Innerspace 1987

Janet Maslin, New York Times: It has been made in a style best described as enthusiastic. Read more

Pat Graham, Chicago Reader: The plot is standard fantasy-adventure pulp, though director Joe Dante has so many screwball things going on in it that the comedy all but overwhelms the formulaic line of action. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Here is an absurd, unwieldy, overplotted movie that nevertheless is entertaining - and some of the fun comes from the way the plot keeps laying it on. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: While the anatomical special effects are imaginative enough, the manic rather than magical tone fails to achieve the sense of awe that made Fantastic Voyage -- clearly this film's inspiration -- so fascinating. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Short has infinitely more possibilities and makes the most of them, coming into his own as a screen personality as a mild-mannered little guy who rises to an extraordinary situation. Read more

Hal Hinson, Washington Post: It's an easy-to-get-along-with movie -- bouncy, rabbity fun. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Innerspace is significant for one thing -- the establishment of Martin Short as the funniest new kid on the Hollywood block. Too bad that's not enough for the sensation-a-second makers of Innerspace. Read more