Innerspace

In 1987, Steven Spielberg and Joe Dante teamed up to bring us the smallest movie hero ever with Innerspace.  Starring a series of characters with 5 letters or less in their name, this movie features Tuck, Jack, Lydia, Igoe, Ozzy, Victor, Wendy, and an unnamed Cowboy as they are both willingly and unwillingly thrown into the world of misused miniaturization.  Randy Quaid’s much more handsome and shredded brother Dennis plays the alcoholic and suicidal Tuck Pendleton, a former navy officer who just doesn’t want to be big anymore, possibly because 80’s hairdo sporting Lydia can’t handle his shit anymore.  And don’t be phased by the fact that Tuck gets injected into Jack’s butt, this isn’t that kind of movie. With Tuck safely in Jack’s butt, we watch Jack go from Safeway bagboy to world-saving hero.  Featuring pint-sized villains, a detachable vibrator prosthetic, and Oscar-winning special effects, Innerspace was made for $27M, but only raked in $25 a the box office.  Still, this fun flick enjoyed a fairly positive critical reception that possibly suffered from bad marketing.  But does it hold up?  Listen as Jon, Colin and Brent try to performing for Meg Ryan with their shrunken vessels, or if Igoe slaps on a custom hand attachment and mysteriously pleasures them to death while little people digest in their bellies, causing a bad case of indigestion.