Overlooked Movies: Innerspace

Here's the pitch: Fantastic Voyage meets All of Me.  Starring Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, and Meg Ryan, with some great character actors filling out the bill.  I've said several times that I thought Quaid would become a major star after certain movies.  This is another of them, but Martin Short also gives a great performance.  I thought he'd go on to stardom, too.  Didn't happen.  Maybe he never got the right role.  Meg Ryan is great, too, and she did become a big name, for a while, anyway.

What happens is that Quaid is reduced to microscopic size and put in a vehicle not unlike the one in Fantastic Voyage.  He's supposed to be injected into a bunny, but things happen and he winds up in Short.  There's a gang of master criminals.  There's a mcguffin (a computer chip).  There's pantomime and dancing (a great scene).  There are chases, escapes, and romance.  There's kissing, which is how Quaid winds up in Ryan for a while.  There's slapstick. There's more shrinkage.  There are two versions of "Twistin' the Night Away" (Sam Cooke and Rod Stewart).

Judy and I saw this in the theater and found it exhilarating.  The great final scene will put a smile on your face and a song in your heart.  Or maybe not.  You might be one of the curmudgeons who doesn't like this movie.  But I like it a lot.