Based on UPA's cartoon of the same name, it was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and stars Leslie Nielsen as the title character, alongside Kelly Lynch, Matt Keeslar, Nick Chinlund, Stephen Tobolowsky, Ernie Hudson, Jennifer Garner and Malcolm McDowell.

Mr. Quincy Magoo, a wealthy but extremely near-sighted canned vegetable factory owner, goes to the museum to attend a party.

At the opera Mr. Magoo meets Luanne who pretends to be a magazine reporter and uncover FBI agent named Prunella Pagliachi.

Mr. Magoo disguises himself as Ortega Peru, a thief from Brazil who never goes anywhere and joins the auction which is taking place in a communal indoor pool.

The government arrests Austin and his friends while Mr. Magoo gives chase on an ironing board and winds up in the middle of a women's skiing competition.

Mr. Magoo steals the ruby from Ortega and finds himself being chased by Peru's men, the government agents and Luanne.

[6] Tong agreed to direct as he wanted to make a film that wasn't heavily reliant on violence and could be enjoyed by families and felt, as a Disney production, it would give him that opportunity.

The site's consensus states: "Leslie Nielsen's affability can't save this dunderheaded update of Mr. Magoo, which delivers a stream of slapstick gags so lame that audiences will feel like they've stepped on a rake.

"[8] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 18 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".

[10] Roger Ebert of The Chicago Sun-Times gave Mr. Magoo half a star out of four in his newspaper review, and called the film "transcendently bad.

"[11] Marc Savlov of the Austin Chronicle gave it 0 out of 5 and said "It's a mess best left to the nitrate ashes of forgotten film and television history.

The film received two nominations at the 1997 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards: Worst Resurrection of a TV Show and Most Painfully Unfunny Comedy, losing both to McHale's Navy and 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag, respectively.

[16] Disney wanted Mr. Magoo to become an "international franchise", but following the critical and commercial failure of the film, no sequels were ever produced.