About this product: Spydra is at it again. Will the bionic boy triumph against her evil ways once more? Watch as he goes head to head with Spydra four times over in these exciting adventures from the creators of Inspector Gadget ! First Spydra steals the Mona Lisa and kidnaps the famous painter! Gadget Boy Agent Heather and G-9 combine efforts gadgets and some invisibility powder to rescue the painting in time for its unveiling. T hen Spydra convinces Spider aliens that earthlings are evil so she can rule the world. Our heroes must find a way to make the aliens understand that it s the other way around! Next that pesky Spydra devises a plan to turn celebrities and world experts into Super insects. Gadget Boy and friends must escape Spydra s Jurassic Insect amusement park and save Spydra s captives. The last straw is when Spydra has taken over the airwaves around the world. It s up to our heroes to cancel Spydravision for the good of humanity! Battling evil has never been so fun!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 843501000434 Manufacturer No: 100043
About this product: Go-Go Adventure! Go-Go Excitement! Go-Go Gadget! Fasten your seat beltsand get ready for super-charged fun! Inspector Gadget and his four-wheeled partner, Gadgetmobile, are all revved up for high-speed adventure/
Great Woolly Mammoth! The Archies are about to discover excitement, adventure and a real, live caveman!
About this product: Inspector Gadget was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid, and when I discovered episodes coming out on DVD, I had to pick it up. Before putting the DVD into the player, I reminded myself that some shows watched as a kid lose their fun twenty years later. I went in with this reservation, and watched it drop as I remembered all the fond memories of Penny, Brain, and of course Inspector Gadget.
On the DVD, I found the first five episodes of the show, and a nice little handful of special features. The first episode, "Winter Olympics" contains the rare Gadget moustache, and also a different voice for Penny, which didn't fit right. The next four episodes, "Monster Lake", "Down On The Farm", "Gadget At The Circus", and "The Amazon" are all typical Gadget fun.
The special features include an interview with Andy Heyward, one of the creators of Inspector Gadget. The interview gives some interesting insights into the making of Gadget, and answers several rumors that circulated around the show, such as are Dr. Claw and the good Inspector related? All the original public service announcements are included, and so are a bunch of sneak peeks into other shows from years ago coming onto DVD.
All in all, The Gadget Files, Volume 1 is a fun addition to any avid 80's cartooner, and fun for kids just being introduced to Inspector Gadget. I only wished there could have been more episodes packed onto this disc, but that is what Volume 2 is for!
About this product: DVD box set - 16 discs =From ancient pyramids to the modern American skyscraper, MODERN MARVELS®: ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS circles the globe to profile the worlds most phenomenal architectural gems. Vivid location footage and striking digital reenactments bring these mind-boggling engineering feats to life, while historians and architectural experts illuminate the construction, form, and function of each. Visit dozens of celebrated masterpiecesincluding the Great Wall of China and Mount Rushmoreand discover the thrilling histories that lurk behind the majestic facades.Celebrating imagination and invention brought to life on a grand scale, MODERN MARVELS: TECHNOLOGY illuminates the fascinating stories of the doers and dreamers who created everyday items, pioneered technological breakthroughs, and produced the most renowned man-made wonders. MODERN MARVELS goes beyond the nuts and bolts and into the hearts of these innovations and the minds of the geniuses behind them. From the history of the sugar industry to the longest bridge in the world to the worlds first atom bomb, the series elucidates the ingenuity that gave way to the revelatory inventions and engineering feats that are a part of modern-day life.
About this product: Phil is just your average teenager -- whose family crash-landed here from the year 2121. His adventures are out of this world, his futuristic gadgets are definitely outrageous, and his life is totally cool. So will he ever want to go back to the future? When Phil and his sister Pim are bothered by bullies, a dose of the "Invisi-Spray" makes their problems almost disappear. Next, Keely uses the "New-Ager" to see what she would look like at 25. But when a teacher mistakenly asks her out, Phil ages himself to play her older boyfriend and accidentally ages 60 years. Later, Phil thinks big when he gets small with the "Shrink Ray" to help Kelly overcome her stage fright. And in an all-new episode, a friend from the future (Orlando Brown, THAT'S SO RAVEN) offers the Diffys a ride home. But when Phil refuses to go along with his friend's pranks, will his friend blast off without them?
About this product: A cold war that's turning hot between the Empire and the Republic is the background against which we witness the acts of characters who are at the mercy of their leaders' whims, and interwoven among these events are hallucinations--some served up in good trips and some in bad--produced by an electromagnetic radiation device called Sensorama. Together these elements spin out a tale of high drama. It's finally here! A stunning non-stop, full-CG movie that blows away preconceptions.
About this product: Strictly for kids, this 1999 live-action feature version of the popular cartoon series seems long even at 80 minutes. As a video, it's easier to take and appreciate for what works best in the story: the special effects. Matthew Broderick plays the security guard who is physically transformed into a multi-use cyborg with a zillion attachments, from stilts to helicopter blades to skis. A crimefighter in raincoat and fedora, and equipped with a nifty Gadgetmobile, the hero investigates the death of a man linked to the villainous Sanford Scolex (Rupert Everett). Scolex, who blames Gadget for having to wear a prosthetic hand, develops an evil robot twin of the good inspector, causing much mischief and giving Broderick an opportunity to poke fun at his own performance of the virtuous Inspector. The action is shaky, the script plods along, and the effects soon take over; Everett has to go to the extremes of hamminess just to be seen above it. But children of a certain age will almost certainly engage with the more clever stuff and forgive the rest. --Tom Keogh
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