Innerspace

This film is definitely in the category of all time childhood favorite movies. When you are young and your Mother loves introducing new movies to you, but at the same time has a high moral code for things her young kids should not see, there are few films that really got wore out in my house. That's not necessarily true. Films back in the '80's films were cleaner and even the bad ones weren't as bad as some of today's PG-13 flicks. We must've watched this tape 50 times. It is a brilliant story with good action and great comedy. I love Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, along with the 1980's brilliance of Martin Short, this film starts off with a bang, takes a strange turn, then keeps going 100 MPH until the very end. As for the image posted for this film, I usually don't like to use movie posters. I like to use images that meant something in the film. It usually is an image that wasn't even seen in the trailer, but I had never seen this picture anywhere. It is so funny, especially since the space ship (Inner space ship, that is) was not actually ingested (Well, I guess there was the kissing scene), but much worse than that, he is injected into the buttocks of Martin Short's character Jack Putter. When pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers for a science/life/history changing experiment he is just cocky enough to think, "Hey, what could go wrong?" He believes in it so much he loses his girlfriend because he won't change. When the shrunken pilot, who is already in the vile ready to be injected into a scientist for evaluation of the project, something goes terribly wrong. Some bad dudes want the tech for themselves. They barge into the lab and before you know it, Tuck is not in the correct body. A quick thinking scientist who doesn't want this to end up in the wrong hands thinks on his feet. He is gonna die, but before that he injects Tuck into Jack. Jack is a grocery store clerk with a hypochondriac disorder. Tuck has now started his mission, but doesn't know how escalated the situation has become. While navigating Jack's body he needs to be able to talk with his host, see what the host sees, and hear what he hears. This takes a couple of super invasive procedures from Tuck. When Tuck first syncs up to Jack's eardrums, it seems absolutely painful from Jack's perspective, but Short sells it so hilariously. Now that Jack and Tuck can communicate, they quickly figure out that this is not right. They must quickly find out what happened and retrieve the second half of the serum which would regenerate Tuck. First though, he needs to see what's going on. He basically stabs Jack in the back of the eyeballs which looks tremendously painful yet again. The physical comedy thrown into a plot based on thrilling conspiracies and science fiction is a nice additive. Jack needs help from Lydia (Meg Ryan), the disgruntled girlfriend from earlier in the post. He has to convince her Tuck is inside him. Which from a woman's perspective, she probably felt extremely betrayed knowing that less than a week after their breakup, Tuck was already "inside" another human. Jack is able to convince her through very personal details Tuck tells him to say. Now the objective is getting him out of Jack, but how? Kissing. Jack gets to smooch Lydia in the name of science to try and transfer Tuck to a new host. For Lydia it's just something that has to be done, for Jack this is the hottest woman he has ever or probably will ever kiss, so he embraces it. It doesn't work exactly as planned and he remains back in Jack. Tuck is quickly running out of oxygen and this must be resolved soon or he is a dead man. Great action rounds out the movie along with an appearance changing display by Jack that is also funny. Like I said, I love this movie and haven't watched it in about a year, but that will soon be remedied.


NBM rates Innerspace - A Work of Cinematic Art


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