History YMMV / HoneyWeShrunkOurselves

* NightmareFuel: The moment when the cockroach is nibbling at a shrunken Diane, especially when it grabs her trapped leg with its mouth, is very nerve-wrecking for those who are already squeamish of roaches.

* ContestedSequel: The fans are strongly divided between this film being the low point of the franchise with its obvious smaller budget and cheesy jokes, or a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel over [[Film/HoneyIBlewUpTheKid the previous film]] that returns to what everyone loved about the first film with a fun twist of Wayne finally getting a taste of his own medicine.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the Tiki Man sentient? Wayne attritbues a lot of the good luck he has to the Tiki Man while treating him like he's a real person and along with that, the inciting incident is to avoid Diane's demand to get rid of him by means of Wayne turning the shrinking machine back on and zapping the Tiki Man with it--which in turn gets all four adults shrunk down too. This along with shots focusing on the Tiki Man, the adults forced into this situation where they have to go on a trek through the house to try to make the kids aware of the situation being the major result of this too and work out the differences between themselves and the kids all result in the Tiki Man being zapped back to his original size along with the adults, Diane telling Wayne she's not gonna make him get rid of him anymore and the Tiki Man now at a maximized size towering triumphantly by the end of the movie over everything from the Szalinski's backyard.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Is the Tiki Man sentient? Wayne attritbues a lot of the good luck he has to the Tiki Man while treating him like he's a real person and along with that, the inciting incident is to avoid Diane's demand to get rid of him by means of Wayne turning the shrinking machine back on and zapping the Tiki Man with it--which in turn gets all four adults shrunk down too. This along with shots focusing on the Tiki Man, the adults forced into this situation where they have to go on a trek through the house to try to make the kids aware of the situation and work out the differences between themselves and the kids all result in the Tiki Man being zapped back to his original size along with the adults, Diane telling Wayne she's not gonna make him get rid of him anymore and the Tiki Man now at a maximized size towering triumphantly by the end of the movie over everything from the Szalinski's backyard.

* ContestedSequel: The fans are strongly divided between this film being the low point of the franchise with its obvious smaller budget and cheesy jokes, or a SurprisinglyImprovedSequel that returns to what everyone loved about the first film with a fun twist of Wayne finally getting a taste of his own medicine.

* HarsherInHindsight: TheReasonYouSuckSpeech that Jenny gives her crush about kissing her without her consent was right on, but years later, her actress Allison Mack was caught as an accomplice in a sex ring where she recruited women into slavery; makes one wonder if she ever got a clue about how wrong it is to force people to do things they don't want to do.

* SpecialEffectFailure: At one point the parents inadvertently ride an out-of-control Hot Wheels car straight into a laundry chute and go plummeting down into a laundry basket. In the [[https://youtu.be/Tz6-5EB6Hdk?t=92 first shot of everybody falling down the chute]], Wayne and Gordon noticeably suddenly vanish as they reach the bottom of the screen.

** Wayne's niece Jenny is played by [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe Sullivan]], while his brother is played by [[Series/NotNecessarilyTheNews Bob Charles]] and [[Series/{{Dinosaurs}} Earl Sinclair]].
** A behind the scenes example: the movie was the directorial debut of noted cinematographer DeanCundey ([[OneBookAuthor as of 2014, his only foray into directing]]) and co-written by none other than [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Joel Hodgson]].
** [[Film/IceCreamMan Tuna Cassera]] is a JerkJock in the movie.
** [[Film/TheStupids Buster Stupid]] has a crush on a young [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Meg Griffin]].

* SpecialEffectFailure: At one point the parents inadvertently ride an out-of-control Hot Wheels car straight into a laundry chute and go plummeting down into a laundry basket. In the [[https://youtu.be/Tz6-5EB6Hdk?t=92 first shot of everybody falling down the chute]], Wayne and Barton noticeably suddenly vanish as they reach the bottom of the screen.

* SpecielEffectFailure: At one point the parents inadvertently ride an out-of-control Hot Wheels car straight into a laundry chute and go plummeting down into a laundry basket. In the [[https://youtu.be/Tz6-5EB6Hdk?t=92 first shot of everybody falling down the chute]], Wayne and Barton noticeably suddenly vanish as they reach the bottom of the screen.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Aww, Alfalfa from ''Film/TheLittleRascals'' grew up...a little.
** Jenny would later go on to pine over Clark Kent in ''Series/{{Smallville}}''.
** A pre-''{{That 70s Show}}'' {{Mila Kunis}} as one of Jenny's friends.

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** A pre-{{That 70s Show}} {{Mila Kunis}} as one of Jenny's friends.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Aww, Alfalfa from {{The Little Rascals}} grew up...a little.
** Jenny would later go on to pine over Clark Kent in {{Smallville}}.

* UglyCute: The Daddy Long Legs.

** A pre-{{That 70s Show}} {{Mila Kunis}} as one of Jenny's friends.

** A pre-{{That 70s Show}} Jackie as one of Jenny's friends.

** Jenny would later go on to pine over Clark Kent in {{Smallville}}.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Aww, Alfalfa from {{Little Rascals}} grew up...a little.