Honey, I Blew Up the Kid

1992
PG
1h 29m

IMDb RATING

4.9/10

48K

YOUR RATING

The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.

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The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.The Szalinski family is back, this time hilarious disaster strikes when an experiment causes their new toddler son to grow many stories tall.

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IMDb RATING

4.9/10

48K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 10 nominations

Trivia
Much of the the dialogue between Wayne and Adam, such as the bedtime story and feeding time, was improvised by Rick Moranis in response to whatever Daniel Shalikar and Joshua Shalikar, the twins who played Adam, happened to say.

Goofs
The final scene--and the punchline--of the first film features the shrinking machine in reverse, and the family feasts on enlarged food. In fact, reversing the effects of the machine is how the kids went from tiny to normal size. In the second film, Wayne is working for a company that is testing a completely different machine that will enlarge things, and the shrink machine is in storage. It is never explained why simply reversing his shrink machine wasn't the answer.

Quotes
Diane: There's one thing every little kid knows. Daddies mean fun; mommies mean business.

Crazy credits
Adam's laugh can be heard after end credits

Alternate versions
Many scenes were omitted for its theatrical release version, but added to its TV version:
More scenes of Nick and Mandy running through neighborhood looking for Adam
Mean magician neighbor pulling colored handkerchiefs out of her coat
After Adam pulls ad sign out from ground and drops it, he steps on it
After Nick gives Mandy a giant raisin, he tells her to relax because they're headed for Vegas
After Adam catches the car with Nick and Mandy in it, he talks to them before stuffing them in his pocket
Diane giving Wayne reasons why she should be enlarged to save Adam
More scenes of Adam talking to the crowd below when he arrives in Vegas
More scenes of the TV reporter explaining situation with Adam when he first arrives at desert highway and when he's playing "Hard Rock Cafe" guitar.

Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: A Stranger Among Us/Man Trouble/Honey, I Blew Up the Kid/Cool World/The Hours and Times (1992)

Soundtracks
Loco-Motion
Written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King

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King Baby!

That affable, amiable, absent minded professor family man Wayne (Rick Moranis) is back, but now his experiments in size are funded by a big time company and he's a hot property. Unfortunately, his new toddler son, Adam, is the one who gets zapped this time, but instead of shrinking, he's turned into a toddler of Godzilla proportions. If you thought Wayne's wife was unhappy with Wayne shrinking their older son Nick and daughter Amy (who only cameos here) in the first film, just wait till you see her lose it here when she finds out her little boy Adam here! Now it's a race against time for Wayne to shrink Adam back down to size before he's destroyed by an uncaring society, with help from his now teenage son Nick and his girlfriend, Kerri Russell before she hit it big with "Felicity".

May strain the cuteness for some, will warm the hearts of others. Followed by a direct to video sequel that's not even worth the price of rental.