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Inspector Gadget
MEANRANK
40/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5793
- IMDb #5787
- Rotten Tomatoes #5048
- Metacritic #4943
- Letterboxd #5678
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5120
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #5113
- Metacritic Critics #4499
- Metacritic Audience #5026
- Douban #2251
- Kinopoisk #5449
- AlloCiné #5615
- Trakt #5145
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 19, highest is Douban on 64. Critics average 28, everyone else 43.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art gadgets and tools. Named "Inspector Gadget" by the press, John -- along with his niece, Penny, and her trusty dog, Brain -- uses his new powers to discover who was behind the explosion.
Details
- Director
- David Kellogg
- Writers
- Dana Olsen, Kerry Ehrin, Zak Penn
- Released
- 23 July 1999
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 78 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $75.0M
- Box office
- $134.4M
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