Dennis Quaid

Martin Short

Meg Ryan

Kevin McCarthy

Fiona Lewis

Vernon Wells

Robert Picardo

Dick Miller

Wendy Schaal

Harold Sylvester

William Schallert

Henry Gibson

John Hora

Mark L. Taylor

Orson Bean

Kevin Hooks

Kathleen Freeman

Archie Hahn

Kenneth Tobey

Joe Flaherty

Andrea Martin

Jason Laskay

Frank Miller

Christine Avila

Alexandra Borrie

Jenny Gago

Robert Gounley

Grainger Hines

Mike Garibaldi

Richard McGonagle

Terence McGovern

Robert Neches

Rance Howard

Chuck Jones

Laura Waterbury

Kurt Braunreiter

Brewster Sears

Alan Blumenfeld

Jeffrey Boam

Sydne Squire

Paul Barselou

John Miranda

Jordan Benjamin

Roberto Ramirez

Virginia Boyle

Herb Mitchell

Neil Ross

Robert Gray

Shawn Nelson

Joe Dante

Jerry Goldsmith

Chip Proser

Pete Kozachik

Mike Johnson

Rob Bottin

Corey Michael Eubanks

Al Wyatt Sr.

Cindy Wills

Simone Boisseree

Dick Warlock

Steven Lambert

Rod Stewart

Michael Wood

Dennis Muren

Andrew Laszlo

Glenn Randall Jr.

Rosanna Norton

Gene Nollman

John Rizzo

Jon Peters

Steven Spielberg

Carol Green

Elliot Tyson

Ray Kinzer

Wayne Fitzgerald

Mike Fenton

Wayne Allwine

Terry Hager

Judy Cammer

Richard C. Goddard

Frank Marshall

Anne Warner

Warren Hamilton Jr.

Stephen Abrums

Teresa Eckton

Joy Zapata

Pat Kehoe

Mark Goldblatt

Douglas Vaughan

Barbara Lorenz

David Oliver Pfeil

Kathleen Kennedy

John C. Broderick

Ken King

Jane Feinberg

Judy Taylor

Mark Mangini

John Pospisil

James Matheny

Kent Beyda

James H. Spencer

Kenneth Hall

Peter Guber

Michael Finnell

James Plannette

Craig Raiche

William F. Matthews

Robert J. Litt

Steve Maslow

Michael Muscarella

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Innerspace

Amblin Entertainment

Warner Bros. Pictures

Guber/Peters Company

United States of America

English

experiment

san francisco, california

shrinking

test pilot

Eat Me - Drink Me

Innerspace is directed by Joe Dante and written by Jeffrey Boam and Chip Proser. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan and Kevin McCarthy. Music is by
Jerry Goldsmith and cinematography by Andrew Laszlo.

A hapless hypochondriac store clerk battles to save the life of the man who, miniaturized in a secret experiment, was accidentally injected into him. 

The premise is of course absurd, but everyone involved knows this and proceed to entertain with a mixture of thrills, spills and a good old fashioned good versus bad value. Narrative is based around the race against time thematic as miniaturised Tuck Pendleton (Quaid) fights from within the body of Jack Putter (Short). He has to keep Jack out the hands of crooks who are after the secrets of the miniaturisation process, whilst simultaneously being on a clock before he runs out of air - or fall prey to Jack's anti-bodies system etc.

Dante strings together some terrific set pieces, while the realisation of the inside of the human body is smartly staged. Cast are on hugely engaging form, with the central relationship between Quaid and Short a pure joy and mined for constant laugh and peril tactics. The dual aspect is niftily handled by Dante and his crew, with the battle within Jack's body running concurrently with Jack's battles out in the real world.

What wonderful sci-fi froth this is, as Dante has a blast of a time with the effects tools to hand to take the concept of Fantastic Voyage and make a top line action comedy adventure. Great soundtrack too! 8/10

Filipe Manuel Neto

**A funny, effective and familiar comedy that deserves to be brought back from obscurity.**

This is one of those “no bones” comedies that we can watch with the whole family without any fear of embarrassing or inappropriate scenes for kids or deeply critical grandparents. It's a film from the 80s, quite dated, but that's not a problem for people like me, who actually like old films.

The story is very good and revolves around an experiment that goes wrong and involves the miniaturization of a ship with a human occupant, which should be introduced into a laboratory rabbit: when the laboratory is robbed by bandits who want to steal that technology, one of the scientists escapes and ends up injecting the liquid containing the ship into the body of an inadvertent citizen. What happens next is quite hilarious.

Dennis Quaid does a decent job as the ship's pilot, a daring combat aviator who volunteers for the experiment. I thought that the actor doesn't leave his comfort zone, he doesn't have a complicated task, and he just brags. Better than him, Martin Short shone as the fearful and shy man who, by chance, was dragged into that mess after being injected against his will. The actor managed to give the character an interesting evolutionary arc, where the character gradually gains more confidence and an adventurous spirit. Meg Ryan has the worst material: she just needs to be attractive and look scared.

Joe Dante deserves a shoutout for the work he did on this film. He's not a director I know very well, but I think this film is in line with what he likes to do most. The film may not be the most scientifically rigorous in the world (never, I believe, has the scientific community thought of anything similar to miniaturizing objects or people), but it makes up for it with humor and an unpretentious and good-natured spirit. The effects team did an excellent job, whether in the moments in which the ship is miniaturized or in the filming inside the human organism, where the realism is well achieved.

'Innerspace' | Best Visual Effects | Bill George | Behind the Oscars Speech

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Innerspace Wins Visual Effects: 1988 Oscars

Innerspace( 1987)

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A review by John Chard

Written by John Chard on Sun May 26 2019

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