I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot ...
I enjoy writing about all sorts really. I love travel and am pregnant at the moment so expect a lot of baby reviews to come. I also post on Dooyoo under the name Whizz11
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This film has all the key ingredients of a great kids movie, mad cap inventor, kids seeking adventure and a new world full of fun and exciting new challenges.
Honey I Shrunk the Kids is one of my favourite movies from when I was a kid. In my opinion, it’s not a classic like Back to the Future or The Goonies is for me but it is still fairly high on my list. The film was actually released in 1989, wow, that’s 20 years ago now.
Wayne Szalinski is a crazy inventor whos creations don’t always work out as well as he hopes. His machines generally always fail halfway but he is still convinced that he can make a product that actually works. Wayne invents a machine that can shrink objects to one percent of their original size. A freak accident with the machine and a baseball causes the machine to switch on when Wayne is not there and in the path of Wayne’s two children Amy and Nick and the neighbourhood kids next door.
Then the adventure starts for the kids!! They find themselves in the backgarden which for their size is more like a huge field with danger at every turn. They have to fight off ants, scorpions and lawnmowers which they do spectacularly well. I think it actually looked like really good fun, apart from the danger part of course. All these things are huge and it must be like being Alice in Wonderland discovering a whole new world when you are that size. Of course they come across some exciting things too. They find a cookie in the back garden with cream filling and of course to them it is huge so they can eat away to their hearts content. I haven’t watched the film for a while but I do remember the computer graphics being quite good to depict all these unreal scenes. They did feel real to me and made you think that they were actually that small.
The rest of the movie pretty much shows the rest of their adventures and show you whether they make it home and back to full size or not!!
Wayne is played by Rick Moranis who was also a big character in the Ghostbuster films. I think he was perfect for this role as he has quite a weird look anyway and a bit of a funny way about him so he fits the mad cap inventor very well. Apparently, according to an article I read, in 1996-1997, Moranis announced that because he had other obstacles in his life, he would retire from acting, though he occasionally does voice-over work. That would explain why I haven’t seen him in anything for a long while.
I thought all the kids were good in this, they had a very 80’s style about them but I thought they worked well together and brought at the best in each other. Two of the characters at first hate each other but they figure out they have a big of a crush on each other and as a girl of the same age watching this movie for the first time I thought it was quite sweet and something I probably would have liked to happen to me in my adolescent years! It’s quite interesting to note that some of the kids have now retired from acting and are not in the business at all and the rest have not really had much to do in the industry since the film came out. It’s strange when you note that most other kids films of that generation have given us kid actors such as the ones from the Goonies, Stand By Me, etc.
Of note there is a cinema 3-D attraction at Disneyland in California called Honey I shrunk the Audience based on the movie. It stars the same actors and they do a little show where Wayne shrinks us, the audience with his machine and then has to change us back. It’s a really good show and well worth a visit if you ever find yourself at Disneyland.
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