History Film / HoneyIBlewUpTheKid

-->'''Wayne''': Uh oh.\\
'''Diane''': What?\\

'''Wayne:''' Weren’t they…?\\
'''Diane and Wayne:''' ''In Adam’s pocket!'' (''They immediately check Adam’s pocket, only to discover there’s a hole in it'')\\
'''Diane:''' Don’t tell me…\\

'''Diane:''' Honey, he needs ''me!'' The problem is, to Adam, his mommy is somebody much bigger than he is!\\
(''Wayne’s eyes widen as he realizes what she’s getting at, and glances at the machine'')

--> '''Wayne:''' (to Adam) [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Never cross mommy.]]

-->'''Diane:''' (grabbing the helicopter) Back.... off!!

--> '''Marshal Brooks''': We just needed to give the baby more room so he wouldn't hurt himself.
--> '''Dr. Hendrickson''': Of course, the mutated child will have to undergo [[BerserkButton immediate testing]].
--> '''Wayne''': '''[[SuddenlyShouting THAT’S MY KID YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!]]'''

Five years after the events of the first film, Wayne Szalinski (Creator/RickMoranis) has moved to Nevada with his family to help Sterling Labs develop an offshoot of his shrink-ray that will enlarge objects instead of shrinking them. His superior, Dr. Charles Hendrickson (John Shea), wants to kick him off the project due to his personal disdain for Wayne. While watching over his toddler son, Adam (Daniel and Joshua Shalikar), Wayne sneaks into Sterling Labs to find a way to solve the growth-ray's problems, which leads to him accidentally zapping Adam. Now having to deal with his increasingly growing son, Wayne and his family must find a way to get Adam back to normal size before he hurts himself or others.

The film also stars Marcia Strassman as Diane Szalinski, Lloyd Bridges as Clifford Sterling and Robert Oliveri as Nick Szalinski.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the first film was more of a simple adventure film set in the the Szalinskis' backyard where the protagonists had to get back to their house so that Wayne can restore them to normal size. This film has much higher stakes due to his toddler son being accidentally blown up to giant size and going through all of Las Vegas. Thats not all even, there's also the threat of that same toddler being in danger due to a work rival of Wayne's who is willing to hurt him with tranquilizers.

** While searching the warehouse with Diana for his prototype ShrinkRay, Wayne bemoans how the day has turned out, saying he was planning on seeing a movie with Nick. No sooner does he say that then:

** In his first scene, Adam is watching ''Mr. Rogers'' sing about getting bigger.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the first film was more of a simple adventure film set in the backyard of Wayne’s where the protagonists had to get back to their house so that he can restore them to normal size. This film has much higher stakes due to his newborn son being accidentally blown up to giant size and going through all of Las Vegas. Thats not all even, there’s also the threat of that same newborn being in danger due to a work rival of Wayne’s that’s willing to hurt him with tranquilizers.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Clifford Sterling]] initially seems like a jerk, but [[HeelFaceTurn comes around]] pretty quickly once Wayne makes his case.

* ExactWords: When Nick is protesting to the government officials that they can't keep Adam in a truck, they think he means in an amoral way, with them assuring him that the inside of the truck is fixed up like a playpen. That turns out to be Nick's point, as he means Adam is an escape artist who regularly gets out of his playpen, so the truck wouldn't be able to hold him.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While searching the warehouse with Diana for his prototype ShrinkRay, Wayne bemoans how the day has turned out, saying he was planning on seeing a movie with Nick. No sooner does he say that then:

** Then later, after Adam [[spoiler:(along with Diane)]] is shrunk back to normal.
--->'''Diane:''' Wayne! Nick and Mandy!\\
'''Wayne:''' Weren’t they…?\\
'''Diane and Wayne:''' ''In Adam’s pocket!'' (''They immediately check Adam’s pocket, only to discover there’s a hole in it'')\\
'''Diane:''' Don’t tell me…\\
'''Wayne:''' Oh my God. [[TitleDrop Honey, I shrunk the kids!]]

-->'''Wayne:''' Oh my God. Honey, I shrunk the kids!

* AnimatedCreditsOpening: The opening displayed animated scenarios of Wayne dealing with a huge Adam, from feeding and telling him stories to playing with him, [[RunningGag especially pattycake]].
* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Increasing the amount of space between molecules would do nothing to affect on object's mass. Diane could have ''picked Adam up'', whether she was blown up or not. Likewise Adam wouldn't have quite the strength to lift a car.

* BigDamnHeroes: Giant-sized Diane stops Dr. Hendrickson from shooting her son again by grabbing his helicopter out of the sky.

** And moments before that, when she [[spoiler: also turns into a giant, she stops the helicopter]] Hendrickson is in, trying to shoot her baby with said tranquilizers, and tells him in no uncertain terms to cease and desist ''immediately''.

** Nick gets [[accidentally shrunk]] again.

** Like how a baseball was used to make the shrink ray work in the first movie, in this movie a broken glass Coke bottle is used to fix it.

** Adam is quite the little escape artist, and prone to getting into other people's stuff and breaking it, even by toddler standards. This helps set up what a danger he is once he gets really big.

** When Wayne and Diane are looking for the boxed-up shrink ray in the warehouse, there is a very clear shot of her standing in front of a crate labeled [[Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk "ARK OF THE COVENANT"]].

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Zigzagged. A well-funded lab and team of researchers are studying Zalinsky's shrinking technology. However, Wayne seems to live rather modestly.

** Wayne also title drops the full name of the first movie during the ending to this one.

--> '''Wayne''': '''[[SuddenlyShouting THAT’S]]''' '''''[[SuddenlyShouting MY KID]]''''' '''[[SuddenlyShouting YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!]]'''

** As in the first movie, Diane faints upon seeing that Adam has been enlarged. Mandy does so in this movie.

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Zigzagged. A well-funded lab and team of researchers are studying the shrinking technology. However, Wayne seems to live rather modestly.

* EveryoneHasStandards: The pilot of the helicopter is reluctant to partake in Dr. Hendrickson’s plan to tranquilize Adam not only because he doesn’t want Adam to get hurt, but he also expresses concerns for Adam falling on several civilians if tranquilized, a concern which Hendrickson doesn’t seem too upset over.

* IWantMyMommy: A particularly heart wrenching version after a Giant Adam is hurt by the static shock a tranquilizer dart that hit the Hard Rock Café guitar he was playing, the confused and frightened child begins to call out "Mama," through his tears, unaware that he now dwarfs his mother by a good fifty feet.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Dr. Hendrickson has no qualms in overextending his authority in Sterling Labs; even barring Wayne from using the machinery without his permission, despite being aware that Wayne himself created the machinery in the first place. He also has no qualms in tranquilizing a giant-sized kid and have him subject to testing, which was the very reason why he was fired by Sterling in the first place.

* DarkerAndEdgier: While the first film was more of a simple adventure film set in the backyard of Wayne’s where the protagonists had to get back to their house so that he can restore them to normal size. This film has much higher stakes due to his newwest born son being accidentally blown up to giant size and going through all of Las Vegas. Thats not all even, there’s also the threat of same kid being in danger due to a work rival of Wayne’s that’s willing to hurt him with tranquilizers