Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992) on Netflix

PG19921h 29mAdventure Comedy Family Romance Sci-Fi

Inventor Wayne Szalinski builds a machine that makes things grow, and his two-year-old son Adam is zapped by it. At home, Adam and his toy Big Bunny start to grow.

Netflix3.1/5
IMDb4.9/1049,923 votes
Rotten Tomatoes40%

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Inventor Wayne Szalinski lives in Nevada with his wife Diane, their teenage son Nick, college-bound daughter Amy and two-year-old Adam. Diane accompanies Amy to her dorm, so Wayne and Nick watch Adam. At Sterling Labs, Wayne demonstrates a machine that enlarges objects, testing it on Big Bunny, Adam's favorite toy. While Wayne and his son look away, Adam is zapped; the device short-circuits and the toy stays the same size. Back home, waves from the microwave make Adam and Big Bunny grow to seven feet. Wayne and Nick bring Adam to the laboratory to undo the effect, but Wayne's colleague Dr. Charles Hendrickson, who covets the invention, turns them away. Diane returns and joins the struggle to keep the oversized toddler from destroying the house.

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Jeremiah Chechik was hired to direct after Disney saw National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, but the studio removed him a few months into pre-production over concerns his ideas were too ambitious and costly, and hired Edward Feldman to handle most of producer Dawn Steel's on-set duties.
Alter, who had written a treatment called Now, That's a Baby! about the baby daughter of two scientists falling victim to a genetic experiment gone wrong, claimed several similarities with the film; the case went to trial in 1993, the jury found in his favor and Disney was forced to pay $300,000 in damages.
Casting director Renée Rousselot considered more than 1,000 small children for the role of Adam, searching for three- to four-year-old boys, but immediately cast the two-year-old twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar when she came across them in December 1990.
Feldman said the twins were initially "undirectable", adding, "We couldn't get them to respond or smile or do anything." The film crew retained them anyway, because a recasting would have cost $2 million.
Stunt double Alex Daniels played the seven-foot Adam wearing an oversized puppet head created by Kevin Yagher, studying videotapes of the twins to replicate their movements; Kleiser admitted that badly lit, "it came across as a giant Chucky doll!"
The giant-baby premise began as an unrelated script called Big Baby by Garry Goodrow and Peter Elbling, about a toddler grown to giant size who terrorized Las Vegas, inspired by The Amazing Colossal Man (1957); Gordon optioned it and Disney passed on it initially.