The problems begin when the new matter-reducing machine created by nebbish genius Wayne Szalinski (Rick Moranis) is accidentally turned on his two kids (Amy O’Neill and Robert Oliveri) and the two neighbor kids (Thomas Brown and Jared Rushton). In other words, it’s a daffy excuse to unleash some nutty, oversize special effects. But Honey is more on the level of that 1960s TV series Land of the Giants. Pretorious in The Bride of Frankenstein to the existential dilemma of The Incredible Shrinking Man. It has been effective, from the teeny experiments of the devious Dr. It’s the latest entry in what seems to be a nearly foolproof genre, the genre of little humans trapped in a large universe.

While Batman is a more ambitious and visionary property, there is something less threatening about the benign gags of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, a new Walt Disney production. Louis, Always Patsy Cline (Welk), The Producers, Cinderella (Gateway Playhouse), Plaid Tidings (Walnut Street Theatre), Sweet Charity in Buenos Aires (Ace nomination).It will be interesting to see what the pint-size movie audience prefers during the next few weeks: the imaginative but rather dark visions of Batman, or the more innocuous, kiddie-scaled pleasures of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Recents: Jersey Boys (Phoenix Theatre Company), Catch Me If You Can (MTW/Moonlight), Cabaret (Gateway Playhouse), Mamma Mia (Ogunquit Playhouse/Welk), Nice Work If You Can Get It (MTW/Ogunquit Playhouse), Newsies (Moonlight), Greater Tuna, 6 Dance Lessons In 6 Weeks, Buyer & Cellar, Tru (Coyote StageWorks), Sunset Blvd., Titanic (Moonlight), 7 Brides For 7 Brothers (MTWichita), Hairspray, The Wedding Singer, Never Gonna Dance, The Thing About Men (MTW), Addams Family, Thoroughly Modern Millie (Performance Riverside), When You Wish, Love Makes The World Go Round (Phoenix Theatre), A Christmas Carol, Meet Me In St. LA Ovation Award Best Direction, Singin’ In The Rain. He directed the world premiere of Tony winner Joe DiPietro’s Falling For Eve, Off-Broadway at The York Theatre. LARRY RABEN (Director) For SDMT: Young Frankenstein (Craig Noel Award nom best director), and La Cage Aux Folles.

Frankenstein by Robert Horton