For a while Disney lost its way. Audiences fell as the films became a mess of over-sentimentality and lost the 'magic' Walt had put into his films. The 80's saw Disney regain its lost popularity and once again audiences deliberately went to see 'a new Disney film'. The latest film to reach Britain from Disney is the highly successful Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
IT is, of course, complete rubbish. If you've read Asimov's Fantastic Voyage II you'll know of all the complications in reducing the size of a body, and somehow a baseball and laser do not ring true as a useful scientific combination. Similarly, would ants act as the one in this picture? But that really doesn't matter, this is obviously a Fantasy film and the main thrust of the film, as with all good Disneys, is the interaction between the characters, and their maturing - which goes for some of the adults as well!
The Parents
The whacky inventor father, Professor Wayne Szalinski, is played by Rick Moranis, the man previously plagued by ghosts and man-eating plants. It's his machine, naturally, which does the shrinking and it's he who, unknowingly, sweeps the children up into the trash and deposits them at the bottom of the garden. His is a character sure of, and obsessed by, his invention, confused by its apparent failure to work and ridiculed by his colleagues - strange how main-stream scientists are always portrayed as stick-in-the-muds!
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The Children
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Production
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Mexico Filming
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Is Big Better?
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Ant Siz
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