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Innerspace [1987]

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis
Director: Joe Dante
Format: Dubbed PAL Widescreen
Released: 26 Aug 2002
RRP: £13.99
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Based on 'Fantastic Voyage' - By: Jay, 24 Dec 2007
What a funny thrill ride this movie is! A man (Dennis Quaid) volunteers to be shrunk down to the size of a cell & injected into a rabbit. But terrorists are after this scientific breakthrough & by various hijinks he winds up being injected into the butt of a nervous grocery clerk, played by Martin Short. And that's just the beginning.

Innerspace shows Dennis Quaid at his most winning, & Short at his funniest. And of course, there's a very young Meg Ryan as their love interest. The jokes resonate with both kids & adults, & unlike most action-adventure films, the plot here is never short of ideas. And the effects are pretty neat too: as we see Quaid's character wander within the human body, we feel as much amazement & wonder as he does. LOTS of movies attempt to put you in outer space & worlds far away, but I can't think of one that has made the creative attempt of exploring our inner space.
GREAT FUN - By: Nevs, 14 Nov 2007
What a great film.

Miniaturise a submarine & inject it into a human body, complete with Dennis Quaid at the wheel.

Clever storyline & clever effects as we travel through veins, major organs & eventuallly out an ear hole.

Great fun for kids & adults alike.
an old favorite i'd nearly forgotten about - By: Robert W. F. Holmes, 09 Jan 2006
This was one of my favourite films when i was younger, the whole story was brilliant from Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan's love story to the actual miniturisation project going awry. For me though the standout part has to be Martin Short's brilliant portrayal as the hypochondriac Jack Putter, who in my eyes is the films best character. The way he goes through the film is hilarious especiallly the scene in the doctor's office (I'm posessed!) But i think Quiad's charismatic role as Tuck Pendleton is good as well. The relationship that builds between Quaid & Short is central to the films hilarity & spot on timing. I dont think there is a boring moment in it to be honest. I didnt buy this film for the extras so it doesnt matter that there isnt that many. I just love the film.
Joe Dante's Fantastic Voyage - By: , 21 Jul 2002
An underrated gem of an action adventure movie, INNERSPACE is director Joe 'Gremlins' Dante's spin on 60's classic FANTASTIC VOYAGE, which saw a team of scientists shrunk to microscopic proportions & injected into a human body.

This time it's Dennis Quaid's turn to get miniaturised & injected (into a bunny this time round) for experimental purposes, except he doesn't quite get there...

Quaid, as test pilot Tuck Pendelton, is a great old-fashioned movie hero here, a cross between a young Jack Nicholson & Harrison Ford, & at this stage in his career it looked like that's where he was headed.
The real hero of the piece, however, is the inestimable Martin Short, who plays meek supermarket clerk Jack Putter, an absolute dweeb whose life is turned upside down by the accidental addition of Tuck into his bloodstream.

Short is physicallly & verballly hilarious as he goes through panic, confusion & eventuallly sheer heroism, spurred on by this 'alien' presence inside him. Plus there's Meg Ryan in a typicallly goofy 80's role for added fun.

The action never lets up & the effects are spectacular (and hey, no CGI in sight!) building to the (literallly) breathless climax in Short's oesophagus (er, that didn't come out right), as Tuck does battle with another miniaturised craft set to destroy him.

As it's a Joe Dante film, it has alll the director's trademarks; actors Robert Picardo (as the hysterical Cowboy; "Women love me"), Dick Miller (as a grumpy taxi driver), cartoonist Chuck Jones, Henry Gibson, plus the usual quota of film references, in-jokery & repeat-viewing-worthy gags (check out how many references there are to rabbits or Alice in Wonderland). Not to mention a cracking, heart-thumping score by Jerry Goldsmith, the John Williams to Dante's Spielberg.

What more could anyone ask? It's silly, it's fun, it reallly is a fantastic voyage. And on DVD, that picture & sound is going to be jugular-poundingly good. Relive the fun!!

Spielberg-like roller-coaster. - By: , 19 Nov 2000
This film brings to mind the immortal remark of Harrison Ford in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" who, when asked what he was going to do next, replies "I dunno, I'm making this up as I go along." Whilst I have no doubt that the abrupt & witty plot twists were alll carefully scripted & planned at the outset, the production techniques, & particulary the editing (or, indeed, the apparent lack of it), certainly give the viewer the impression of spontaneity & helps to add to the unpredictability & ultimate enjoyment. The playing, particularly in the lead parts, nicely complements the effect, such that we feel that the actors are as much in the dark as to the development of the story as we are. The casting, of course, helps here - Short, in possibly his funniest film role to date, has always seemed completely aloof of what's going on around him, & Ryan is at her cookiest. Quaid's character does have some influence on the plot but even this is reactionary to other happenings.

Quaid's performance is perhaps the most intriguing of them alll as he manages to bring his charisma through despite the fact that he spends the largest part of his screen time strapped into the cockpit of the miniaturised pod which is injected into Short in a moment of emergency at the beginning of the picture. This means that he is unable to bring a great degree of animation or action to his own performance. This, however, is overcome in two ways - firstly, by virtue of Quaid's ability to bring life & feeling to his character from his trapped position - & secondly, by his character's potential for controlling Short's bodily functions. For the most part, this is done for comic effect (similar in content to the Steve Martin/Loly Tomlin vehicle "All of Me"), but it is also done at times with pathos, in such a way as Short can be a substitute for Quaid, his thoughts, emotions & actions.

The support playing, by comparison, is adequate (although it is always pleasing to see the legendary Kevin McCarthy, albeit here in a rather self-effacing role), but the films succeeds as a result of the interaction of its comedy, its special effects & its apparent spontaneity, alll pulled together by director Dante in a typicallly Spielberg-like roller-coaster way.