Innerspace

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Summary: Very funny
Review: I like the story line of the movie and it was very funny

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Summary: A SCI-FI ADVENTURE!
Review: I really love this movie, it's one of my favorites. It is a sci fi movie about a man who has to be put in a scientific experiment gone bad. This movie is very interesting the whole way through and I would reccomend it for anyone looking for a great time.

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Summary: That Little Voice Inside of You
Review: I thought this was a harmless little comedy version of "Fantastic Voyage", quite cute. Pilot Dennis Quaid gets shrunk down to be injected into a rabbit, but goofy Martin Short gets in the way of the hypo. So Quaid has to navigate his way around Short and make up with his girlfriend Meg Ryan at the same time, through Short. But there are nasty evildoers trying to stand in the way of all this getting accomplished, most notably Kevin McCarthy of "Body Snatchers" fame from the 1950s. He and his female accomplice also get squirted with some of the miniaturizing stuff, but merely become little midgets battling it out in a car. That was a great silly moment.

Listen to that little voice, and laugh a lot at "Innerspace".

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Summary: A fun "Fantastic Voyage" update!
Review: I'm a big fan of this film. BIG fan. It struck a chord with me back in 1987, and I love it to this day.

It's a Joe Dante film, with early performances by Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan.

It's goofier than all get out; here's the synopsis.

Dennis Quaid is a loose cannon test pilot with a bit of an alcohol problem, who gets "demoted" to a secret military program involving miniaturization. He is to be shrunk down, along with a mini-submarine, and injected into a lab rabbit, to test things like the ability to hook up to a host's optic or auditory nerve.
Meg Ryan plays a reporter, romantically involved with Quaid, but for the moment, estranged.
Martin Short plays a hypochondriac supermarket assistant manager.

So, Quaid gets shrunk right before "the bad guys" (led by an over-the-top Kevin McCarthy) invade the laboratory, and in his last act as a living person, the escaping lead investigator injects the microscopic Quaid into Short's left buttock.

Hilarity ensues.

I didn't really care much for the whole "stealing technology" plot thread (there's a very early role by Robert Picardo), but it's there as a scaffold, just to watch Quaid and Short deal with each other. And that's really a joy to watch.

The one scene in the doctor's office, with Quaid finally patched into Short's inner ear, is hysterical. Short gets to mug opposite old friends (and SCTV alums) Joe Flaherty and Andrea Martin...I've seen it a hundred times yet I still laugh every time.

Yes, there are a lot of clunky lines and bits of extreme over-acting. If you have a problem with either Dennis Quaid or Martin Short, it'll be tough for you to like this movie. Overthink this movie, and you're doing yourself a disservice.

On the other hand, if you like either of those two guys, and are in the mood for a fun romp, this is well worth a viewing. You'll love seeing about a dozen character actors, sprinkled in small roles like Short's doctor, the supermarket manager, Ryan's co-workers...you've seen them in a million movies, and they're perfectly cast here. The 80's fashions and music are an unintentional riot in and of themselves.

They DO up the class level when they selected Sam Cooke songs as the key tunes to the film though.

The DVD looks great...the red Mustang just pops right off the screen. Some of the effects reveal their age (in particular the non-inside-the-body ones), but the scenes inside Martin Short STILL look terrific!
Nice sonics with crisp details.

Depending on your child's exposure to the four-letter word describing excrement (it's used about half a dozen times or so...), this movie is appropriate for a large age range. It's really just a simple lark of a film.

And I still find it to be most enjoyable...

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Summary: Amusing , if nothing else
Review: If nothing else, this movie's plot is actually pirated from old sci-fi, rather than the new (Matrix, anyone?). The visuals are very good, but the most enjoyable aspect was the superb acting. There are plenty of side-splitting moments where the comedy is achieved with sensibility rather than slapstick. A must-see, although in the later times this has become sort of senseless.

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Summary: A great combination of sci-fi and comedy!
Review: Innerspace has always been one of my all-time favorite movies, so I was excited to find out it would be released on DVD. Perhaps the best part of the DVD is the excellent digital transfer they did. The movie was originally released in 1986, but it looks and sounds brand new on the DVD. You can see and hear things you couldn't before, an example being the deep bass of Putter's heartbeat during the scenes taking place inside of him. If you are a fan of this movie and have a DVD player, do yourself a favor and pick this up. You will not be disappointed!

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Summary: A Very Cute Movie!
Review: Innerspace is a very cute movie that stars Dennis Quaid, Meg Ryan and Martin Short and they are all good! Dennis Quaid plays a man who is part of a miniaturization experiment but when he is miniaturized he is accidently injected into the body of a neurotic, hypochondriac grocery store clerk played by Martin Short and when he is pursued by spies he inlists the help of Dennis Quaid's character's girlfriend played by Meg Ryan. Innerspace is just a very cute movie that is entertaining and funny and I have to recommend it!

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Summary: Great Fun!
Review: Innerspace is an often silly but always entertaining film about a test pilot (Dennis Quaid) who is supposed to be shrunk and put inside a rabbit. Instead things go terribly wrong and he winds up injected into a hypochondriac (Martin Short). There's villians of course who are after Short because Quaid has something they want and they know he's inside Short "that doesn't sound right, lol".

I never had any idea Joe Dante (Gremlins) direected this film, now that I know that it's easily my favorite of his films "yes even over Gremlins". It's just a fun movie with a nicely written script. Don't get me wrong I know it has it's problems. Mean it's absord that you're suppose to believe that Quaid can change Short's appearence and make him look like anyone. Meanwhile if he was only suppose to be put inside a rabbit why would that ship he's inside need the option to change appearences. Well this film just shouldn't be taken seriously, it's more enjoyable if you turn if your brain before watching it.

It's the Short and Quaid team that makes this film so watchable. When you think about it they aren't even acting together so that makes their work in this even more impressive as you believe they're actually talking to each other. Well anyway Quaid makes the Short character who's wimpy and afraid of everything tougher and gives him the backbone he needs. Innerspace is a fun Science Fiction comedy but also works as a buddy movie and it's actually one of the best ones you'll find. Now all we need is another film by Joe Dante, well as long as it's not Small Soldiers 2.

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Summary: Awesome
Review: Innerspace might start out wierd, but as you go along, the better it gets. Martin Short has the best character. And he is VERY funny. I died laughing. It isn't the least bit stupid like some of those movies back then. And Meg Ryan is Meg Ryan. Buy this, you won't regret it.

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Summary: The Funniest Movie Ever
Review: Martin and Dennis are a great match. The faces of Martin is priceless. My 12 year old grandson and I watch this movie 3 or 4 times a year. This is the movie to own.