Innerspace

1987 "An adventure of incredible proportions."
6.8| 2h0m| PG| en| More Info
Released: 01 July 1987 Released
Producted By: Amblin Entertainment
Country: United States of America
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Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

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Predrag This movie was released in 1987... As a true testament to Spielberg and the great actors, this movie has aged very little. If it weren't for the very young Meg Ryan, Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Robert Picardo, you could say that this movie is a fairly recent release. In this regards, it is a typical 80's movie. You have the fallen hero (Dennis Quaid), his estranged love (Meg Ryan), and the fool that saves them both (Martin Short). There is also the usual dash of bad 80's clothing and techno rhythms. However, Innerspace is not really a typical 80's movie. Much of the plot is taken from the sci-fi classic, The Fantastic Voyage. However, Innerspace takes the idea from that movie to a whole new level. Not only that, but Innerspace is an action-comedy, with a little bit a romance tied it. Spielberg also did a great job making it timeless. The special effects are still good today and also remarkable.My Ratings: 9 out of 10.
SnoopyStyle Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) is a cocky military pilot bitter at being past over. His reporter girlfriend Lydia Maxwell (Meg Ryan) can't take it anymore and moves out. Tuck is crazy enough to take part in a miniaturization experiment. The process works but the lab is attacked. Lab worker Ozzie manages to take the syringe containing Tuck and inject it into hypochondriac Jack Putter (Martin Short) before Ozzie is killed by a henchman. Tuck connects to Jack but Jack thinks he's going crazy. Then the bad guys track down Jack. When they get back to the lab, they find out that the other computer chip needed to re-enlarge Tuck has been stolen. They set off to steal back the chip with Lydia's help.It's a wacky sci-fi comedy. Martin Short is doing his body bending best. He has a few good funny moments. Some of it is trying too hard to be wacky. It's strange that this is a high intensity thriller at one moment and a silly camp B-movie the next. Dennis Quaid is disadvantaged by being stuck by himself for most of the movie. There are good moments but it's a little uneven.
Jeff Wilson This was a fun movie, kept a good balance between sci-fi, action, fantasy and comedy. It had a lot of imagination. It was a little more lightweight than most of the movies I like, I could tell that's the way they wanted it in a scene where the bad guys take over a lab by spraying the doctors with tranquilizer gas instead of shooting them. That may be the reason it didn't do good at the box office, it was PG around the time the PG-13 rating was becoming more lucrative. The only thing I didn't like was the scientists being shrunk at the end, it seemed a little silly. The ending kind of leaves you hanging, the producers were probably hoping the film would do well enough for a sequel. Overall, not great but good if you're looking for interesting 80's film artifacts.
cultfilmfreaksdotcom THE RIGHT STUFF stud Dennis Quaid plays another cocky test pilot – this time he's transformed into a cell-sized explorer placed inside the body of Martin Short in this modernized FANTASTIC VOYAGE directed by Joe Dante, whose prior edgy thrillers like PIRANHA and THE HOWLING are only reminiscent in the lethal assassins that really mean business.Quaid was supposed to go inside a test rabbit but the experiment leader is hunted and killed, and after desperately injecting everyman Short, the chase is on. Meg Ryan is Quaid's journalist girlfriend aiding Short in the old school runaround action that, after characters are introduced (and others are shrunken to dwarfs), gets way too complicated for its own good.There are relatively few scenes inside the human body. Most of the film has Short providing physical comedy as Quaid roves around within. Although they hardly share screen together, both have great chemistry. And while Dante stock actors Robert Picardo and Kevin McCarthy are nice to have on board, there are too many cooks and the running time drags on thirty minutes too long.Yet Joe seems at home with the science aspect – especially the ten-minute setup to the initial human shrinking, which looks real and makes everything else seem legit.For More Reviews: www.cultfilmfreaks.com