Gadget getting his head stuck in a toilet.)  Although the CGI wasn't as good as it could have been, it wasn't too awful.If you're looking for a film that's true to the cartoon, IG2 is definitely worth seeing.
that said it is just an avarage movie funny but too stupid and the lead actor French Stewart is bad but to be honest makes a better gadget them matthew broderick.
for exsmple in the cartoon you never see claws face and he always escapes...all in all so bits of this movie should have been in the first one and if they had it would have turned the first one into a better movie...
Yes, I accept it was more faithful than the brilliant cartoon show, but I still think it was a very poor sequel.The script was very very weak, and even lower in laughs than the first film.
Good thing Matthew Broderick didn't sign up for this movie cause then he would be completely humiliated and considered a bad actor.
I believe it had great acting (French Stewart was remarkably funny) and was alot more faithful to the TV series than the original IG.
The wacky fun is back in this Inspector Gadget, and i recommend it to anyone looking for a good, funny movie for their family..
Zamm also tries to create a Dr. Claw that is closer to the original  but the trouble occurs with the fact that the two share very little screen time and thus there is no real chemistry between the two.
There is no sense of individualism, just flimsy cause followed by an effect that could have been predicted before the opening credits ended."Inspector Gadget 2" has not seen the best reviews, nor will it get a good one from me  it tried, but ultimately it failed.
I thought the idea of "freezing-time" was a fun concept equal to what Claw would do, but again, we seemed to lack the spunk and originality of the cartoon.
I think it is bad enough that they couldn't even get Cheri Oteri back, cause, you know, she's expensive.Overall, I have to say that "Inspector Gadget 2" is a blunderment of a film, and the one star review that I am giving it is generous.
Zamm attempted to retain some of the originality of the cartoon, but couldn't compile a cast good enough to bring the humor, form, grace, and talent of the animated series to light.
If I had to end with a thought in mind, it would be this  Claw never showed his face, this can be learned from watching the pilot "Inspector Gadget" where he had a mustache, so you shouldn't be able to see his face in the films.
French Stewart takes over the title role from Matthew Broderick, who appeared in the original live action film.
It was ok, I liked the 1st one better, I never like it when they go and change the characters, theres just something wrong with that...and some of the deleted scences on the DVD should have been in the movie, it would have made more sense to me, plus alot of those scences included penny which she was a main character solving the crime (like usual if you think back to the cartoon) but they hardly show her enough working with brain, just one scene.
I had high expectations when I heard about IG2, but I was not disappointed.Okay, maybe some things weren't from the original cartoon (the Gadgetmobile talks again, and Chief Quimby doesn't have a moustache), but the film did stay true to the original cartoon series (which is now on DVD in Australia), from the hiding of Claw to the classic slapstick humour.
French Stewart (3rd Rock from the Sun) really brought Gadget to life, and Caitlin Wachs (Commander in Chief) was great as Penny.
We liked it a lot better than the first one and thought French Stewart sounded and acted a lot more like the cartoon Gadget.
For one thing they got the casting right in having French Stewart play Inspector Gadget.
With his comedic background and animation he does a heaps better interpretation than Matthew Broderick.It was good too see that it was filmed in Brisbane too and fun trying to pick out all the locations and see some of the best Aussie actors on the cast.The DVD has a heap of extras on it and is informative.
As for Caitlin Wachs versus Michelle Trachtenberg as Penny, I think the two are closely matched.And in nearly every way, Elaine Hendrix is unbeatable in the role of G2.Director Alex Zamm sought to bring the sequel closer in feel to the original series, and he achieves this with aplomb.
French Stewart does a much better job as Gadget, with just the right amount of seriousness AND silliness as Inspector Gadget.
All the original cartoon elements (Chief Quimby, Dr. Claw (looking as anonymously menacing as he should!), Penny, and Brain) are here, and G2 was actually a very good addition to the "Gadget family".
In this laugh-out-loud follow-up to the 1999 movie starring Matthew Broderick (Deck the Halls, Family Business), you get to witness the true example of an outstanding sequel.French Stewart (The New WKRP in Cincinnati, Home Alone 4) stars as Inspector Gadget, and I must say that he pulled off the role much better than Broderick.
His performance was downright wacky and entertaining - he captured the essence of the true Inspector Gadget character so well.It's sad that you don't see much of French Stewart in the movies these days.
Re-watching this in 2018 it still holds up as good imaginative storytelling with a loveable hero and maniacal villain.French Stuart is a wonderful Gadget and gives the role more justice than Broderick in the original.
