Fresh
The plot is standard fantasy-adventure pulp, though director Joe Dante has so many screwball things going on in it that the comedy all but overwhelms the formulaic line of action.
Pat Graham, Chicago Reader
Innerspace
An adventure of incredible proportions.
1987 · 2h · PG
Action, Comedy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Joe Dante
Overview
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
Director and cast
- Joe Dante Director
- Dennis Quaid as Lt. Tuck Pendleton
- Martin Short as Jack Putter
- Meg Ryan as Lydia Maxwell
- Kevin McCarthy as Victor Eugene Scrimshaw
- Fiona Lewis as Dr. Margaret Canker
- Vernon Wells as Mr. Igoe
- Robert Picardo as The Cowboy
- Dick Miller as Cab Driver
- Wendy Schaal as Wendy
- Harold Sylvester as Pete Blanchard
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
82%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Short has infinitely more possibilities and makes the most of them, coming into his own as a screen personality as a mild-mannered little guy who rises to an extraordinary situation.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
While the anatomical special effects are imaginative enough, the manic rather than magical tone fails to achieve the sense of awe that made Fantastic Voyage -- clearly this film's inspiration -- so fascinating.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
It has been made in a style best described as enthusiastic.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Here is an absurd, unwieldy, overplotted movie that nevertheless is entertaining - and some of the fun comes from the way the plot keeps laying it on.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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