8The Tar HeelThursday, July 6,
1989
'Kids' a
By RANDY BASINGER
and JEFF KIEL
Staff Writer
"Excuse me, sir," we asked the
attendant. "Did they shrink the adults
in this theater?"
"No," came the reply. 'This is a
kid's movie."
And so it was. Munchkins to the
left of us, Fidgets to the right of us.
We took our seats among the little
people, wading through many a
moppet and prepared ourselves for
this fine feature film.
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" was
preceded by the cartoon short
'Tummy Trouble," starring the whole
gang from last year's smash hit "Who
Framed Roger Rabbit?," and brought
back the days of old when cartoons
were shown before the feature film.
Though this cartoon leaves much to
be desired, Disney is to be com
mended for bringing back the added
attraction.
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movie for young,
and Co. (or Bugs Bunny and the Road
Runner), you will find much of
Roger's routine unoriginal. The story
line follows Baby Herman as he
swallows a rattle, is taken to St.
Nowhere hospital for some shenani
gans, and Roger, in turn, is crushed,
poked and exploded. The most no
table scene has a guest appearance
by Droopy the dog with some social
commentary on violence in cartoons.
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" is, as
we have said before, a film for the
tykes among us. Therefore, only those
children at heart, those college stu
dents who never grew up, and those
with younger brothers and sisters
should go see this film.
Jeffs little brother called this one
a four-bathroom movie. Now don't
mistake the bathroom rating for the
star rating those real movie guys
(Siskel and Ebert, our heroes) give
out. This means that your small ones
will need four bathroom breaks dur
ing the hour and a half this feature
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runs. You would prefer that the movie
have a one-bathroom rating, but then
you may end up with a wet child on
your hands, and that's worse than
missing part of the movie.
Plot summary: Mr. Szalinski (Rick
Moranis, the film's most notable star)
is an inventor who is working on a
shrink ray so NASA can shrink satel
lites and stuff to get more junk into
space. Unfortunately, he is so wrapped
up in his work, that he has ignored
his family and it is falling apart. If he
can get the machine to work, he feels
the family will be rich and things
will be better. Unfortunately all the
machine can do is take whole apples
and create apple sauce we're talk
ing apple plasm.
Anyway, Moranis' family is con
sidered the weird and nerdy family
Herzenberg
said. "I don't think there's any
hanky-panky going on but, consider
ing growth is a major issue, I think
citizens should know what our per
sonal real estate holdings are.
"People will say that some mem
ber of the council will vote a particu
lar way because he or she is an em
ployee of the University. Or, there's
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by the next-door neighbor, who Mo
ranis feels is a dumb jock. Talk about
strained relations. Mr. Thompson is
played convincingly by Matt Frewer
(of "Max Headroom" fame), and he
is planning to take the family on a
fishing trip, but his son Russ, who is
looking for his nook in life, doesn't
want to go.
Russ Thompson's younger brother,
Ron (Josh Baskin's buddy in "Big"),
is the athletic one, and while he is in
the backyard hitting the baseball, he
knocks a grand slam into Szalinski's
lab and starts the shrinking ray. Both
Russ and Ron go next door (Russ has
a hormonal crush on Amy, Szalinski's
daughter), and it ends up Ron and
Nick (Szalinski's nerdy son) go up to
the room and get zapped by the ray
gone mad. Russ and Amy go upstairs
a belief that developers give large
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didates and that influences their votes.
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to check on the missing siblings and
they get smoked by the machine, too.
Ron Thompson sums it up well
when he exclaims, "We've been
shrunk to the size of boogers."
Szalinski comes home, dejected
after being laughed out of his presen
tation of the shrinking ray, and
smashes the machine. He sweeps up
the scattered parts along with his chil
dren and takes them out with the trash.
The kids cut their way out of the
plastic bag and find they must cross
the backyard, which to them is a
jungle. Thus the story goes.
The special effects are great. The
insects come alive. You really be
lieve that Nick and Russ are trapped
for a ride on a bee, and there are
some touching moments with an ant.
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cil in 1979, when he was a graduate
student at the University. "There are
15,000 students in Chapel Hill and
those people are citizens of the town.
My main regret is that they aren't
more integrated in the community as
a whole," he said. "Students are an
enormous reserve of talent to this
town."
Time will test how well the posi
tion of student liaison to the Chapel
Hill Town Council works, Herzen
berg said. The position gives students
a way of serving the town and learn
ing more about local government, he
said. "Even though I had some initial
reservations, I think (the position) is
an excellent idea," he said.
The relationship between the town
and the University is changing,
Herzenberg said. "I grew up in a
company town ... and certainly Chapel
Hill has many of the ingredients," he
said. "We're not terribly interested
in having another major employer in
the town although we are inter
ested in having more businesses that
are compatible with the University."
The University's attitude has im
proved, Herzenberg said. "The Uni
versity in the past has often run rough
shod over the views of the citizens,
particularly of people living in neigh
borhoods adjacent to the campus,"
Herzenberg said. But the outcry that
followed the University's announce
ment of plans for new roads in 1987
has changed that, he said.
"I think the University, especially
under the leadership of (Chancellor)
Paul Hardin, realizes it may be the
biggest player but (that) there are
other players," Herzenberg said.
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