Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids

I'm here with another basic movie I've never seen, and as is the case with many of the movies on said list, it's a kid's movie. I grew up almost exclusively watching animated Disney films, so I wasn't very big on live-action fare, which is why, for example, I didn't see Home Alone until I was 22. I remember seeing Honey, I Shrunk the Audience at Disneyland as a kid, but apparently I never required the context of the original movie to enjoy that. It took being up at 1 in the morning bored with friends last week to finally choose to watch this film.

I watched the Roger Rabbit short Tummy Troubles on YouTube the day after I saw Honey, I Shrunk the Kids to get the full experience (since it was the original short that would play before the movie), and that's a super fun cartoon that I recommend watching regardless of whether or not you see Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, because it's much better.

I didn't hate Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, but I'm definitely far too late to the party. For one thing, none of the characters are very strong or interesting. The kids are all typical stock kid characters, the parents are typical busy-but-still-concerned parents (even Rick Moranis is surprisingly normal and grounded, despite being an inventor in an 80s movie), and the neighbors are a typical parental couple where the mom thinks the dad's too harsh and the dad's too harsh.

Once the kids get small, which thank goodness happens pretty quickly, the sets and special effects are all fun. The big blades of grass, the creepy ant that I somehow ended up getting attached to, and the giant bowl of cereal are all exactly the kinds of things that this movie should be doing and it does them well. The production design is easily the strongest element.

That's really all the thoughts I have, other than according to the movie RICK MORANIS WEIGHS AS MUCH AS A SMALL TV.

Sorry. I'm so sorry. It's just that, in the movie, Rick Moranis needs to hover over his backyard so he can search for his kids without stepping on them, so he makes what's essentially a giant scale, where he's attached by a rope to one side and something that's the same weight as him is attached by rope to the other side. So naturally he'd need to find something that's over 100 pounds (I'd rather not guess Moranis' actual weight), but instead he's balanced by what looks like an average-sized TV from the 80s. A TV that can't be more than maybe 50 pounds. And it balances him out perfectly. So, therefore, according to the science that the movie is putting in front of the viewer, RICK MORANIS WEIGHS AS MUCH AS A SMALL TV.

It's an insane detail that I can't seem to find discussion about anywhere on the internet. How has nobody caught this and talked about it? It's right there on the screen. HIS CHARACTER WEIGHS 50 POUNDS AT MOST.

Pictured: Not my imagination.

It's so baffling, and it's something that will haunt my thoughts until the day I die.

The movie was fine. The short before it is better. And Rick Moranis weighs as much as a small TV.

That's all.