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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Walt Disney Video
Salesrank: 4164
Released: October 8, 2002 |
| Our Price: $8.86 |
| Used Price: $6.54 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Get set for the adventure of a lifetime in the #1 comedy hit of the year, HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS! 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! Directed by Academy Award(R)-winner Joe Johnston (Visual Effects, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, 1981), this record-breaking smash is full of amazing special effects, hilarious comedy, wild chases, and nonstop surprises!
Description of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids:
A deft balance between special effects, comedy, and family dynamics made this 1989 film a hit for Disney and spawned both a string of video sequels and a subsequent TV series. Moranis is endearing as the bumbling inventor/father of the Szalinski family. He inadvertently shrinks his own children then throws them out with the trash. They, along with the neighbor kids, must journey back across their own backyard, now an enormous, dangerous distance, to get back to the right height. Much is done with the perils of the lawn, from a wild deluge from the sprinklers to a nasty encounter with the lawnmower and numerous encounters with gigantic insects. A generally kid-friendly, inventive (no pun intended), and entertaining outing. --Keith Simanton
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Reviews:
Special Effects Galore 
2009-12-10 - I have no idea how long ago I watched this on The Disney Channel, and taped it onto a video and watched it umpteen times. Just recently, I was able to afford it on DVD and thoroughly enjoyed it once again. Inventor Wayne is having trouble with his shrinking machien that seems to blow things up until a neighbor boy hits a bseball through the attic wiindow, which lands in an area where the machine's beam pierces it, and suddenly objects become tiny, including both familes' sons and daughters. Thus begins a wild trek across the backyard encountering huge butterflies, bees, an ant and a scorpion. Both sets of parents fantically search for their children, unaware until later what has happened to them. Now Wayne, who had smashed his shrinking machine before knowing what it had accomplished, now has to put it back together so he can return the children to full size. The four kids try out a number of ways to get home, such as trying to hitch a ride on the family dog. I felt the kids looked very real to me in their tiny size, and found the large-scale objects they were filmed with very convincing. I had great fun watching it and know others will as well.
great 
2009-11-19 - THIS MOVIE IS A CLASSIC! Found it and it was a very low price! Only took a few days and it was in my dvd player!
The good old days of good family movie night fun/
2009-10-23 - These are the kind of movies kids and young teens need to watch growing up these days. I was raised watching movies like this and eventhough I'm 25 i still enjoy them. Now that i have a niece and nephew, I hope to watch these movies with them one day.
It was a fun family movie. 
2009-04-18 - Nothing really earth-shaking; just a cute science fiction story with some creative situations and easy humor. Characters interacted in a believable manner with good acting. One of Disney's better live-action movies.
fun family movie
2009-03-28 - This was one of my favorite Disney movies from my childhood. I saw it again recently on the Hallmark Channel (they show old Disney movies often).
The movie is about a wacky inventor who has invented a machine to shrink stuff. His experiments are unsuccessful until one weekend the machine accidentally shrinks his kids and his neighbor's kids.
The kids are then accidentally thrown out with the trash and have to make their way through the dangers of the backyard. This results in a fun adventure movie that the entire family will enjoy.
