Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
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Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
Honey, I Blew Up the Kid keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing family, technology, authority, otherness.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension (2011)E8/E11 · authority, family
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie (2022)E8/E11 · family, otherness
Lilo & Stitch (2002)E8 · authority, family
The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021)E8 · authority, family
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)E8 · authority, family
Aliens in the Attic (2009)E8 · family, othernessSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Outlander (2008)E6/E9/E10 · rare rung · otherness, technology
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)E9/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
WarGames (1983)E12/E14 · rare rung · authority, technology
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)E6/E9 · rare rung · authority, family
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)E12/E13 · rare rung · authority, otherness
