joe dante may be the zany director out there and along with tim burton . matinee be my favorite of his movie and but innerspace be certainly also up there . for the for couple of minute and i couldn not figure out what be go on and but suddenly and the plot become clear . lt. tuck pendleton ( dennis quaid ) be shrunk down to the size of a dust speck to be inject into an animal a la fantastic voyage . but then and a terrorist group seize the lab and one of the scientist carry the hypodermic out . with his last bit of strength and he inject tuck into local dweeb jack putter ( martin short ) without inform jack of this . from there and some very embarrassing predicament arise for the two men and not the least of which be how to explain the situation to explain to tuck hubby lydia maxwell ( meg ryan ) . throughout and innerspace have dante quirky mark all over it . dante of course give a role to dick miller represent in this case and miller play a cab driver . dante regular kevin mccarthy and robert picardo also star and the former a villain victor scrimshaw and the latter a scrimshaw associate cowboy . with some crazy line and this movie be pure fun for everyone .