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Movie Reviews of Innerspace
Movie Review: Spielberg's Fantastic Voyage
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was released in 1987...and many movies from the 80s show their 20+ year age but this movie does not show its age. 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.
The premise is simple. Dennis Quaid is a test pilot who has been passed up for the space program and instead is picked up by an obscure government program to pilot a submarine that is going to be miniaturized and injected into a rabbit. He has some personal problems with Meg Ryan and she dumps him. He gets miniaturized but before he can be injected into the rabbit the bad guys break into the lab to steal the technology that miniaturizes people. A lab assistant escapes with a minaturized Quaid in his pod in a syringe. Before he is killed, the assistant injects Quaid into an unsuspecting hypocondriac, Martin Short. Quaid's pod has the capability to interface with the optic nerve and the eardrum of the person he's injected in so he can "talk" to his host and "see" what he sees. And so, begins this wonderful adventure to get Quaid back to normal size by getting the stolen technology back, get Quaid back together with Meg Ryan, to get the bad guys, and to prove that Martin Short is not crazy hearing Quaid in his head. I won't spoil the movie from there on -- its a great ride. Oh, I will add that somewhere along the way we bump into Robert Picardo who plays "The Cowboy," a wonderfully memorable performance by Robert Picardo as some kind of technology mercenary -- Picardo commands the silver screen whenever he's on camera --definitely worth watching for just that.
This movie was great back in the 80s and still is a great movie. Spielberg did a great job making it timeless. The special effects are still good today and Quaid, Short, Meg Ryan, Robert Picardo are great in this movie.
The movie felt very much like a modernized Fantastic Voyage -- being about the inner space (the human body) only with a romantic comedy + action adventure movie mixed in.
This is definitely worth watching -- its an "A" Movie from an "A" Director with "A" Actors. I will also say that this is a more innocent movie from a more innocent time in moviemaking which is a welcome break from the overly "cool" and overly "sheik" personas in today's movies. It is a Fantastic Voyage. If you grew up in the 80s, you'll love this.
If you're wondering what the feel of this movie is -- its very similar to Back to the Future in terms of flavor with about the same amount of adventure, a dash less comedy and a pinch more romantic comedy. This movie inspired rides at the major theme parks so it was a major production. If you have Back to the Future, you need to have Inner Space.
Movie Review: A Great Night In?
Summary: 5 Stars
"InnerSpace" is a great sci-fi comedy film with plenty of special effects and interesting ideas. I've seen quite a few times, and it's always good fun to watch.
Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) is a scientist, who has volunteered to become a part of an exciting new experiment. Surrounded by a pod of machinery, he will be shrunk down to microscopic size and put inside a rabbit. Unfortunately, the experiment is invaded by mercanaries, who want to sell the new technology to the highest Cold War bidder. A brave scientist, and a good friend of Tuck's, makes a run for it, holding the syringe in which Tuck has been placed. He injects Tuck into a passer by, Jack Putter (Martin Short), a hypercondriac by nature. How will this man react when there's something really wrong with him, when he hears voices broadcast into his ear from inside of him? Will Tuck, with only a limited amount of oxygen, be able to escape? And if he does, will he get back together with his girlfriend (Meg Ryan)?
The special effects really make this film special (pardon the pun). You get to see inside the bloodstream, float above the pumping heart, see the boiling acid of the stomach. I was never that good at biology in high school, but I still found all this really interesting. There are some also some sillier special effects, like people shrunk to half size, and shape changing faces. Everyone plays their part in a pretty 1980s way, which fits perfectly with the pretty 1980s filming. The San Francisco location was a nice touch, and added a bit of colour to the action sequences. The banter between Jack and Tuck, the coaching and the commeraderie between them, is pretty cool in a goofy sort of way. It's all very fascinating to watch when you put it together.
For lovers of sci-fi, comedy and 1980s special effects, this is definitely worth a look.
Movie Review: A Great Sci-Fi/Comedy From The Creators of Gremlins!
Summary: 5 Stars
Hey, movie viewers! If you liked Gremlins, you MUST see this great 1987 film! It is about a ex-Lieutenant of the U.S. Marines, Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid, Any Given Sunday), who is the subject of a minaturization experiment, which requires 2 microchips. He gets inside a submersible pod, is minaturized down to a microscopic size, placed in a syringe, and is supposed to be injected into a bunny named BUGS!! However, a bunch of criminals, disguised as phone repairmen, break into the laboratory and steal one of the chips. But, a good friend of Tuck's who works at the lab, Ozzie, takes the syringe, runs off, is chased to a mall, and shot. Fortunately, he lives long enough to run into a nerdy hypochondriac named Jack (Martin Short, Primetime Glick), and injects Tuck into him. Later on, Tuck finds out he is in a man, then establishes contact with Jack by placing an amplifier in his ear, and attaches a camera to his eye to see what Jack sees, and tells him what is going on and that he only has 'til 9:00 a.m. tomorrow to get out of him before his air supply runs out. Tuck tells him to go find his girlfriend (Meg Ryan, Hanging Up), and get help from her to recover the chip and save Tuck. This film is a GREAT sci-fi/comedy, and is from the creators of Gremlins (producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante). It is also based on the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage. Like Gremlins, it is also a VERY good family classic. So, if you liked Gremlins, then you HAVE to see this movie! It's REAL KOOL!Movie Review: Inner and outer humor
Summary: 5 Stars
Spielberg has been a great entertainer in his career with films like Close Encounters, E.T. and Gremlins. Innerspace is in that line. It is very interesting to rediscover that side of this filmmaker. Here everything is entertainment and fun, great fun because marvellous humour inhabits every single frame. A little bit of suspense with spies trying to steal this brand new military technology on miniaturization, but the ideological discourse is kind of anecdotic. The fascination of the film comes from the fact that the camera takes us inside the most intimate functions of a body : blood, heart, stomach with ot without an ulcer (it could be debated), even a pregant uterus, etc. This deep voyage may prompt a claustrophobic reaction but the humor of it will push that reaction aside in no time. Then we can wonder about the relation between the body and its invader who together manage to encounter and desire the same woman, but the menage a trois is tactfully dealt with thanks to a few benevolent kisses. And it all ends up with more menaces and adventures, with one wedding and one liberation, and the liberated Jack Putter running after the newly wed couple, supposedly to protect them, so he says... Our life is definitely not a rabbit's life, is it not ?
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Université Paris Dauphine, Université Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne
Movie Review: One of Kind movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is one of my favorite. I watched this movie growing up and still loving it. The chemistry of the characters are just perfect. Dennis Quaid and Martin Short are meant for this movie. Sure, the plot is hard to believe..How can a person be shrink into size of a cell? But what about all other movies out there? So for those of you who complain that this movie is not plausible, Go ahead and try to make a plausible movie that is close to realism for your self. Sick of people like you. Duh.Anyway, the DVD itself is not a big deal. The case itself is flimsy. The DVD has commentary of director and few of the actors from the movie and has the original trailer of the movie. The commentary is fun to listen to if you are the fan of this movie. It tells you lots of trivia information, but it's funny. So if you like this movie, get it for yourself. I don't think they are going to release any further edition of this movie.