Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

June 1989

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Synopsis

Rick Moranis stars as a preoccupied inventor who just can't seem to get his electro-magnetic shrinking machine to work. Then, when he accidentally shrinks his kids down to one-quarter-inch tall and tosses them out in the trash, the real adventure begins! Now the kids face incredible dangers as they try to make their way home through the jungle of their own backyard! Hurricane sprinklers! Dive-bombing bees! A runaway lawn mower and much, much more!

Reviews

4.2

274 total

5 159

4 63

3 27

2 10

1 15

Variety Staff

[It's] in the best tradition of Disney -- and even better than that, because it is not so juvenile that adults won't be thoroughly entertained.

Derek Adams

Sterling entertainment...

Caryn James

As sweet, straightforward and funny as its title.

Rita Kempley

Though it relies on special effects, this cutie-pie caper never loses sight of the protagonists amid the bigger-than-life Cheerios and 40-foot blades of grass.

Roger Ebert

The special effects are all there, nicely in place, and the production values are sound, but the movie is dead in the water.

A Google User

BUYER BEWARE - DOESN'T WORK I try to play this video and all i get is a message: "This video contains content from Disney. It is not available." I have contacted google five times spanning a period of over ten days. All I've received is an automated message saying they received my problem report. No response from a human being. No refund. There is no customer service - at all. I strongly recommend everyone stay far, far away from google for their video needs. This is coming from someone who has used practically all of google's services for the past ten years. Most of their services are free so I have always been patient dealing technical issues - especially because I appreciate the open nature of much of their work. But this is just plain unacceptable. I paid money for a service I did not receive and I'm unable to even bring it to the attention of a human being, much less get a refund. Epic fail, google. These kinds of shenanigans are going to cost you big time with even your most loyal user base. I know for sure that I will be very wary in the future of spending money for services from google since I now know I can't trust them to actually provide it.

Critic reviews

Variety Staff

[It's] in the best tradition of Disney -- and even better than that, because it is not so juvenile that adults won't be thoroughly entertained.

Full Review

Derek Adams

Sterling entertainment...

Full Review

Caryn James

As sweet, straightforward and funny as its title.

Full Review

Rita Kempley

Though it relies on special effects, this cutie-pie caper never loses sight of the protagonists amid the bigger-than-life Cheerios and 40-foot blades of grass.

Full Review

Roger Ebert

The special effects are all there, nicely in place, and the production values are sound, but the movie is dead in the water.

Full Review

User reviews

A Google User May 2, 2012

A Google User April 22, 2012

Disappointing service - doesn't work - don't waste Doesn't work. All I get is, "This video contains content from Disney. It is not available." Using Google Chrome from my home in Maryland USA with a 25 MBPS connection - you would hope that is not a very challenging delivery scenario. Tried refreshing the browser, clearing the cache, logging off and back on, and even another browser. Interesting that I am not the only one and that there is a ready filled box with this type of error in the feedback system. Obviously this is a known problem and yet, before I try to watch and download the movie there is no warning that it may not work. Try explaining that to very excited children. Very disappointing service. When I spend my limited time following the advertising hype of Google, look at the offerings, get some buy-in from my children and then find it doesn't work as advertised, I feel misled, disappointed and unhappy. I can't recommend investing time in getting into this service with its inability to deliver.

Sam Rothermel April 2, 2014

A fun little classic from the creative heyday of the Disney 80s Some of the effects may be lost on the youth of today but for those of us that lived through it the movie is a pretty amazing feat (the production design notwithstanding; massive grass blades and Legos are awesome whoever you are). Give it a look for a lot of fun.

A Google User October 5, 2012

Sad but distracting A little too predictable and sadly did nothing to exploit Rick Moranis' talent.

Mark Dickinson March 30, 2014

Works great, even the HD Just wanted to let recent shoppers know that whatever may have been wrong with his item in the past, it's fine now. We rented it for the kids this past weekend and it worked fine. The HD transfer is even very good - much better picture than 25+ years ago when I last saw this movie. No problems at all and a fun movie, too.

A Google User April 27, 2012

Doesn't work!! All it says "not available in this country!" I want a refund!

A Google User July 30, 2012

Honey i shrunk kids Fun

A Google User April 22, 2012

Doesn't work "NOT AVAILABLE IN YOUR COUNTRY" is the message I get.....lame.Country= USA. Enjoy my money I guess.

Madison Sharpe May 15, 2014

Amazing One of the best 80's movie around!!!

Kevin Butts Jr February 18, 2014

Great movie I watched this tooo much as a kid and still love it. Classic!

A Google User May 9, 2014

Movie Works! Just bought this movie and it plays fine, not sure why other people had problems with it.

Alejandro Trejo January 26, 2014

Alejandro Casi la musica es de terror or what ever

A Google User April 21, 2012

Cool Dis is a super goood and bad movie read the book

Preston Kruse October 5, 2014

Preston Love the movie. Always a flashback to the youth days.

A Google User August 16, 2012

Awesome So use to live this when I was a kid.

Megan Rendon July 10, 2014

Loves it

Ivan Figueroa June 29, 2014

One of my tops This was/is one of my top favorite movies

Kylie Pipes December 26, 2013

Hey hey hey Best movie ever

Nyairi B December 10, 2013

Good It is very funny because when the kid said mommy sleepy mommy fall down

A Google User April 22, 2012

Great Oh the childhood memories

Cast and credits

Actors	Rick Moranis
Producers	Penney Finkelman Cox
Director	Joe Johnston
Writers	Stuart Gordon, Brian Yuzna, Ed Naha, Tom Schulman

Additional information

Rotten tomatoes® score

75%

Audio language

English (Stereo)

Subtitles

English

Rental period

Start within 30 days, finish within 72 hours.

Info cards

Enabled

Run time

93 minutes

Rating

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