Honey I Shrank the Audience

Entrance

You enter this movie through a series of holding areas. On busy days the waiting line can be up to forty-five minutes long, so be ready. The outside holding area is a crowded affair that tends to get on your nerves. It really is not a fun area.

Once you have entered the inner holding area, you are presented with a video playing on overhead flatpanel televisions depicting a commercial for the Inventor of the Year ceremony at the Imagination Institute. Unfortunately, this advertisement is too short and plays too many times, which causes the audience standing (no sitting allowed, as is basically shouted at you over and over again) to lose interest and start talking amongst themselves.

Because everyone starts to talk to their neighbor, the announcements to move forward and to the left and very often not heard, which just makes the announcements that much more rude. How the cast members can deal with the patrons day after day at this ride is amazing, because the waiting area for it is truly of poor design.

Finally a new video will start playing, giving a different commercial about how pictures inspire stories. This is present by Kodak, and is really quite well done, though it is starting to get a bit old now. Time for Kodak to film a new one sometime.

After this a video of greeting is done by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame, where he introduces Professor Szalinski (Rick Moranis) as the winner of the Inventor of the Year award. You are then shuffled off to the left into the theater, where you get to put on your 3-D glasses and watch the award ceremony.

The Movie

The movie is set at the awards ceremony for the Inventor of the Year, which Professor Szalinski has won. You are an audience member at this awards ceremony. There is a second LCD screen in the upper left corner of the auditorium that is a bit dim, so hard to see.

Eventually the movie depicts you as having been shrunk by one of Professor Szalinski's inventions. In addition to the 3-D effects that you are subjected to, you also get air blown into your face and legs, water spritzed at you, and the seats will shake to resemble the idea that the entire auditorium has been picked up by one of the members of Szalinski's family.

Notes

At one point in the movie, the producer mentions that the auditorium you are sitting in should be set down precisely so that the exits will line up. I thought this was a nice touch, but I think that they should have gone a little bit further with it since you exit out the other side of the theatre from where you enter. At the exit doors, there should be rough brickwork showing as if the theater was NOT placed perfectly so that the exits would line up.