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List Price: $14.96 Our Price: $12.49 You Save: $2.47 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 01 July, 1987 DVD Release : 09 July, 2002 |
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Innerspace description Distractingly loose but clever, this 1987 comedy by Joe Dante (Gremlins, Matinee) stars Martin Short as a hypochondriac and Dennis Quaid as a miniaturized test pilot who is accidentally injected into him. Taking a page or two (or a hundred) from the classic science fiction movie Fantastic Voyage, Innerspace details the adven ... review details |
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| A splendid exercise in humourous shrinkage, as mite-sized test-pilot Tuck Pendleton, played by Dennis Quaid, ends up puttering around inside nervous ninny Jack Putter, who is portrayed Martin Short (not seeming quite as short in this film, naturally). Sealed up and shrunk inside an experimental pod and originally destined for the innards of a rabbit, things go wrong for itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny bellowing micro-dot-sized Tucky when thieves who specialize in boosting radical new high-tech goodies burst into the experimental lab where all the shrinkage is wrapping up, and chase a lone doctor who has the syringe with Tuck tucked in his lab coat all the way to a shopping mall. And it isn't long after that when Tuck is injected through Short's shorts (assuming he's wearing any) by a panting, dying doc, right into the fat cells of a Short behind.
For me this film works because of all the weird and completely unbelievable stuff that happens that has nothing to do with the shrinkage. I mean, that is some talented pod Tuck is tucked inside, puttering around Putter! Tuck can attach remotes to Putter's eye and ear, and see through silly Putter's eye, and be heard by silly Putter's ear. He can even turn up the volume on Putter's ear enough so that he can hear some Official-types talk about how expendable Putter and Tuck are, assuming they don't get Tuck out of Putter before he runs out of oxygen. And look: the onboard computer can adjust to mouse biology (Martin Short IS playing a mouse here, right?...okay, human biology), rather than the pre-planned rabbit schematics for the pre-planned rabbit test. And best of all!: if Putter has to, let's say, take the place of a shady buyer-and-seller of stolen shrink-tech, Tuck only has to hit a few buttons--and breeze quickly through the Instruction Manual--to alter Putter's face completely...though the procedure is obviously painful, and kind of sickening to look at. Best of all, Tuck can hitch a ride on a wet kiss between that putz Putter and Tuck's girlfriend Lydia (Meg "Legs" Ryan) and switch over to her body for a while (as long as he gets back over to Putter's body when the plot requires it). That's just what's going on inside Jack Putter. Then there's all the action as Jack and Lydia fight to get a stolen microchip back from the evil Mr. Scrimshaw (Kevin McCarthy), his various vicious goons, and the extra-strength vicious Mr. Igoe (big scary actor who's name I don't know), who ends up "Honey I shrunk the assassin"'d and put inside Putter to eliminate tuckered out Tuck. They need that chip so they can extract and enlarge Tuck...even though Lydia does seem to be falling for Putter, as he gets braver and braver, in a Heywood Broun/Fifty-First Dragon/"thinks he's drawing on Tuck's bravery, but it's really his own hidden power" kind of way. I love the inventiveness of this film; its daring commitment to take the plot anywhere just because they've shrunk a guy and stuck him in Martin Short. There are some great one-liners--including just a burp--super-duper especially-special FX (that's Special Effects shrunk), and no small or short roles, just small and Short actors, all at their best in this romp. If, by chance, you have not seen this film, micro-miniaturize--no wait, I mean microwave--the popcorn, and make a little headspace for Innerspace. Don't you want to see if maybe Dennis Quaid enlarges too early and splatters Martin Short all over everything? I make no promises, but if there's even the slightest chance of seeing that, don't you want to watch this movie? |
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