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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
1989 · Film · 93 min
Directed by Joe Johnston
AdventureComedyFamilyScience Fiction
The scientist father of a teenage girl and boy accidentally shrinks his and two other neighborhood teens to the size of insects. Now the teens must fight diminutive dangers as the father searches for them.
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I'm a native English speaker, and I see nothing wrong with "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids". It's a movie title, for Pete's sake.
I assume you are saying it should have been "Honey, I Shrank the Kids". Please correct me if I misunderstood you.
Yes, I know the technically correct usage of "shrank" and "shrunk". But let's take off our grammarian hats for a moment and say each one out loud a few times.
"Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" rolls off the tongue, while "Honey, I Shrank the Kids" just seems... odd to me. You may disagree.
If you actually shrank your kids, and you were in a panic and rushed to tell your honey about it, would you be concerned about correct grammar, or just getting the message across?
One might even argue that the incorrect use of "shrunk" helps convey this sense of panic.
Movie titles are not required to follow "correct" English grammar, any more than newspaper headlines. They should be memorable and fun to say when you tell your friends about a movie you enjoyed.
p.s. I've never been sure who Pete is, but I hear he has a very fine bottle of sake. If we ask him real nice, maybe he will let us try a sip!
Also “smitten” is the passive past participle of “smite”, not “smote”, which is the active. This bothered me through the whole article.
I suppose the author is not a native English speaker. Like the person who titled a film “honey I shrunk the kids”. Makes me wince to even type it.
Same here, but we haven't gone as far back as the 50s. Mostly we've been enjoying family movies from the 70s, 80s, and early 90s, back when sets were elaborate and most effects were practical. Many of these older movies have really stood the test of time. Hook, The Goonies, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Muppets movies, Ernest Scared Stoopid, Willy Wonka, etc are all family favorites.
That's just it though while Doctor Strange Love (1964) was #32 and Up (2009) was #924 there both vary good movies. There was plenty of recent and fun movies vary low on the list, consider:
Bowfinger (1999), Solaris (2002), Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), From the Village to the City (1974), Going Postal (2010), Legally Blonde (2001) that's that's 4913 to 4918.
PS: Granted, rating movies is a huge multi dimensional problem, just ask Netflix, but you don't need a lot of accuracy to find a good movie.