INSIDE JACK PUTTER, THERE’S A HERO TRYING TO GET OUT.
From director Joe Dante (Gremlins, The ‘Burbs) and producer Steven Spielberg (Poltergeist, Back to the Future) comes Innerspace, an action-comedy adventure that will turn your world inside out!
Maverick pilot Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) is about to make history as part of a scientific experiment to be miniaturised and injected into the body of a rabbit… but when rogue scientists steal the new technology, he finds himself injected into hypochondriac grocery clerk Jack Putter (Martin Short) instead. Together with ace reporter Lydia Maxwell (Meg Ryan), Jack must find the stolen tech that will get Tuck back to regular size and out of his body – before the bad guys extract him by force!
With Dante’s unique mix of wit, charm and screwball action, as well as extraordinary Oscar-winning visual effects, Innerspace is a beloved classic of 80s cinema that remains as funny and exciting as ever in this brand new 4K restoration.
4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
• Brand new restoration from the original 35mm negative by Arrow Films, approved by director Joe Dante
• 4K (2160p) UHD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
• Newly restored original lossless 2.0 stereo, original 70mm 6-track mix in DTS-HD MA 4.1 surround and newly remixed Dolby Atmos audio
• Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Brand new audio commentary by film critic Drew McWeeny
• Archive audio commentary with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell, visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren and actors Kevin McCarthy and Robert Picardo
• Shrinkage: The Making of Innerspace, a brand new hour-long documentary featuring newly filmed interviews with director Joe Dante, producer Michael Finnell, visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren, visual effects artists Harley Jessup and Bill George and actor Robert Picardo
• Behind the Scenes with Joe Dante, previously unseen video footage shot during the production of Innerspace
• Behind the Scenes at ILM, previously unseen footage shot by visual effects supervisor Dennis Muren during production
• Original storyboards
• Continuity and Behind the Scenes Polaroids
• Production stills gallery
• Posters and Promo stills gallery
• Theatrical trailer
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Doug John Miller
• Double-sided fold-out poster featuring two original artwork options
• Collectors’ perfect-bound booklet featuring new writing by film critics Charlie Brigden, Michael Doyle, Josh Nelson, Jessica Scott and Andrea Subissati, a short guide to Joe Dante’s stock company by Scott Saslow, plus the original exhibitors pamphlet
Looking forward to this for nostalgic reasons if nothing else; this came out on video when I was 7 years old, and when my dad took me to the video store to rent out, the clerk tried to insist that I was too young for it and she tried to convince my dad to rent Big Business for me instead (the Lily Tomlin / Better Midler film). My dad just laughed at her. I've still never seen Big Business.
I revisited this a year or two ago while going through Dante's filmography, and liked it a lot more than I did when I was a kid. It's humor bursts early with Short at the supermarket and it's overall just a very pleasant experience, if nothing revolutionary
Would love to see them tackle Explorers next, if they're able to get UK exclusive titles from Paramount (so far they've all just been ports of their US titles).
rapta wrote: Sat Jan 31, 2026 1:01 am
Would love to see them tackle Explorers next, if they're able to get UK exclusive titles from Paramount (so far they've all just been ports of their US titles).
I’d kill to hear a Dante commentary on Looney Tunes: Back in Action
I'm having difficulty playing the first audio track - I can barely hear the sound no matter how high I turn up the volume on my TV. Is there something I can do to fix this, or is it a TV/player/soundbar issue that can't be solved?
As for the film itself.. Wow, this revisit felt like an entirely different movie than I've seen before. Maybe I've just become more impressed over time with the throw-everything-at-the-wall approach to comedy, but this is such an incredibly bizarre film, imbuing a looseness to its comic rhythm that leaves room for Dante and co. to try just about anything and everything - it's even a strong action movie! I was reminded of some of Tashlin's wackier outings like Son of Paleface, where even if every joke doesn't land, the film scores extra points for its full-throated commitment to each bit. This is an overplotted and disordered extravaganza that I wouldn't fault anyone for disliking (my wife was enjoying it for a while before eventually growing tired of the left-field antics and abandoned ship), but this is exactly the type of novel cinematic outing I'm craving these days, and it felt like a first-time viewing despite rewatching just a few years ago. Five stars for some odd combination of effort and performance, genre-hopping its way to a sublime chaos that still feels rooted in an eccentric internal logic. At two full hours, it somehow never wears out its welcome. Arrow's edition is stunning
