HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (1989) ** It's a reasonably funny fantasy, but bears more bad news than good, I'm afraid. The best parts, the only really good parts, all have to do with Rick Moranis in ridiculous situations that lend themselves almost equally to stills. To stills, like the ones sitting there watching. The wild and unexpected success of the film at the box office, courtesy of the stills watching. Yeah, so what, the stills back everything that gets backed. But simplicity is not always simple. Rick Moranis is a fun actor, and no doubt a really cool guy, but he enjoys one absolutely unique characteristic: he naturally, invariably, quite nearly instantaneously endows us, the stills, with a superiority complex. That he does this despite the fact that he's obviously more talented than damn near any of us, if not all, is only a tribute to his unique faucet, facet. So there we all are, thinking how much smarter than he is we are, and payin' him to feel that way. 1989. And how 1989 of me to notice.
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