'' is a
1989 Comedy Film released through
Walt Disney Pictures . It stars
Rick Moranis ,
Marcia Strassman , and
Matt Frewer .
Moranis plays "nutty"
Inventor Wayne Szalinski who perfects a machine capable of
Shrinking objects down to as little as
Microscopic size. When his two children and the neighbors' two sons enter the room in which the shrinking machine is located in order to retrieve a lost baseball, they manage to trigger it and take the full brunt of the shrinking
Laser . They spend the rest of the movie trying to get back to the house after accidentally being taken out with the trash. Since they are so tiny, the trip is an epic adventure filled with a number of obstacles including "giant"
Insects and a runaway
Lawn Mower . Towards the end of the movie, the children return to the house, where the youngest child of the Szalinskis, Nick, falls into Wayne's cereal and is nearly eaten by his father. One of the interesting aspects of the movie involved turning large objects into what would normally be small things, such as turning a tractor trailer tire into a cheerio.
In
1992 , Disney released the first sequel, ''
Honey, I Blew Up The Kid '', with Rick Moranis and Marcia Strassman reprising their roles as the Szalinskis. As the title suggests, Wayne succeeds in
Enlarging his two year old son to gigantic proportions as one of his size-changing experiments goes awry.
A
Three-dimensional Film called ''
Honey, I Shrunk The Audience '' complete with physical effects such as wind and water was created as an attraction at
Walt Disney World 's
Epcot in
1994 , and later
Tokyo Disneyland ,
Disneyland , and
Disneyland Paris . The attraction is a mock award show by "The Imagination Institute" that is intended to honor Szalinsky as "Inventor Of The Year." Instead, the audience is "shrunken" and threatened by a giant dog, a giant
Python and even a giant toddler, among other thrills. The attraction reprises most of the original cast and adds
Eric Idle as the host of the award show.
Disney produced ''
Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves '' in
1997 as a direct to video release. Only
Rick Moranis reprised his role in this film. Many new characters were added such as Wayne's brother and his family. This time, it is the parents who are reduced to minuscule size, and need to be rescued by their kids. Wayne's niece Jenny Szalinski was played by future ''
Smallville '' star
Allison Mack , and a friend by
Mila Kunis , later of ''
That '70s Show ''.
The last incarnation of the franchise was the '' (
1997 -
2000 ).
Peter Scolari took over as Wayne Szalinski. The show's plots involved other wacky Szalinski inventions (rarely the shrinking ray) that don't work quite as expected and land the family in some type of humorous mixed up adventure that they must figure how to recover from.
