A Good Source of Holiday JEERS!

This was EXTREME-ly doofy.

Well, it didn't win the Worst Excuse for Family Entertainment award as I was hoping it would, losing out to RV.

Here's what Inspector Gadget should have been nominated:

Worst Picture

Worst Director: David Kellogg

Worst Actor: Matthew Broderick

Worst Actress: Joely Fisher

Worst Supporting Actor: Rupert Everett

Worst Supporting Actor: Andy Dick

Worst Screen Couple: Matthew Broderick and either Joely Fisher or the Gadgetmobile

Worst Screenplay

My mistake. 

Agreed.  It's hard to believe the the same DiC creative team that brought the world the show could support a script like that (but since this is also the same DiC team that thought the laughable Corporal Capeman would be an interesting addition to the show, it might not be that much of a stretch).  Two major reasons the series worked that they casually tossed out the window (not including the decision not to even try to go at the self-destructing assignments that were among the best parts of the show) was A) Gadget's well-defined personality, being firmly and egotistically to an extent convinced he's a great crimefighter even though he never has a clue what's going on around him and B) the fact little backstory was ever explained made it better to watch, for it signaled they trusted the viewers' intelligence enough to draw their own conclusions on several things.  Additionally, Frank Welker's Claw is a dangerous villain, perhaps one of the most dangerous in a mainstream cartoon.  Even if Standards and Practices would still limit his activities to mainly theft and prohibit guns, that still doesn't stop him from from attempting to take characters' lives with just about every other weapon in the book.  Whereas you can never believe Rupert Holmes can do anything really bad, and that kills them. 

Makes you wonder:  Ed Rooney's famous vow was "Fifteen years from now when he looks back over the ruin his life's become..."  So actually in regards to Broderick's career that turned out pretty accurate to when his slide really began (not that Jeffrey Jones has that much positive to say about his own career right now, mind you). 

Matthew Broderick hasn't done a lot of good films lately. He was really good in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Glory. I guess in the late '90's, he started to go downhill a bit...

So, why is Hollywood now choosing to do such lousy Christmas movies? Of course, what I hate about these Christmas movies is that they don't come out on DVD until the Christmas holidays return a full year later.