Goofs for
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: The size of the hole in the broken windows.
  
  
• Continuity: Amy can be heard breathing when supposedly not breathing after nearly drowning.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: As Amy is being dragged from the muddy water after nearly drowning a huge boulder can be seen clearly floating in the water.
  
  

• Factual errors: Szalinkski says that the Shrink Ray works by reducing the empty space in matter. If this is true, then the children's mass and weight would be exactly the same despite the reduced size. The trash bag Scalinkski would weigh several hundred pounds, the ant would not have been able to hold them, and the ground would have been compressing under the children's feet: the small surface area of their feet would mean that they would be exerting many tens of thousands of pounds of force per square inch.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: Cables visible when Nick is sucked out of the earthworm tunnel.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When the kids are riding the ant, two members of the crew can be seen walking in front of them.
  
  
• Continuity: When Amy walks over to Ron to offer him a truce, her hands are clean, but then she puts mud in his hand when they shake.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the kids are going down the dust-pan, a screw top breaks on the way down, showing it's made of foam.
  
  
• Continuity: From the window's side of Russell and Mae's bedroom, their bed is on the left side of their room, but when they are talking about little Russell, the bed is on the right side. Everything in the entire bedroom has switched sides from the first scene when Russell opens up his window to yell at Wayne.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): At the beginning of the movie, a letter carrier is delivering mail. There is a mailbox with the flag up. He should open it, remove the outgoing mail, put the flag down and deliver incoming mail. However, he just opens the box and delivers the incoming mail, leaving the flag up.
  
  
• Continuity: When Wayne runs to turn off the faucet on the side of the house, A pair of bluejeans is hanging on his left shoulder. In the next shot, the bluejeans are gone.
  
  
• Factual errors: In the battle scene between the ant and the scorpion, the scorpion is shown to be only slightly bigger then the ant. A scorpion in comparison to an ant would be WAY bigger then the ant, not only slightly bigger as the movie portrays.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: In both Nick and his father's glasses, reflections of set lighting and cameras can be seen throughout the film.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the ant shows up, and the kids are debating what to do, Russ jumps out from behind the grass and says "I say, that ant is ours"- but his mouth isn't moving.
  
  
• Factual errors: Scorpions can't live in a normal yard, Scorpions prefer to live in areas where the temperatures range from 20°C to 37°C (68°F to 99°F), but may survive from freezing temperatures to the desert heat.
  
  
• Factual errors: Szalinski says the shrink ray works by removing the space between molecules; however, a solid object has very little space between its molecules making it impossible to shrink as much as they are shrunk.
  
  
• Continuity: The kids, when compared to the size of the Lego block, should be larger than the ant.
  
  
• Factual errors: The title is grammatically incorrect. The past tense of 'shrink' is 'shrank'; 'shrunk' is the past participle.
  
  
• Factual errors: When getting out of the trash bag, Nick says they are a quarter of an inch tall. That would mean they are bigger than the ant.
  
  
• Crew or equipment visible: When Nick and Russ are on the bee, when the bee flies back down and hits the blades of grass, before Nick and Russ fly off a harness can be clearly seen on Nick for a few frames.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the kids battle the ant, throughout the scene, there is a black cloth underneath the ant, suggesting the ant is not real but animatronic.
  
  
• Factual errors: The wide shot of the scorpion and the ant fighting, the legs of the scorpion show a skeleton underneath when in fact all insects have no skeleton but only hard skin to protect them.
  
  

Related Links