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Spielberg didn't direct this, but it has his fingerprints all over it. The king of schmaltz can't resist dumbing it all down and hamming it all up until he's sure all the kiddies will demand mum and dad take them to see it.

It didn't work this time; it bombed at the box office, and deservedly so. Trying to make a Sci-Fi and a comedy rolled into one just doesn't work. It didn't work here.

I feel a bit sorry for Dennis Quaid, I usually like his films, but nobody involved with this stinker had much choice, especially Dennis.

It didn't even work as fluffy, mindless entertainment, as some Spielberg films do, I just can't ignore the bad science and the misplaced humour.

I gave it a 3, simply because I managed to sit right through to the end.

Scientist gets miniaturized and injected to dupe, and then tells him how to act, leading to dramatic adventures, wacky comedy, and romantic entanglements.

And none of it works.

At times it looks like they're going for a bit of a Brazil vibe here, but that doesn't work, either.

I love Martin Short from SCTV and his later-career incarnation as a talk-show bon vivant. But he can't carry a movie with a wheelbarrow. Meg Ryan was an 80s flavor-du-jour. Likeable but forgettable. Dennis Quaid is Randy Quaid's brother.

I didn't have the patience to watch to the end but it wouldn't surprise me to find out a-ha's Take On Me played over the closing credits.

Is this the worst film ever made? Not quite. But it definitely is by no remote means a good movie. This movie is the perfect example of a generic 80s movie. It's got the same type of humor that you will have seen in about every other movie from this era. Practical effects that in high lighting don't hold up nearly as well as some people claim they do. You can clearly tell what parts are done by puppets, as certain objects simply move too quickly.

The reason this is truly a bad film however. Is because it practically wastes its own concept in favor of generic humor and other ridiculous concepts. Fantastic Voyage suffered from a different set of problems. (Mainly the human body is a boring place for a movie).

The villains are on a whole other level of stupidity in this movie. And I mean like the kind that anyone thinking for 2 seconds would be able to pick up on. Combine that with the constant on and off jumping around, and the plot line that is extended about a good 30-40 minutes than it should be? They dropped the ball pretty hard. It doesn't surprise me this film flopped at the box office. People were sick of the carbon stamped stuff that this movie showed.

One you can definitely skip. Save the 2 hours of your life and watch one of the films this movie ripped off of. Odds are it'll be better.