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  • 12 Movies About Growing And Shrinking, Just Like Ant-Man And The Wasp


    Ant-Man and The Wasp is now in theaters, and while it is a Marvel superhero film, the movie is filled with moments of people and things growing to immense sizes and shrinking to the size of bugs. However, it's not the only movie featuring this sci-fi trope, which feels very at home during the 1950's science fiction craze. And while this theme isn't new at all, it is predominantly featured in quite a few films over the past 60 years.
    From Disney's Alice shrinking in order to get into inside a door to Wayne Szalinski ruining his life by using his shrinking/growing machine, there are actually some solid movies about this concept--as well as a few mediocre ones. So we decided to take a quick look at some other movies featuring people growing and shrinking in size for you to check out before or after you see Ant-Man and The Wasp.
    In our review of Ant-Man and the Wasp, GameSpot's Mike Rougeau said, "Ant-Man and the Wasp is hilarious, fun, silly, self aware, and creative. Filled with pseudo-science gobbledigook, crazy action, and multiple villains all vying for screen time, it's one of the most comic-booky MCU movies yet. The fates of all our favorite heroes after Avengers: Infinity War may still be up in the air, but in the meantime, Ant-Man and the Wasp is a welcome distraction."
    For more on Ant-Man and The Wasp, learn about the mid and post-credit scenes, the history of the character in the comics, and why the movie is set before Infinity War. Otherwise, check out these other movies about getting large or going small.


    Alice In Wonderland (1951)


    In this classic Disney film, Alice follows a white rabbit into the forest, which leads her down a rabbit hole. From there, she shrinks in size after drinking a magic potion, then grows after eating a biscuit. While the focus of the movie isn't about growing and shrinking, it's one of the most iconic moments of the movie.


    The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)


    After exposure to radiation and insecticides, while enjoying a day in the sun, Scott Carey begins to shrink. He goes from a normal-sized man, to a few inches shorter, to being small enough to live in a dollhouse. Carey finds animals like a house cat and spiders become life-threatening when you're only six inches tall.


    Attack Of The 50 Foot Woman (1958)


    Rich socialite Nancy Archer isn't having the best life because her husband has been having an affair but continues to come crawling back when he needs money. One evening, Archer has an encounter with a UFO which transformers her to 50 feet tall. She then decides to take vengeance on her horrid husband.


    Fantastic Voyage (1966)


    Both the United States and the Soviet Union have created technology that can shrink people and objects; however, it only lasts for an hour. Dr. Jan Benes finds a way to make the shrinking last indefinitely, but finds himself in a coma after an assassination attempt. A group of doctors board a submarine, become miniaturized, and go inside Dr. Benes in order to save his life by removing a brain clot.


    Honey, I Shrunk The Kids (1987)


    Wayne Szalinski, the crazy scientist next door, creates a machine that can shrink things. However, his son, daughter, and two of his neighbor's kids end up and the wrong place at the wrong time and end up shrinking so small that ants are the size a horse and blades of grass are now the size of a tree. The kids go on a mission in their own backyard to try and get big again.


    Innerspace (1987)


    A pilot named Tuck is involved in a miniaturization experiment. He gets shrunk inside a vehicle and placed inside a syringe, but a group of bad dudes steal the technology, and Tuck gets injected inside Jack Putter, a store clerk. Tuck finds a way to communicate with Jack, while inside of him, and the two try to find a way to get the shrinking technology back and restore Tuck to regular size.


    Big (1988)


    A teenage boy named Josh wants nothing more than to be older, and one night, he makes a wish on a Zoltar machine to be big. He wakes up the next morning a full-grown adult. His best friend Billy helps Josh acclimate to the adult world while the two search for the Zoltar machine to reverse the wish.


    Honey, I Blew Up The Kid (1992)


    This time around, Wayne Szalinski makes a machine that can make things big, and just like the first movie, his technology goes awry when he accidentally uses it on his toddler, who begins growing at an incredible rate, up to 100 feet tall. Szalinski, once again, has to figure out a way to fix his kid.


    Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)


    At this point, Wayne Szalinski should be in prison for child endangerment and probably a bunch of other crimes. This time around, Wayne shrinks himself, his wife, his brother, and his brother's wife. Now, Wayne needs to get his children's attention in order to fix wet another problem he created.


    Ant-Man (2015)


    Scott Lang is trying to get his life back on track after being released from prison. However, he finds himself in rough spot when he steals a suit that allows him to shrink in size, and the suit's creator wants him to pull off a major heist to keep the shrinking technology out of the wrong hands.


    Downsizing (2017)


    Paul, an occupational therapist, decides to change his life forever by taking part in a procedure that shrinks humans to a few inches tall. However, his wife doesn't come with him, and Paul learns to live his life on his own, in a world that's so much larger than it used to be.


    Rampage (2018)


    Very loosely based on the arcade game of the same name, Rampage follows Davis Okoye, a primatologist who finds the albino gorilla--George--he takes care of is growing in size because of a genetic experiment gone wrong. Okoye teams with George to take on two other giant, mutated animals who are destroying Chicago.




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