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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid
Directed by	Randal Kleiser
Produced by	Albert Band, Stuart Gordon
Written by	Garry Goodrow (story & screenplay) Thom Eberhardt (screenplay) Peter Elbling(screenplay)
Starring	Rick Moranis Marcia Strassman John Shea Lloyd Bridges Robert Oliveri
Music by	Bruce Broughton
Cinematography	John Hora
Editing by	Harry Hitner
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	July 17, 1992
Running time	89 min.
Language	English
Preceded by	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Followed by	Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 Walt Disney Pictures movie starring Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski, reprising the role he had previously in the smash hit movie Honey, I Shrunk the Kids in 1989.

Also returning from the first film are Marcia Strassman as Wayne's wife, Diane, and their previously shrunken son Nick, who is again performed by Robert Oliveri. Newcomer Keri Russell adds to the fun as Mandy the babysitter who was supposed to be watching Adam but now is the one being watched by the giant who holds her and his older brother captive in his overalls' pocket. The antagonist to Wayne and his family is John Shea, as Dr. Charles Hendrickson, who wants the giant stopped at all costs and would like to take over Wayne's invention that is now owned by the major corporation they work for.

This film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, this time a direct-to-video movie Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. A TV show would also follow this movie in 1997, called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, but chronologically it would take place before this film occurred as Adam was nowhere to be found.

Contents 1 Cast 2 Plot 3 Quotes 4 Trivia 5 External links

• Rick Moranis as Wayne Szalinski
• Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski
• Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski
• Daniel Shalikar as Adam Szalinski
• Joshua Shalikar as Adam Szalinski
• Lloyd Bridges as Clifford Sterling
• John Shea as Dr. Charles Hendrickson
• Keri Russell as Mandy Park
• Ron Canada as Marshall Brooks
• Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski
• Michael Milhoan as Captain Ed Myerson
• Gregory Sierra as Terence Wheeler
• Leslie Neale as Constance Winters

The characters and setting are introduced at the beginning of the movie. Wayne Szalinzki is the father of a family of three: Amy, who is a college student; Nick, a high schooler; and Adam, a toddler. At the beginning of the movie, Amy and her mother leave to go to college together, so Wayne, Nick and Adam are left home. The introduction of the story centers on Nick and his attempts to make contact with his crush, Mandy; and Wayne's attempt at work to create an enlarging machine while being hampered by his snobby boss, Hendrickson.

One Saturday, Wayne returns to the lab with Nick and Adam to try an idea he has to make the machine work. Because Hendrickson denies him access, he sneaks in without permission. When no one is looking, Adam sneaks out of his seat with the bunny. However, when the process starts (with a broken glass), Wayne and Nick accidentally cause a power surge that destroy the system and Adam and the bunny end up being zapped with the ray. He returns to his seat before Wayne looks up, so he doesn't realize what he has done.

After Wayne returns home, he puts Adam in a high chair to feed him lunch and then leaves the room. Only then does Adam begin to grow. Fed with the power of the microwave oven, he suddenly grows to the height of a man-and more. Wayne and Nick see this, and then try to sneak back into the lab to return him to his normal size; however Hendrickson stops them for causing a power surge, so they have to return home.

Upon returning home, Wayne realizes that his wife, Diane, is back from taking Amy to college. Diane is informed of the problem, and is angry at first. After calming her down, Wayne decides to try to find his original shrink machine (from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) to shrink Adam back to normal. Wayne and Diane leave and Nick is left alone with the seven-foot toddler. While Nick and Adam are at home together, their babysitter, Mandy (who happens to be Nick's crush) arrives. Upon seeing Adam, she faints and Nick is forced to take her inside the house and tie her up in order to keep her from screaming.

While Nick is caring for Mandy, Adam is left alone watching TV. Fed by the electric power, he suddenly grows again and breaks through the wall of the house, now fifteen feet tall. While Nick and Mandy frantically search for him, he storms the neighborhood. Hendrickson finds out about Adam, and calls his boss, a man named Sterling. Adam is put in a large truck to try to contain him.

