``Innerspace'' Smartly sublimates science fiction, buddy movie, action, comedy, and a hodgepodge feel unique to the 1980s

*Information as of September 2018 article publication.

"Innerspace" synopsis

The greatest experiment of the century is about to begin at a research institute in the United States. Tak, a former pilot, enters an experimental pod and is reduced to microscopic size. It was supposed to be injected directly into the rabbit's body, but at that moment, a spy aiming for the microchip broke in. The director was cornered and fired the syringe in his hand at Jack, a man who was passing by...! !

Index

• A Hollywood blockbuster that shakes the viewer's sense of size
• Executive producer Spielberg. A great adventure exploring the “universe inside the body”
• Irregularly drawn “encounters” and buddy movies
• “Size change” drawn using visual tricks

A Hollywood blockbuster that shakes the viewer's sense of size

While watching a movie, it's common for memories of a completely different work to suddenly come to mind. In my case, it happened most recently with Ant-Man and the Wasp , which is currently in theaters. Even though the story and characters were not the same, the memories of the movie I watched as a child came back to me as if I had been struck by an electric current. What, this feeling... this memory... what kind of movie was that...?

It didn't take long before I heard the title ``Innerspace'' in my head. How nostalgic does that sound? This movie was released in 1987. The movie is already 31 years old. But why did I remember this movie? After watching this film again as an adult, I feel like I understand why.

Needless to say, both films have one thing in common: people become smaller. What still stirred my memory was the action scene of a car driving through the streets of San Francisco. In Innerspace, there is a story in which a villain changes his size to the size of a child for some reason and attacks the protagonist and heroine in the front seat from the back seat of a car. I felt as if I had wandered into this trick art, and the size of it gave me an irresistible shiver. That's probably why I was reminded of the nostalgic yet strange feeling of those days when I saw the lines of movement that ran through the same city while changing size in the latest film, Ant-Man and the Wasp .

Executive producer Spielberg. A great adventure exploring the “universe inside the body”