Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American science fiction comedy family film sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and the second installment of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids film series. Directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures, it stars Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O’Neill, and Robert Oliveri reprising their roles as the Szalinski family, as well as newcomer Keri Russell in her film debut. In the film, Adam Szalinski, the youngest addition to the family, is accidentally exposed to Wayne’s new industrial-sized growth machine, which causes him to gradually grow to enormous size. Wayne’s coworker, Dr. Charles Hendrickson, wants the giant Adam stopped at all costs, and would like to take over Wayne’s invention, which is now owned by the large coorporation belonging to the kindly Clifford Sterling.

The franchise continued with a direct-to-home video sequel, a television series, and theme-park attractions.
The film was not originally written as a sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.[citation needed] Originally titled Big Baby, it was about a toddler who grew to giant size by a freak accident involving a growth ray and eventually terrorized Las Vegas in a non-violent, yet Godzillaesque way. Disney saw the possibilities of making this into a sequel to the first film and rewrote the script.[citation needed] The main characters from Big Baby became the Szalinski family, but there was no character in the original that Amy Szalinski could replace, so she leaves for college at the beginning of the film and is not seen again.[citation needed]

Prior to this, sequel development was offered to screenwriter and teacher David Trottier.[3]

Casting
Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O’Neill, and Robert Oliveri all return as their respective characters: Wayne, Diane, Amy, and Nick Szalinski. Amy, now a young woman, leaves for her first year of college at the beginning of the film. Nick, while still considered “nerdy”, has matured in his personality and takes more interest in girls and guitars.

Casting director Renee Rousselot searched over 1,000 small children for someone to portray Adam, the newest addition to the Szalinski clan. She searched for mostly three- to four-year-old boys because a younger child was thought to be problematic. She came across twins Daniel and Joshua Shalikar from New Jersey and immediately cast them in December 1990. One would act in the morning while the other was eating lunch or taking a nap. Baby consultant Elaine Hall Katz and director Randal Kleiser would plan the twins’ scenes a week in advance. Tom Smith reported that, “On his own, Dan was almost too adventuresome to repeat one move, and Josh seemed very cautious. Put them together and they could do anything.” However, the film did have difficulties in working with such small children, and one crew member later remarked it was “like playing hopscotch on hot coals”.[4] At the time, the twins were scheduled to appear in two more Honey films.[citation needed] They did appear once, but were recast in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.

In the film, Nick has a crush on a girl named Mandy Park, played by Keri Russell in her first feature film. John Shea portrays Dr. Charles Hendrickson, who is scheming to get Wayne’s control of the project, while Lloyd Bridges portrays Clifford Sterling, the owner of Sterling Labs.

Lawsuit before release
Disney would later find itself the subject of a lawsuit as a result of the film. The suit was filed in 1991 by Mark Goodson Productions director Paul Alter, who claimed to have come up with the idea of an oversized toddler after babysitting his granddaughter and watching her topple over building blocks. He wrote a screenplay titled “Now, That’s a Baby!”, which had not been made into a film but had received some sort of treatment beforehand.[7] Alter claimed there were several similarities between the film and his script, which consisted of the baby daughter of two scientists falling victim to a genetic experiment gone wrong instead of an enlarging ray. The case went to trial in 1993, with the jury finding in Alter’s favor. Disney was forced to pay $300,000 in damages.[8]

Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 40% based on reviews from 20 critics, with an average rating of 4.85/10.[12] On Metacritic the film has a score of 50 based on reviews from 14 critics, indicating “mixed or average reviews”.[13] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “B+” on an A+ to F scale.[14] Transcript:

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