History Headscratchers / HoneyIShrunkTheKids

* Bearing in mind that pretty much the whole movie runs on bullshit science, there's one moment that particularly bugs me, to wit: Assume that the machine works by sucking empty space out of a given object but leaving its mass unchanged, as Wayne says. If you were to shrink, say, a 150-pound person down to the size of a gnat, wouldn't you end up with a gnat-sized person who still weighs 150 pounds? Could someone that small yet that massive even move? It can't be that Wayne was just dumbing it down for the people in his audience, either, because they're all scientists just like him.

** There's a trope for that, but it's for [[CutLexLuthorACheck supervillians.]]

** Okay, I want you to think about what you've said: "Bearing in mind that pretty much the whole movie runs on bullshit science, I am unable to accept the central and primary piece of bullshit science in the movie." ... You're basically just saying you can't accept the premise of the movie. So don't watch it and don't complain, then.

*** This can be expanded further when you consider that Nick worked out that the distance for them to get to the back door is 3.5 miles,. Now even if you take into consideration everything that happened to them throughout that walk, it still should not have taken them 1.5 days to get there.

*** I'm pretty sure that even if I were a complete goober who somehow managed to cure cancer, I'd be the the richest and most famous goober in the world.

*** Also, at no point do the parents try to speak to their shrunken children, even at a whisper. Just letting the kids know that the parents are aware of their situation and trying to find them would make them feel allot better. Though the kids couldn't respond, they could have set up some kind of 'collection point' or landmark in the yard where the tiny children could be retrieved.

* Why does Sterling Labs have trouble enlarging things in ''Honey, I Blew Up the Kid''? The shrinking machine could enlarge things just fine in the end of ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids''.
** Either they built an inferior machine or you have to tune it just right to enlarge something without making it explode. Wayne managed to enlarge a turkey at the end of the first movie, so it's clear ''he'' knows how to do it.
** It's really hard to say. On one hand Wayne isn't inspired into how to fix it until partway into the film, rather than immediately just tell them the beam was too strong, even though it was the same problem as the shrink ray. On the other hand it could be that enlarging machine at the lab works different, because Wayne was able to set up his original machine to do the same thing to enlarge Diane in short order. On the other other hand he wasn't sure if it work work properly, saying he was afraid Diane would just start randomly growing on contact to electricity rather than instantly grow to Adam's size, even though it works as intended as far as we see.
** The answer is simple. Hendrickson would not let Wayne get a word in edgewise, and he didn't give him access to the data in the lab in the first place.

*** They may have seen other ones in passing, it's just that those were the two plot-relevant ones, so they were the ones onscreen. (And actually it's three, remember the bee?) Remember this was before the advent of cheap and easy CGI... whipping up a giant insect wasn't as easy as calling up the effects guys and saying "Hey, toss a few aphids and maybe a daddy longlegs in there or something."

*** You know all of this basically works out just fine if you assume Nick was wrong. Remember that he's smart but he's not quite as smart as he thinks he is a lot of the time. They're actually much smaller but Nick messed up his original assessment and then doesn't bother to correct himself because he doesn't want to admit he's wrong, especially when no one's interested in calling him on it.

*** This can be expanded further when you consider that Nick worked out that the distance for them to get to the back door is 3.5 miles,. Now even if you take into consideration everything that happened to them throughout that walk, it still should not have taken them 1.5 days to get there.