Innerspace

MOVIE #1,880 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 08.13.24 I was really looking forward to this: one I loved as a kid but haven't seen in ages. I like how they just get right into the experiment/plot without needless exposition and/or extraneous details about how/why, etc. This 100% holds up and is just perfectly paced: two hours of cartoonish action, AKA what all the modern comic book movies of today should be striving for. The three leads (Quaid, Short and Ryan) are all perfectly cast. Even the beyond ridiculous plot twists are forgivable because it allows them to do stuff like this visually…

Some odds and ends thoughts:

• This is the second Dante feature in a row to feature a direct reference to Bugs Bunny, fitting because he would make a Looney Tunes movie right around the corner.

• “Who do you think introduced Velcro to the Persian Gulf?” A question we’ve all wondered.

• The villain’s ‘gun finger’ is something that has stuck in my brain since seeing this at age 10 or so on VHS. I thought it was the coolest thing I’d ever seen…


• The ship design here feels like a direct reference to the tilt-a-whirl craft in Explorers (h/t this guy on Twitter for graphic)...


Just a near-perfect comedic sci-fi action flick. Such a fun, silly movie.

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Innerspace is a 1987 American science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Michael Finnell. Steven Spielberg served as executive producer. It was inspired by the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage. It stars Dennis Quaid, Martin Short and Meg Ryan, with Robert Picardo and Kevin McCarthy, with music composed by Jerry Goldsmith. It earned $25.9 million in worldwide theatrical rentals and won an Oscar for Best Visual Effects, the only film directed by Dante to do so. It was released on July 1, 1987.