Honey, I Blew Up the Kid movie storyline. Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn’t quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny. Now, whenever Adam comes near anything electrical, the electricity causes him to grow. Adam soon starts to grow to the height of over 100 feet. And he is now walking through Las Vegas which he thinks is one big play land.
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American comedy science fiction film and the sequel to the 1989 film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Robert Oliveri and Amy O’Neill, who reprise their roles as Wayne, Diane, Nick, and Amy Szalinski respectively, as well as newcomer Keri Russell as Mandy Park, Nick’s love interest and babysitter of Adam, the Szalinskis’ new two-year-old son, whose accidental exposure to Wayne’s new industrial-sized growth machine causes him to gradually grow to enormous size. Made only three years after Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, this film is set five years after the events depicted in the previous film. It was filmed in 1990.
The antagonist to the Szalinskis is Dr. Charles Hendrickson (John Shea), who wants the giant Adam stopped at all costs and would like to take over Wayne’s invention that is now owned by the major corporation they work for, which is in turn owned by the kind Clifford Sterling (Lloyd Bridges). This film would be followed by one last sequel in 1997, this time a direct-to-video film, Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. A TV show would also follow the film in 1997, called Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
The film was not originally written as a sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Originally titled Big Baby, it was about a toddler who grew to giant size by a freak accident involving a growth ray and eventually terrorized Las Vegas in a non-violent, yet Godzillaesque way. Disney saw the possibilities of making this into a sequel to Honey and rewrote the script. Whereas most of the characters from Big Baby were rewritten as characters from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, there was no character in the original that “Amy Szalinski” could replace, so she is seen going away to college in the beginning of the film.
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Directed by: Randal Kleiser
Starring: Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Lloyd Bridges, Robert Oliveri, John Shea, Ron Canada, Keri Russell, Amy O’Neill, Gregory Sierra, Leslie Neale, Julia Sweeney
Screenplay by: Garry Goodrow, Thom Eberhardt, Peter Elbling
Production Design by: Leslie Dilley
Cinematography by: John Hora
Film Editing by: Harry Hitner, Michael A. Stevenson
Costume Design by: Tom Bronson
Set Decoration by: Dorree Cooper
Art Direction by: Ed Verreaux
Music by: Bruce Broughton
MPAA Rating: PG for frenetic action.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: July 17, 1992
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