Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is a 1989 comedy film released through Walt Disney Pictures. It stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, and Matt Frewer.

Plot outline

Moranis plays "nutty" inventor Wayne Szalinski who perfects a machine capable of shrinking objects down to as little as microscopic size. When his two oldest children and two the neighbors' children enter the room in which the shrinking machine is located in order to retrieve a lost baseball, they manage to trigger it and take the full brunt of the shrinking laser. They spend the rest of the movie trying to get back to the house after accidentally being taken out with the trash. Since they are so tiny, the trip is an epic adventure filled with a number of obstacles including "giant" insects and a runaway lawn mower.

Sequels

In 1992, Disney released the first sequel, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, with Rick Moranis and Marcia Strassman reprising their roles as the Szalinskis. As the title suggests, Wayne succeeds in enlarging his new baby to gigantic proportions as one of his size-changing experiments goes awry.

A three-dimensional film called Honey, I Shrunk The Audience complete with physical effects such as wind and water was created as an attraction at Disneyland and Walt Disney World in 1995. The attraction is a mock award show by "The Imagination Institute" that is intended to honor Szalinsky as "Inventor Of The Year." Instead, the audience is "shrunken" and threatened by a giant dog, a giant python and even a giant toddler, among other thrills. The attraction reprises most of the original cast and adds Eric Idle as the host of the award show.

Disney produced Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves in 1997 as a direct to video release. Only Rick Moranis reprised his role in this film. Many new characters we added such as Wayne's brother and his family. This time, it is the parents who of both families who are reduced to minuscule size.

The last incarnation of the franchise was the television program Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997 - 2000). Peter Scolari took over as Wayne Szalinski. The show's plots involved other wacky Szalinski inventions (rarely the shrinking ray) that don't work quite as expected and land the family in some type of humorous mixed up adventure that they must figure how to recover from.

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