An 80's classic. Dennis Quaid plays Lt. Tuck Pendleton, a cocky pilot taking part in a revolutionary experiment. Think NASA and space exploration but on a much smaller scope... think smaller, and then smaller still. Tuck Pendleton is taking place in a miniaturization experiment where his ship is going to be shrunk with him in it, and then he's going to be injected into an animal to explore. Like all good 80's capers things go wrong. The lab conducting the experiment is targeted by a squad of goons working for a rival, instead of an animal (a rabbit FTR); Pendleton is accidentally injected into hapless store clerk Jack Putter, played by Martin Short. And so, the adventure begins. Putter has to race against time with Pendleton inside him to resolve the accident, failure to do so will result in Pendleton growing to normal size while inside Putter - which will be a bloody mess. Although I'm not a fan of Martin Short, the casting is good in this film. There is a great balance between Quaid's very confident persona, and Short's shy, paranoid and hypochondriac portrayal. The special effects in this film, in particularly the shots which were supposed to be inside of a human body look a little dated now as my trained eye can see the mesh from green screen to genuine footage - but when I watched this as a child I was awestruck at how authentic it looked. This was a great family movie in 1987 and due to a decent story this film is still a great family movie, falling into the sci-fi/adventure genre. Think "Fantastic Voyage" with an 80's soundtrack and a bigger budget. 7 out of 10

This is probably the least known and most unusual choice of my favorites, but it combines comedy, sci-fi, action, suspense, drama and romance as effortlessly as Back to the Future. The story keeps building as it goes along. A navy pilot named Tuck Pendelton has agreed to be miniaturized in a syringe once he's first placed inside a space pod. His goal is to discover the inside of a rabbit, but soon the syringe he is in is being held captive by a doctor who is being chased by scientists from another organization that want to steal the syringe and claim the experiment themselves. Soon, the doctor injects the syringe into an innocent civilian played by Martin Short and through complications is trying to get Tuck out of his body once they communicate through the monitors of Tuck's pod seeing everything that Tuck sees through the pupils of the Jack's eye and audio through his inner ears which are recorded through the speaker's of the pod. The attention to detail of the human body is extraordinary. It really looks like actual footage of the human body and it blends with the on set footage of Tuck cruising through it flawlessly. The movie won a well deserved Oscar for Visual Effects and it features some of the most timeless effects I've seen on film.

Director Joe Dante made many Films a lot Better than this. "The Howling" (1981), "Gremlins" (1984), ""Matinee" (1993), and, "Small Soldiers" (1998), just to mention a Few.This "Spielberg" Production has got Money Behind it and on the Surface it is Slick. But the Scenes Inside "Innerspace" are Not So Great Considering. Although it did Take Home the Oscar.The 1966 Film "Fantastic Voyage" that this one Spoofs has SFX that, Believe it or Not, Top this one, 20 Years Later.The Stuff and Nonsense Outside the Body is Broad Slapstick and Surprisingly Lacking Insight and Wit from the Usually Funny Director and the Movie Feels like it is Struggling at times.. Dennis Quaid Overacts more than usual and Meg Ryan Isn't Bad, but can't Carry a Film like this.Martin Short's Debut is Passable and has a Certain Warmth and Charm that Quaid and Ryan leave Off Screen somewhere and it is Short that Propels the Film along while others just along for the Ride, it seems.It's a Fondly Remembered Movie from the 80' and is OK Family Fun, but is Overrated and Joe Dante Fans are Likely to be Let Down.

I like 80s movies like this that take me back to my youth growing up in the 80s. Martin Short as the clumsy hypochondriac who sees his doctor in a nervous wreck and is told he has to learn to relax. His over the top nervousness reminded me of Mel Brook's 70s film "High anxiety" where Mel acts in a similar way, like someone who just had 10 caffeinated cans of soda. Short, after telling his doctor about a freaky dream of him helping an arragant woman customer at the grocery store he works at and him first, somehow ringing up extreme prices for her items (I like how she says "that's a little pricey for shampoo, don't ya think?), and then, the lady pulling a small gun on him, with him then waking up in a panic. Only a short time later, it happens for real at the store exactly like in his dream, and then the gun part, turns out to be a lighter. It doesn't matter; Short, who was already a jangled mess, completely snaps at the store in front of everyone. At a lab nearby, scientists are setting up an experiment for Dennis Quaid to be miniaturized in a submarine and be injected into a rabbit. Quiad gets into a sub, the sub starts spinning incredibly fast, then shrinks to microscopic size, and then pushes off into a syringe. High tech criminals bust into the lab to try to take over, a scientist with the syringe with Quaid inside it flees to a mall, and accidentally injects the syringe with Quaid into Short, who was at the mall to book a relaxation vacation (sorry Short, change of plans). The scientist gets shot, with his last experience being a bunch of people in animal costumes standing over him, and funny animal noises forming into his last conscious few seconds while looking at the people in the animal costumes. That bizarre moment was something particularly of the 80s where other bizarre style 80s films like "Killer Klowns from outer space" provided similar moments. We then get our story of Quaid traveling through the inside of Short's body, with fairly convincing special effects, to hook gadgets from his craft up to the insides of his eyes and ears to be able to talk to short and to be able to see whatever Short sees. The next hour of the film revolves around Quaid's and Short's experience of the two of them talking to each other, Short meeting Quaids girlfriend Meg Ryan (she was so young and beautiful here)(Short to Meg: "Lydia, shut up and listen! " Quaid from inside : "wow, you said it good"), Short explaining to Quaid's lab partners what's happened (I like how Quaid on the inside says "you better help out you two faced sonofabitch!", and Short tells them "he says 'thank you'"), and then Quaid and Short going after the bad guys. I always liked the bad guy, who looks all serious and intimidating in his suit and shades, with the machanical hand who can shoot from his finger like a gun, totally freaking out a kid in the mall while doing it. I also like the scene where Short drinks some whiskey, Quaid catches it with a vile while sitting in Shorts throat and drinks some himself, and the two of them live it up for a few minutes dancing around intoxicated (Quaid: "let the good times roll"). I found quite funny the scene where Short turns on the TV and Quaid says "oh great, I'm inside a guy who likes game shows". And also funny when Shorts TV and the monitor inside Quads ship catches fire at the same time, and then hilarious the way Short jumps while holding the fire extinguisher when Quaid calls his name. I also liked the scene in the doctors waiting room with Quaid on the inside of Short talking to him and the other people in the waiting room thinking he's talking to them, one of them asking if he was all right and Short yelling "would I be in a doctors office if I was feeling all right!?" I also liked Short and Meg's kissing scene with Quaid temporarily transferring over to inside Meg's body and finding a certain surprise. They could've done with out the unessessary add- on of the cowboy. It crossed the time limit of the movie over into slightly too long.