Review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) by Shane Z — 27 Nov 2014
The film tells the story of Wayne Szlinski (Rick Moranis), a wacky inventor spending all day and night in the attic working on his new nutty and ridiculous invention being the shrink ray. He tries to get it to work but it just blows up apples. The story gets going when one of the neighbor kids hit a baseball in the attic window causing the shrink machine to work, which ends up shrinking Moranis's kids, Nick & Amy (Robert Oliveri & Amy O'Neal) and two neighborhood kids, Ron & Russ Jr. (Jared Rushton & Thomas Brown Wilson), to an approximate height of 1/4 tall accidentally. And getting tossed in the backyard by the garbage. Now it's become a adventure to get their parents attention to get back to normal size.
The film is filled with exciting high proportions: The backyard is like a jungle to them - the blazing grass look like palm trees - a friendly realistic ant - Mornais circling around the backyard FAST - and two of the kids take off on a bee (the scene always freaked and scared me as a kid). "Honey I Shrunk the Kids" is a tad dated and too silly at times but still is excitingly fun (times change)!
Note: The movie promoted a short cartoon for Who Framed Roger Rabbit called 'Tummy Trouble ' about baby Hermit swallowed a rattle. Very silly short cartoon!
This review of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) was written by Shane Z on 27 Nov 2014.
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids has generally received positive reviews.
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