Thursday, April 3, 2008

INNERSPACE (4 STARS)


Innerspace (great title by the way) is an action slapstick science fiction comedy about a science experiment gone bad. Tuck (played by Dennis Quaid) is miniaturized and is to be inserted into a bunny, that doesn't work out and he ends up in the butt of Jack (played by Martin Short), the hypochondriac who now knows FOR SURE that something is wrong with him when he starts feeling something inside of him and hearing a voice speak to him in his ear. There's a love interest on both accounts played by Meg Ryan, and she is as cute as ever. Looking like she just walked off the set of Joe vs the volcano, she warms my heart and makes me giggle like a school girl.

Martin Short is really funny. He uses a slapstick humor that no one these days can pull off. Watch this, then watch Clifford.

I saw this movie on TV when i was 12 or something. It looked so familiar the whole time. I've thought about this movie a lot. Theres a scene where Jack is flipping out and grabs a bottle of asprin and chugs it. And the kissing scene. And just the fact that a huge ship is inside someone cutting them up and swimming around in the blood stream.

Innerspace was directed by Joe Dante who directed the Gremlins movies. Since then, he's been doing random TV shows... but the Gremlins were awesome.

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