Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
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Short description
Wayne Szalinski, the scientist who once accidentally shrank his children, has turned his attention to the opposite problem. Working on a machine designed to enlarge objects, he brings his young son Adam along to see the device, and the toddler wanders into its path when it unexpectedly activates. Adam survives the accident but begins growing at an alarming rate, along with the stuffed bunny he was holding, leaving his family to cope with a child whose size quickly outpaces their home and their ability to hide him.
Randal Kleiser directed the film, which followed White Fang in his filmography and arrived in cinemas in July 1992. Rick Moranis returns as Wayne, with Marcia Strassman as Diane and Robert Oliveri as Nick, while Adam is played by the twin brothers Daniel and Joshua Shalikar. Lloyd Bridges appears as Clifford Sterling, and the screenplay is credited to Garry Goodrow, Thom Eberhardt and Peter Elbling.
Produced by Walt Disney Pictures with a budget of around 40 million dollars, the film took in roughly 59 million dollars worldwide. Its reception has been modest: it holds a rating of 4.9 on IMDb from about 49,000 votes and 5.3 on TMDB from around 1,300 votes, with a critics' rating of 4.8 from 21 reviews, indicating that audiences and critics alike received it coolly.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film debut of fifteen-year-old Kerry Russell at the time.
- Amy Zalinski, who was one of the main characters in the original film, received so little screen time due to the initial script concept, which envisioned only one key female role – Adam's nanny. The creators resolved this by showing her leaving the house and going to college at the very beginning of the film. For the same reason, none of the Thompson family appeared in the sequel.
- The scene where the giant Adam is about to put a car in his mouth, and Nick shouts to him, "Adam, don't eat us," serves as a kind of reference to a similar episode in the original film. In it, Nick, in the same situation but with his father, said, "Dad, don't eat me."
- After the film's release, Disney received a lawsuit accusing it of plagiarism from one of the leading television shows, whose creator came up with the idea of a baby enlarged many times over while watching his little granddaughter destroy structures made of building blocks. He wrote a script that was later revised but remained unused. The studio preferred to settle the matter amicably.
- Filming period: June 17th – October 4th, 1991.
- Initially, the film was not intended to be a sequel at all. The working title was "Big Baby," and the plot centered on an infant who grew to enormous size after accidentally falling into a growth ray field and then terrorizing nighttime Las Vegas. Disney saw a favorable opportunity to make the film a continuation of its hit, and the script was rewritten.
- In the secret storage facility of the laboratory, one can notice such unusual items as Charles Kane's sled from "Citizen Kane" (1941) and the Ark of the Covenant from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981).
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