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335:, a now ten-year-old Adam wants to go to baseball camp. However, his interest in sports seems almost alien to Wayne, although Diane is more understanding. Meanwhile, their other children, Amy and Nick, are away at college. Wayne has started his own lab, Szalinski Labs, with his brother, Gordon. One day, they receive tickets to witness a shuttle landing, but Diane reminds him over the phone that he needs to watch Adam and his cousins, Jenny and Mitch, while she and Gordon's wife Patti go on vacation; she also reminds him to get rid of a Tiki Man sculpture they keep in the house that she sees as an eyesore, though he considers it a good luck charm. 373:
respect. Angered, he returns to his friends and they begin to wreak havoc in the living room. Mitch, severely weakened, enters the kitchen and discovers Patti and Diane on the counter before fainting, partially from his failure to take his medicine, and partially from the shock of seeing his miniature mother and aunt. Adam and Jenny discover him, and thinking quickly, Adam gets potassium-rich bananas to give to him, and he begins to recover, weakly saying he had seen his mother. In the living room, Adam stands up to Ricky before Wayne rewires the stereo so that Gordon can talk and amplify his voice. With this, he pretends to be the voice of
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stood up to Ricky and took care of Mitch, while Wayne tells Adam that he can have an interest in sports, and agrees to sign him up for baseball camp. Diane tells Wayne she won't sweat the "small" stuff anymore, and says he can keep the Tiki Man, while he decides to relinquish his presidency of Szalinski Labs to Gordon and return to inventing.
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any accidents with the kids. However, after carelessly not turning it off immediately after they succeed, Wayne and Gordon are shrunk when a billiard ball left on it falls onto the activating button, just as they are in front of it searching for the Tiki Man. Meanwhile, Patti realizes she forgot to leave Mitch's medicine for his
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After Diane and Patti leave, Wayne and Gordon have activities planned that bore the kids. Wayne sends them to the store, but reveals to Gordon that it is a ruse to get rid of them long enough so that he can use his shrinking machine in order to shrink the Tiki Man without Diane's knowledge, and spare
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In the attic, the kids discuss the benefits of leaving their parents shrunk briefly before deciding they love them more than that, so they unshrink them to give them a chance to re-evaluate their parenting methods. Patti confides her trust in Jenny, telling her how proud she is of her for how she
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Meanwhile, Wayne and Gordon decide to rewire the stereo to work as a microphone. A group of boys begin to crash the party, including Jenny's crush, Ricky King. He takes her into the kitchen, where he steals a kiss from her, but she spurns him for not asking permission first, thus earning Patti's
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Seeing Mitch struggling, Patti realizes that they need to get him his medicine soon, or he could pass out. He ignores his weaknesses, though, and goes downstairs. The adults witness the arrival of Jenny's friends and decide to use a bubble machine in order to get downstairs. Diane and Patti land
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with its leg caught in a spider web. As Patti tries to cut the web with a nail file, Diane talks to it, and realizes her own insecurities about being small as she relates to it, which she had earlier tried to kill, and realizes how hard it is to be that size; after it is freed, Patti and Diane
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In the end, life is back to normal again. Adam returns home from baseball camp, Wayne has developed a new respect for baseball, and the Tiki Man has been moved into the backyard and enlarged to twice the height of the house.
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rated it three stars out of five, writing, "Some of the effects are a bit ropey, but it keeps the energy up and the kids should still enjoy it." However, McCabe considered the plot to be derivative of the first two films.
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magazine, revealing to Wayne that Adam's interest is not in science as he hoped. The four suddenly encounter a cockroach, but manage to defeat it by luring it into a bug trap.
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ending up in a clean load that is delivered back upstairs by Adam and Mitch. They tumble out of the laundry basket when it is overturned, and discover Adam and Mitch reading a
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also found it lacking originality, and wrote that the special effects "in general are excellent, but the vital sense of wonder is largely lost in the small-screen medium".
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Home video sales were successful in the first month of release, selling an estimated 1.5 million copies. However, critical reception was mostly negative. According to
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In the kitchen, when Patti and Diane resolve to find a way up the counter in order to find Mitch's medicine and push it into view, they encounter a
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called the story "fast enough for young viewers and interesting enough for adults," due to "a generous amount" of special effects. Bob McCabe of
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and orders Ricky and his friends to leave, leading Adam, Mitch and Jenny to realize what has happened to them.
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stars as inventor Wayne Szalinski, and is the only returning cast member from the previous films.
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safely, but Wayne and Gordon fall into a bowl of onion dip and are nearly devoured by the girls.
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wrote that the film "has little of the quality boasted by" its predecessors. Conversely,
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as Wayne Szalinski. He is the only returning actor from the other films in the franchise.
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as Wayne's wife, Diane Szalinski. Their youngest son Adam, now a pre-teen, is played by
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realize they can cling to its silk as it climbs up onto the counter.
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as Patricia "Patti" Szalinski, Gordon's wife and Diane's best friend
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race track, but they overshoot their target and fall down the
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reissue was produced and distributed under its current name,
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as Mitchell "Mitch" Szalinski, Gordon and Patti's son
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Index


Dean Cundey
Karey Kirkpatrick
Nell Scovell
Joel Hodgson
Stuart Gordon
Brian Yuzna
Ed Naha
Rick Moranis
Eve Gordon
Bug Hall
Robin Bartlett
Stuart Pankin
Allison Mack
Jake Richardson
Michael Tavera
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Home Video
Buena Vista Home Video
science fiction
comedy film
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film series
directorial debut
Dean Cundey
Honey, I Shrunk the Audience!
Walt Disney Pictures
direct-to-video
Walt Disney Home Video
Rick Moranis
Eve Gordon

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