Innerspace (1987)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 29 | Rotten: 7
A manic, overstuffed blend of sci-fi, comedy, and romance, Innerspace nonetheless charms, thanks to Martin Short's fine performance and the insistent zaniness of the plot.
Average Rating: 5.9/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
A manic, overstuffed blend of sci-fi, comedy, and romance, Innerspace nonetheless charms, thanks to Martin Short's fine performance and the insistent zaniness of the plot.
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Golden Globe-nominees Meg Ryan ("Sleepless in Seattle," "When Harry Met Sally...") and Dennis Quaid ("In Good Company," "The Day After Tomorrow"), and Emmy-winner Martin Short (TV's "Merlin," "Mars Attacks!") star in this sci-fi comedy fantasy directed by Joe Dante ("Looney Tunes: Back in Action," "Gremlins" 1 & 2). A rambunctious Navy test pilot (Quaid) undergoes a top-secret miniaturization experiment and is accidentally injected into the body of a hypochondriac clerk (Short). Siskel & Ebert
Jul 3, 1987 Wide
Jul 9, 2002
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Dennis Quaid
Lt. Tuck Pendelton -
Martin Short
Jack Putter -
Meg Ryan
Lydia Maxwell -
Kevin McCarthy
Victor Scrimshaw -
Fiona Lewis
Dr. Margaret Canker -
Henry Gibson
Mr. Wormwood -
Vernon Wells
Mr. Igoe -
Robert Picardo
The Cowboy -
Wendy Schaal
Wendy -
Harold Sylvester
Peter Blanchard -
William Schallert
Dr. Greenbush -
John Hora
Ozzie Wexler -
Mark L. Taylor
Dr. Niles -
Orson Bean
Lydia's Editor -
Kevin Hooks
Duane -
Kathleen Freeman
Dream Lady -
Archie Hahn III
Messenger -
Kenneth Tobey
Man in Restroom -
Charles Aidman
Speaker at Banquet -
Christine Avila
Lab Technician -
Alan Blumenfeld
Man with Camera -
Joe Flaherty
Waiting Room Patient -
Jenny Gago
Lab Technician -
Robert Gray
Lab Assault Henchman -
Grainger Hines
Rusty -
Rance Howard
Supermarket Customer -
Andrea Martin
Waiting Room Patient -
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Terry McGovern
Travel Agent -
Dick Miller
Cab Driver -
Frank A Miller
Scrimshaw's Henchman -
John Miranda
Man in Elevator -
Laura Waterbury
Supermarket Customer -
Jeffrey Boam
Lydia's Interview -
Chuck Jones
Supermarket Customer -
Neil Ross
Pod Computer -
Herb Mitchell
Camera Store Clerk -
Jason Laskay
Scrimshaw's Henchman -
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All Critics (36) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (32) | Rotten (9) | DVD (16)
The plot is standard fantasy-adventure pulp, though director Joe Dante has so many screwball things going on in it that the comedy all but overwhelms the formulaic line of action.
Top CriticShort has infinitely more possibilities and makes the most of them, coming into his own as a screen personality as a mild-mannered little guy who rises to an extraordinary situation.
While the anatomical special effects are imaginative enough, the manic rather than magical tone fails to achieve the sense of awe that made Fantastic Voyage -- clearly this film's inspiration -- so fascinating.
It has been made in a style best described as enthusiastic.
Here is an absurd, unwieldy, overplotted movie that nevertheless is entertaining - and some of the fun comes from the way the plot keeps laying it on.
It's an easy-to-get-along-with movie -- bouncy, rabbity fun.
'80s sci-fi adventure comedy has some drinking, swearing.
While the sci-fi is pretty hard to fault for what it is, and the adventure is aces for a high-concept 1980s family movie, the comedy is awfully wan and reedy.
For all the Amblin technology on display, Dante's greatest effects are humanistic
Formulaic fun, helped by two winning leads.
Though the film plays like a mix of exhilarating adventure and smart comedy, it's deepened by the notion that little Quaid is floating around inside Short's body sinking hooks into things, ripping open veins, triggering stomach acid, and the like.
A really inventive and truly funny fantasy-comedy.
A funny for all family. A classical 80s movie.
Director Joe Dante throws in every special effects trick in the book to give some heft to the skimpy script but it doesn't work.
Director Joe Dante opts for low comedy, not high drama, with Batmanesque villains, pre-Mask morphing, and more than one Austin Powers-style 'mini-me.'
Aventura de ficção científica que, com o toque amalucado de Joe Dante, vira uma comédia quase besteirol - aliás, em alguns momentos vai até longe demais. No entanto, os efeitos são bacanas, o espírito é de diversão e o filme agrada.
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