Movie Review: Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

"Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" is a really fun family film. The special effects still hold up to today's standards and were really amazing for the time. It was followed by the sequels, "Honey, I Blew Up The Kid" and "Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves" but the original was never surpassed.

Rick Moranis is great as Wayne Szalinski, the scientist father working on a machine that can shrink objects. But his machine is a failure until one of the neighbors hits a baseball through the attic window, bumping into the machine. When the two neighbors - Russel and Ronald - and Wayne's kids - Amy and Nick - go up to retrieve it, they step in the way of the beam and.... SHRINK! From then on it's a wild adventure that takes them from the attic (in a garbage bag) to the backyard. They have to get back to the house so that Wayne can get them back to normal size.

We all dream about far away places and new lands (at least I think we do!), but the unchartered territory for the majority of this film is different - it's right in the back yard! Blades of grass become slides, bumble bees become giant monsters, and everyone loves "Anty." And then of course comes the lawn mower... Their is comedy, romance, action, and adventure - something for everybody and more.

Of course, all of the actors do a great job. Everyone is likeable in their own way. But it's sad that Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters, Spaceballs) is the only one who really seems to have done much else. The other cast members icnlude Marcia Strassman as his wife, Amy O'Neill and Robert Oliveri as his kids, Kristine Sutherland and Jared Rushton as the neighbor parents, and Thomas Wilson Brown and Jared Rushton (Overboard, Big) as their sons.

"Honey, I Shrunk The Kids" is a memorable flick, that will stay with you (no matter what size you are).