Innerspace (1987)

I enjoyed Innerspace immensely when it came out in the late 1980s. (Ah, the Eighties... Good times...) Martin Short plays Jack Putter, an overlooked nebbish -- his boss actually calls him a putz -- who becomes the unwitting host/partner to Dennis Quaid's Lt. Tuck Pendleton, a macho test pilot who has been miniaturized with his ship for what will be a Fantastic Voyage-style test run before he is accidentally injected into Jack's (um, if memory serves) left buttock. The ice queen saboteur (Fiona Lewis in her last role as Dr. Margaret Canker) and her cyborg agent (bit-part actor Vernon Wells as Mr. Igoe) make for cryptic and comic villains that still give me whoops of laughter. (He comes with detachable finger accessories that will slice, dice, spray, or frappe and she seems to have a thing for or with him!) The most hilarious scene is the tandem dance to "Twistin' the Night Away" before Jack and Tuck hold a strategy powwow. Jack also pines for Tuck's girl (Meg Ryan as Lydia Maxwell) and, in the muddle, gets to go places no man has been before. Innerspace is a hoot of a camp comedy that I can highly recommend esp. if you like men with Han Solo haircuts and girls with glam-rock hairstyles. See it if you liked Fantastic Voyage and loved Short Circuit! Rated PG for language, drinking, implied adult situations and Tuck's buck-naked caboose. Rated PG for language, drinking, implied adult situations and Tuck's buck-naked caboose. 4.5 stars.