I remember thinking this movie was so clever when I first watched it. My childhood imagination was full of possibilities of all the fun and adventures to be had if I was small enough to fly on the back of a bird or ride around in someone's pocket. However, as an adult my dreams were shattered when I realized that the kids in the movie shouldn't have been able to do half the things they did.
Rick Moranis' shrink ray supposedly works by removing all the empty space between the atoms in the body, shrinking objects without actually changing their mass. This means that the tiny kids should have weighed exactly the same as they did before they were shrunk. No way they could have ridden an ant or been blown around by the wind from the lawn mower. Once again, science ruins all my fun.
