Would Inspector Gadget work with a dark, gritty reboot?

Sure.

I mean ANYTHING could work with a dark and gritty reboot as long as it's done in a quality way and still has broad appeal. It's when you're indulging in the grittiness for the sake of grittiness, that's when you start fucking up.

Gadget Sins

You can make it victorian,steampunkish, low tech principles in that environment.

You can make it robocopish about him struggling to find his humanity inside a mechanical body.

You can.

But what's the pitch? Just edge?