I used to watch the Inspector Gadget Television show all of the time, and so going into the first movie I was hoping it would retain certain elements of the show.
However, that first movie changed so much (the most notable being the odd reworking of Dr. Claw) that it didn't feel like Inspector Gadget anymore.This movie, on the other hand, is excellent, because it discards trying to be in continuity with the first in order to be much more like the show.
At first I thought the inclusion of G2 would hamper the film, but her part is well integrated and this is still Gadget's movie.
I hate this movie so much with love.I love French Stewart,but I hate him in this.This film makes no sense what so ever.How did claw get old when this film takes place 4 years later.Why didn't penny get older.Why does the town look different.Why is Gadget still stupid when his glitches are fix.Why ask why.This is stupid.Too many question,none of the answers..
See "Inspector Gadget 2" and then see "R.L. Stine Presents: The Haunting Hours", and keep a good eye out for a 6-year-old main character.
That is what I found in the case of Inspector Gadget 2.What that tells me as a filmmaker, is this movie has really poor bump points, tension rise and a lackluster resolution.I was surprised to actually stumble across a second release of Inspector Gadget, which means I either saw it in the past and it was utterly forgettable, or it simply had such a low performance I didn't hear about it.With the first release, the vibe or groove was easy to find and enjoy it, regardless of whether I liked it or not.
With this sequel, it was pretty average all the way through the movie.One of the first things that came to mind watching Inspector gadget 2 is, "Here is another Inspector Gadget movie using an actor who for the most part is probably near the end of their career".Given the available choices, they probably made the next best possible casting choice for Inspector Gadget, since Matthew Broderick either didn't want it or wasn't asked to do it.
I may no like Carey as a person, but as an actor he is enormously talented for these character kinds of movies, more so than Johnny Depp who is who gets these Character casts here at the end of the 2010's.The introduction of G2 (Gadget 2) in a gender reversal roles for the sake of inclusion that so many movies have followed was not an entire shock, but as happens with most of such movies, it didn't work out to well.
This movie would get a MeToo fail from the HimToo side of the current culture, since G2 broke the platonic nature of a law enforcement career and violated the unsuspecting Inspector Gadget.Another aspect of this sequel I didn't enjoy was the presentation of "The Claw", which was handled 100% better in the original Inspector Gadget.Overall, it was a fair attempt by Disney to once again take an animated cherished cartoon and make a life acted version of it.What I would like to see from Disney however, is an extremely brilliant, well scripted animated cartoon version of Inspector Gadget based on the original character images, style and story - and not one of those 3D computer animated ripoff's that the Incredibles 2 is.
Some years later, Disney would release sequels to some of these movies and for the poorly adapted Inspector Gadget (1999), he too got his own.
When Dr. Claw (Tony Martin) escapes from prison, it's up to Inspector Gadget (French Stewart), his niece Penny (Caitlin Wachs) and newly activated member G2 (Elaine Hendrix) to bring the evil mastermind to justice.
Also there's no mention of whatever happened to Joely Fisher's role as Brenda who played Gadget's love interest in the first movie.
French Stuart as Gadget looks more like his cartoon counterpart than Matthew Broderick.
The overall product is still messy but some may like it more than the original film.Having its cast mainly replaced, the actors are a lot hammier, the comedy is still predictable and the effects do look somewhat cheaper.
However some of the writing does follow the cartoon more this time than the first movie and although not everything makes sense it feels more like an extended cartoon episode.
The first inspector gadget movie, ignored everything about the show and instead started its own thing.
Claw being hidden, penny solving the case, gadget being an idiot as usual ignoring the most obvious things, just like the cartoon.
This film just appeared shoddily made, and just looks like a budget price sequel compared to the first film which had Matt Broderick and Rupert Everett who frankly are in a different league to the acting in this film.In the first live action film, Gadget was genuine and well intentioned, but a complete bumbler.
I preferred the original, mainly because the characters were better, since the actors where just right, and i don't care if it wasn't as close to the cartoon, the elements from the cartoon that were changed made the film better (the gadget mobile had a wise-ass attitude which was great).
Like I said before, I think Matthew Broderick was loads better than the current Inspector Gadget and so was were all the rest they change (especially claw!) i have to say, see the first, its loads funnier..
In a review of the first Inspector Gadget film, I mentioned how Matthew Broderick was not a good fit for the lead.
