Inspector Gadget 2
Inspector Gadget's journey began in 1983 when the merge between studios from France, Canada and US united their forces to create an animated television series about a funny and clumsy detective called Inspector Gadget. Built on the model of a clumsy super-hero more humanized, the Inspector is a fictive character part human, part bionic machine. Created by Andy Heyword, Jean Chalopin and Bruno Bianchi, the Inspector Gadget show originally ran between 1983 and 1986 and it was distributed worldwide, making it a successful cartoon.
Due to its success, in 1999 the Disney company transformed it into a live-action movie starring Mathew Broderick and Rupert Everett. Later on, in 2003 the Inspector Gadget sequel was released directly to VHS and DVD but none of the 1999's movie actors played anymore. The sequel is considered better than the original, as the first movie was poor in details and lacked that touch of comedy that is a major problem of almost all cartoon series which later became real actors movies.
References to the cartoon are many, so practically the real actors movie continues the same goofy line like the cartoon's episodes. Not far from its original cartoon roots is also IG's behavior, which shifts between his unprofessional, goofy way of acting and the fact that he always resolves the cases in the end, one way or another, with or without dumb luck or help from the others. Though, a difference is that, in the movie IG seems a lot more wise than he appeared in the cartoons and he can never seem to make his gadgets work well as they are supposed to in order to catch the bad guys. A lot of similarities between the original cartoon series and the IG 2 movie convey also from the way the main characters are described, seen or acted. Such share points are: Inspector Gadget's behavior, the fact that Dr. Claw takes after his Mad Cat always, unlike the first movie, or that Dr. Claw's figure is never to be seen except his mouth or in one scene one of his eyes.
The second movie also gives a romantic ending to the story between Inspector Gadget and Penny, so that after they reverse the effects of the laser prone to kill the humanity, the two characters fall in love. The ending scene includes a kiss and fireworks comming out of their hats and, of course, the always mad faces of the chief and the mayor.
During the decades the show was rolled, fans discovered similarities between the Inspector Gadget's clumsy behaviour and other characters such as Inspector Clouseau from the Pink Panther series. His stupidity always leads him into big trouble, but he always finds a way out thanks to his gadgets, Penny's unseen strings pulled or pure luck (most of the times).