Wayne and Diane arrive home with the shrink machine at the same time Sterling arrives. Upon arriving, Sterling realizes what a good man Wayne is and fires Hendrickson; then he begins to talk with Wayne, thinking of a strategy to get Adam back to normal size.

Meanwhile, in the truck, Adam is fed by yet another electrical surge and escapes from the truck, now fifty feet tall, whereupon he presently picks up Nick and Mandy and puts them in his pocket. Then he starts roaming the highways. Wayne and Diane catch up with Adam, but are unable to shrink him using the machine because he will need to be still for twelve seconds. Adam walks past them, heading for Las Vegas.

Adam arrives in the city of Las Vegas, and immediately starts storming the streets in a Godzilla-type fashion. Many attempts are made to control him, none of them work. Finally, Diane decides that she needs to be enlarged to above Adam's size so that she can make him hold still for the machine. Meanwhile, Hendrickson tries to shoot Adam with a tranquilizer cartridge. After hitting him once, his helicopter is immediately stopped by a giant Diane. Diane then meets up with Adam and they are both shrunk back to normal size. Hendrickson tries to assure the Szalinzkis that the tranquilizer wouldn't hurt Adam. Diane doesn't buy it, however, and punches him, knocking him out.

Nick and Mandy, who had been in Adam's pocket when he was shrunk, fall out of the pocket and onto a stone ledge where Nick finally gets to talk to Mandy. Suddenly, Wayne realizes that they had forgotten to shrink the stuffed bunny along with Adam, which is still huge. The movie ends with an overjoyed Adam playing with a hundred-foot-tall "Big Bunny".

• Nick: (to the crowd after an enlarged Diane stopped the helicopter) That's my mom.

• Nick: (to Diane, who wants Adam to hug her) Easy, Mom!

• Mandy: (after seeing Adam's size) There's no way I'm changing those diapers.

• Wayne: All right, I confess. I did it
  Diane: Did what?
  (Adam comes to the front door)
  Adam: Peek-a-boo.
  (starts knocking on door)
  Wayne: I blew up the baby.
  (Diane faints)
  Adam: Mama, fell down. Mama.

• Adam: Guitar.
  Nick: Not my room!

• Nick: (to Mandy, who got scared) You're scaring him!

• This movie wasn't originally intended to be a follow up to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Originally titled "Big Baby" it was about a young toddler who grew to giant size by a freak accident involving a growth ray and eventually terrorized Las Vegas in a non-violent, yet Godzilla-esqe way. Disney saw the possibilities of making this into a follow up to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and re-wrote the script to relate it to the first film by making Adam a part of the Szalinski family and the invention of the big company related to Wayne's original prototype from the first film. This rewrite was originally called, "Honey, I Blew Up the Baby."^{[citation needed]}

• The yellow sports car Adam picks up and plays with in the scene in Las Vegas is a Lotus Elan M100.

• A few pop culture references are used during this movie:
  • The Ark of the Covenant, last "seen" in Raiders of the Lost Ark being put away in the gigantic government warehouse (in 1936), is now seen in the giant warehouse when Wayne finds the box containing his shrink ray. It is still in its original crate.
  • In a reference to Las Vegas icon performer, a husband comments to his wife that: "No one is bigger then Wayne Newton in this town!" just as the now 100 foot plus Adam arrives in Las Vegas. Adam bellows out a loud "Peek-a-boo!" The nervous husband then changes his mind seeing giant Adam and replies to his wife. "Of course.. I could be wrong.."
  • In a reference to a monster movie icon, a Japanese tourist couple exiting a casino looks up and points at the gigantic Adam before them, in Godzilla movie type fashion commenting in their native tongue: "It's Godzilla!" "No! It's a big baby!"
• At end of the movie there is a special music video on the videocassette.
• In this film, Wayne is seen inventing a new, seperate device for enlarging objects, as opposed to his orginal machine for shrinking them. However the first film shows that the original machine was already capable of shinking and enlarging objects.

• Honey, I Blew Up the Kid at the Internet Movie Database

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Films:	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids | Honey, I Blew Up the Kid | Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves | Honey, I Shrunk the Audience
Other:	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show | Walt Disney Pictures