Review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) by Jacob — 06 Jul 2015
Joe Johnston’s first film Honey I Shrunk the Kids shows his quality in visuals as well as his lacking in characters and story. The film presents uninteresting characters with cheesy dialogue that feels especially cheesy and dated 26 years later and isn’t helped given that its delivered by some poor child actors.
These flaws reveal the film as more of an effects/visual spectacle than a film, which makes sense given how that was what Johnston did a lot of before the film. Thankfully, the visuals are mostly strange and creative from the inventions to the design of the backyard although it never reaches the imagination promised in the intro.
The film isn’t terrible but nothing worth recommending. Its true place is on TV to watch when there is nothing on or on a plane ride. Thankfully, this wouldn’t be the norm with Johnston eventually going on to make good movies.
This review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) was written by Jacob on 06 Jul 2015.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids has generally received positive reviews.
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