1987 · sci-fi · comedy · adventure
Innerspace
Directed by Joe Dante2h 0m1987
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.
Our read: Innerspace (1987) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive sci-fi · comedy · adventure entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
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