10 Things You Need To Know About The Making Of Honey I Shrunk The Kids

10 Things You Need To Know About The Making Of Honey, I Shrunk The Kids

One of Disney’s kookiest live-action movies, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids premiered in theaters in 1989. Here are some unknown facts about the film.

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Easily one of Disney’s kookiest live-action movies, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids premiered in theaters in 1989. The film is still well-loved over 30 years later. There couldn’t be a more self-explanatory title, and the first movie’s popularity spawned two more movies and a television series.

Watch Wayne Szalinski’s electromagnetic shrinking machine at work on Disney+ or Amazon Prime. Fans may love this throwback family film, but there are still some facts to learn about how the movie was made. Check them out while everyone waits to hear more about the next installment, Shrunk, starring Josh Gad.

10 For The Kids

The film’s creators, Stuart Gordon and Brian Yuzna, worked on horror films throughout the 1980s. According to SyfyWire, Gordon and Yuzna were at a backyard family barbecue in 1985 when they decided it was time to come up with a movie their children could enjoy.

They stepped into an imaginative, childlike point of view and eventually arrived at the idea for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Without that initial conversation, the movie might never have been made.

9 Working With Disney

Brian Yuzna told SyfyWire that the film “wasn’t meant to be an expensive movie, it was meant to be a cheap, a very low budget movie. For that reason, [the] offices weren’t even on the lot, and the movie was actually shot in Mexico.”

It sounds like there was some friction with Disney due to the budget constraints throughout the filming process.

8 Studying Up

In order to get their special effects right and make everything look convincing, the filmmakers studied works like The Incredible Shrinking Man and The Mysterious Island.

They were able to check out the mechanics of shrunken people and giant insects. Most fans of the film would say that the careful attention and studiousness paid off.

7 Homemade Sets

Set workers built everything for Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, even the life-sized blades of grass. This fact is likely tied to those budget issues with Disney.

Even if it was laborious for those who lugged those giant items all over the set, the homemade creations give the film its signature look, and it wouldn’t be the same without them.

6 Inspirations

With Wayne Szalinski’s failed inventions and the aura of a mad (but lovable) scientist, the film has some clear inspirations.

Brian Yuzna likened some of the flopped creations in the movie to those of Gremlins, and fans of Flubber certainly get similar vibes. Fred MacMurray from the original Flubber story (The Absent-Minded Professor) was even considered for the lead role.

5 Director Switch

Some fans may not be aware that co-creator Stuart Gordon was going to direct the film. Sadly, Gordon fell ill at the time and was unable to direct. Joe Johnston stepped in, and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is the first directorial credit on his IMDb profile.

Stuart Gordon passed away in March of 2020. Rolling Stone recalled a 1985 interview with the legend in which Gordon said, “There is a side of me that likes to break through clichés and wake people up. I find that fun. I think that’s part of what art is supposed to do — to make you see or experience things in ways that you haven’t before.” Gordon definitely achieved this artistic goal in his family-friendly story with Brian Yuzna.

4 The Shrink Ray

Fans of the HISTK franchise will definitely want to check out episode five of Prop Culture on Disney+. The behind-the-scenes series is hosted by prop collector and film historian Dan Lanigan. Lanigan speaks with archivist Rick Lorentz and learns that the shrink ray from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was actually used in all three existing movies of the franchise, but it was modified each time it was used.

After production concluded, the ray was sent to Disney’s MGM Studios in Disney World. Perhaps it will be dusted off for the upcoming new film! Director Joe Johnston told Dan Lanigan that it was important for the shrink ray to look like “a mad scientist put it together.”

3 Inventions & Souvenirs

Dan Lanigan also got to talk with HISTK’s property master, Brad Einhorn. Einhorn developed some of the movie’s quirky treasures, like the dog feeder and the coffee machine, and pitched them to Joe Johnston.

The prop master pulled out original sketches and recalled the movie’s working title, Teeny Weenies. Brad even showed off his prized possession from the film: the baseball with the laser burn.

2 Puppets

Dan continued his wild goose chase for insider info on the film with miniatures supervisor David Sosalla and learned about the use of animatic kid puppets and an Antie model as tools to imagine how the real-life shots would play out.

The finished work is a product of technologies quite different from those of today. The large-form Antie was too early for CGI, so technicians had to manually operate the giant puppet.

1 Comedy

When Dan Lanigan interviewed Rick Moranis for Prop Culture, Moranis revealed that he was always trying to infuse his character with more comedy while filming Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Back in 1989, Moranis went on David Letterman to promote the movie and called himself the “Fred MacMurray of the 90s.”

1989 was a huge year for Moranis with the additional premieres of Ghostbusters II and Parenthood, but his work as Wayne Szalinski still shines three decades later, and fans cannot wait to see him reprise his role.

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