This sequel makes the first Inspector Gadget look like it was written by William Shakespeare!.
as it fixes so many things (not everything I mean they kept that offensive gadget mobile, but heck he even interacted better with Stewart) the biggest is French Stewart, how anyone can prefer Brodrick's performance to him makes me wonder if they even liked the original cartoon at all as Stewart nailed the role.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a great movie that warrant's praise, but as an Inspector Gadget fan if I got this when I went to theaters I would have left less offended then I did..
The original Inspector Gadget movie stank.
When I first knew that French Stewart was playing Inspector Gadget, I thought, "great!".
The cartoon Inspector Gadget had the voice, quirkiness and Klutziness that French Stewart had in his character of Harry from Third Rock From The Sun. Whan I watched Third Rock From the Sun before this sequel of Inspector Gadget came out, I thought Harry sounded just like Inspector Gadget.
If he had only played his "Harry" character in Inspector Gadget 2, French Stewart could've been a good Inspector Gadget.
At the start of the movie, Inspector Gadget pulls a little old lady over for driving 25.3 in a 25 zone.
Tony Martin is great as Claw (at least for a cartoon), and the actors playing his minions also were funny.
in many ways,i thought this movie was not as good as the 1st.yes,it is truer to the animated show in many respects.in fact,id say it is too true to the cartoon.in this case,the cartoon does not translate too well into live action.in the 1st,they veered away from the cartoon quite a bit and that worked for me.in this movie, "Dr Claw" seemed way too over the top and not in a good way.the character sounded more stupid than anything.i think they tried too hard to make him seem evil and instead made him a caricature.the henchmen were dimwitted,just like the cartoon,but that seemed to work in this movie.most of the humour is of the type that young kids would find funny,but most adults probably wouldn't.as for the title character,i found he was was too idiotic(it worked in the cartoon,but not here),at 1st,but after awhile he became somewhat endearing.there are few things a liked about the movie.i liked the fact that Penny had a bigger role to play,and i also liked the fact that Gadget had some competition/decent romantic interest.overall,though,i didn't think this movie measured up to the original.though it had its moments.for me "Inspector Gadget 2" is a 6.5/10.
Worse movie but better gadget than the first..
The second installment of the Inspector Gadget film series is fairly comparable to the first movie.
Although this movie is stupider the fact that they picked a better gadget this time round was an improvement.
This ruined a good show and we will start off with characters a new female robot is in this film and gadget feels in love with her I mean what is Disney thinking like what ever happen to his ather girlfriend from first film and why is his boss young first he was this old man now he is this 40 year old bossie man who is just as worst as gadget now and gadget has be come this bossie no fun guy I mean what ever happen to him ever since the first film this has to be one of the worst movies of 2003 its almost as bad as son of the mask oh yeah that was bad that was really bad so if you where me I would say don't watch this movie its bad as it can get so don't get this movie out one its a big waste of time stick to the first one OK I would say the first one is better.
The CGI effects are terrible, many plot holes from the first film are unanswered and French Stewart fails to capture the same quality performance that Broderick achieved as Gadget.You can't fire me.
 Inspector Gadget (French Stewart).
There are 2 Inspector Gadget movies, the first one was made in 1999.
The movie has an entire different cast, and Dr Claw's face is hardly ever seen like in the cartoons Nice special effects too, with a cartoon-like "let's stop the bad guys" ending.
Why did they need to replace Inspector Gadget anyway, oh yeah, so they could at least have something to make a sequel about.
I found this film hilariously funny - and it actually conveys a sense of mystery - what did happen to Claw's face?
When Gadget cleaned the toilets and was thrown across the entire police station when his brush went erratic ranks amongst the funniest things I have ever seen - and that's up against some heavy competition.The film does contain some original ideas - to have a female Gadget who was a huge rival to Inspector Gadget was a very good idea, and the main premise for the movie.
It is fun trying to watch Inspector Gadget win her heart, and though there aren't any Oscar-worthy performances to be seen, there is some character in this film, and it is hugely funny.
This movie has restored my faith in Inspector Gadget.
This movie I have no complaints about it to a certain degree.Whoever thought Matthew broderick would have made a good gadget missed the point.
it would be worse than the film I was wrongThis is better , Because it's so much more like the original cartoon with things likeNot seeing claws face Gadget been more stupid and gullible Penny and brain and moreas well as been more like original its also a bit like the first film for new fansA must see for new and old fansPLEASE JUST GIVE IT A TRY.
However French Stewart does an awful job as Inspector Gadget.