A small problem

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

Directed by Joe Johnston this film stars Rick Moranis, Amy O'Neill, Thomas Wilson Brown and Matt Frewer. An inventor creates a shrink ray but his children and the children of the neighbours end up getting shrunk by accident.

At the time of release this film was a massive hit at the box office and had two sequels as well as a spin off television series but to modern viewers the plot is fairly basic. There is an interesting metaphor for kids feeling like they have been miniaturised in an adult world but this is never really explored to any degree. Some of the sets for the shrunk down sequences in the garden are not of a very high standard but the film just about gets by for the most part.

3/5