in 1989, Disney released a live-action adventure starring Canadian acting legend Rick Moranis as inventor Wayne Szalinki who has spent a long time discovering how to shrink matter down to microscopic size. However, a chain of events causes his 2 children to shrink, and his neighbor's kids to shrink. The adventure currently holds a rating of 6.2 on IMDb and is considered the best of the series.
Skip ahead a few years. the family has since moved to Vista Del Mar, Nevada from Fresno, and a lot has changed. Nick is now a teenager, Amy is off to college, and Wayne and Diane have another child - Adam. While the shrink ray worked, Wayne Szalinski (A hard name to spell) Is working on a ray that can enlarge matter and thus perhaps bring an end to world hunger. However, the project is no longer in his attic, it's in a high-tech laboratory, and the project is supervised by a scientist who thinks he's better than everyone else. One day while working on the project without the lab's permission, Wayne attempts to enlarge his son Adam's stuffed bunny, but while busy with the computers, Adam gets in the way of the laser, and slowly over time, becomes bigger, eventually to the size of a building.
To be honest, I like this one over the first one. I guess the premise of a ginormous baby hasn't been done before and no one's done it since.
But the real reason I love this one? A Teenage Keri Russell in a pink bikini. At 4 years old, it was the first time I had ever laid eyes on a girl in a bikini swimsuit (that I can remember) and it's stuck with me for years. even at almost 40 years old (Or older considering this review is being re-written in 2014) Keri still looks incredible in a bikini.
For a sequel, this is one you might want to check out. it's by no means a horrible movie, but at least it wasn't the 3rd and final movie of the series - Honey we shrunk ourselves. that one was pathetic.
8/10
Skip ahead a few years. the family has since moved to Vista Del Mar, Nevada from Fresno, and a lot has changed. Nick is now a teenager, Amy is off to college, and Wayne and Diane have another child - Adam. While the shrink ray worked, Wayne Szalinski (A hard name to spell) Is working on a ray that can enlarge matter and thus perhaps bring an end to world hunger. However, the project is no longer in his attic, it's in a high-tech laboratory, and the project is supervised by a scientist who thinks he's better than everyone else. One day while working on the project without the lab's permission, Wayne attempts to enlarge his son Adam's stuffed bunny, but while busy with the computers, Adam gets in the way of the laser, and slowly over time, becomes bigger, eventually to the size of a building.
To be honest, I like this one over the first one. I guess the premise of a ginormous baby hasn't been done before and no one's done it since.
But the real reason I love this one? A Teenage Keri Russell in a pink bikini. At 4 years old, it was the first time I had ever laid eyes on a girl in a bikini swimsuit (that I can remember) and it's stuck with me for years. even at almost 40 years old (Or older considering this review is being re-written in 2014) Keri still looks incredible in a bikini.
For a sequel, this is one you might want to check out. it's by no means a horrible movie, but at least it wasn't the 3rd and final movie of the series - Honey we shrunk ourselves. that one was pathetic.
8/10