The stage curtains open ...
"Jack ... it worked. You just digested the bad guy." (Jack burps)
"InnerSpace" (1987) was the first movie I ever saw Martin Short in, even though he had just done "Three Amigos" the year previous. And even though Meg Ryan was in "Top Gun", this was the first movie that she really came to my consciousness as well. Now, Dennis Quaid I was familiar with. I had remembered him from both "Jaws 3-D" and "Dreamscape" (of all movies), so I had at least one familiar face to help me through this action/comedy directed by Joe Dante back when it came out in 1987.
Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Quaid), a Navy aviator who has a penchant for the bottle and finding trouble, has volunteered to participate in a highly classified miniaturization experiment in which he shrinks down to a fraction of his original size with the intention of being injected into a laboratory rabbit inside a mini-pod. At the time of the transfer, however, the laboratory is raided by a rival organization who wants the technology for themselves. One of the scientists grabs the syringe that Pendleton is inside of and escapes. He makes his way to the local mall where Jack Putter, an assistant manager at a Safeway store, is finalizing his vacation/travel arrangements to get away from it all ... to relax and have absolutely NO excitement, or he could suffer a nervous breakdown. It isn't to be in the cards for Jack when the scientist, as his last living act, injects an unsuspecting Pendleton into Jack and then dies. That's when the REAL fun starts.
The first 10 minutes of the movie were actually fairly boring, and I was beginning to think I was in for a real dud. But then, things really picked up and it delivers from there on out. To me, this movie was sort of a "Fantastic Voyage" meets "All of Me". The antics and situations that come about as a result of a science experiment gone wrong were pretty zany, over-the-top, and in some parts, just kind of weird. "InnerSpace" is definitely a movie where you have to suspend disbelief, or you won't get any pleasure out of it. Dennis Quaid said it best when he said of this film, "Leave your brain at home and you'll have a good time".
This was the movie where Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan first met. They would go on to star in additional films together, and become married during the years of 1991 to 2001. All in all, this was an entertaining movie with some silly parts, but you can't help but smile and laugh along the way. I've seen it a couple of times since my first viewing of it, and it holds up fairly well, even today. I recommend it at 7 stars out of 10. This is a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
"Jack ... it worked. You just digested the bad guy." (Jack burps)
"InnerSpace" (1987) was the first movie I ever saw Martin Short in, even though he had just done "Three Amigos" the year previous. And even though Meg Ryan was in "Top Gun", this was the first movie that she really came to my consciousness as well. Now, Dennis Quaid I was familiar with. I had remembered him from both "Jaws 3-D" and "Dreamscape" (of all movies), so I had at least one familiar face to help me through this action/comedy directed by Joe Dante back when it came out in 1987.
Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Quaid), a Navy aviator who has a penchant for the bottle and finding trouble, has volunteered to participate in a highly classified miniaturization experiment in which he shrinks down to a fraction of his original size with the intention of being injected into a laboratory rabbit inside a mini-pod. At the time of the transfer, however, the laboratory is raided by a rival organization who wants the technology for themselves. One of the scientists grabs the syringe that Pendleton is inside of and escapes. He makes his way to the local mall where Jack Putter, an assistant manager at a Safeway store, is finalizing his vacation/travel arrangements to get away from it all ... to relax and have absolutely NO excitement, or he could suffer a nervous breakdown. It isn't to be in the cards for Jack when the scientist, as his last living act, injects an unsuspecting Pendleton into Jack and then dies. That's when the REAL fun starts.
The first 10 minutes of the movie were actually fairly boring, and I was beginning to think I was in for a real dud. But then, things really picked up and it delivers from there on out. To me, this movie was sort of a "Fantastic Voyage" meets "All of Me". The antics and situations that come about as a result of a science experiment gone wrong were pretty zany, over-the-top, and in some parts, just kind of weird. "InnerSpace" is definitely a movie where you have to suspend disbelief, or you won't get any pleasure out of it. Dennis Quaid said it best when he said of this film, "Leave your brain at home and you'll have a good time".
This was the movie where Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan first met. They would go on to star in additional films together, and become married during the years of 1991 to 2001. All in all, this was an entertaining movie with some silly parts, but you can't help but smile and laugh along the way. I've seen it a couple of times since my first viewing of it, and it holds up fairly well, even today. I recommend it at 7 stars out of 10. This is a fun way to spend a couple of hours.