Honey, I Blew Up the Kid is a 1992 American science fiction comedy film directed by Randal Kleiser and released by Walt Disney Pictures.

Rick Moranis, Marcia Strassman, Amy O'Neill, and Robert Oliveri return as the Szalinski family, while Keri Russell makes her film debut as Mandy Park.

In the film, the family's two-year-old son Adam is accidentally exposed to Wayne's new industrial-sized growth machine, which causes him to gradually grow to enormous size.

Back home, Adam and Big Bunny are exposed to electrical waves from the microwave oven and grow to a height of seven feet.

As Nick explains the situation to Mandy, Adam is exposed to the television's electrical waves and grows to fourteen feet before escaping through a wall.

As Wayne and Sterling realize that exposure to the neon lights of the city will make him grow even larger, Hendrickson devises a plan to sedate Adam with tranquilizer cartridges.

Hendrickson arrives by helicopter and starts firing tranquilizer darts at Adam, who is carrying the neon guitar sign of a Hard Rock Cafe.

It was about a toddler who grew to giant size by a freak accident involving a growth ray and eventually terrorized Las Vegas.

[3] Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was a financial success, prompting Disney to register numerous names for a potential sequel.

Screenwriter Thom Eberhardt was hired to make revisions to Big Baby; a year and a half was spent reworking the script to feature the Szalinskis.

A new climax set among Las Vegas' neon lights was also added, as opposed to a power plant in the original script.

[2] Gordon turned down the chance to direct the film, believing he would have limited creative control under Disney, although he remained as executive producer and made suggestions on-set.

[3] Jeremiah Chechik was hired to direct,[5] as Disney considered him ideal after seeing his previous film, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989).

[3] Randal Kleiser was hired as the new director,[5] due to his prior experience with special effects while directing Disney's Flight of the Navigator (1986).

[3] Honey, I Blew Up the Kid marked the feature film debut of Keri Russell, who plays Mandy Park.

[citation needed] The film's casting director, Renée Rousselot, considered more than 1,000 small children for the role of Adam.

The twins were allowed to do whatever they wanted on set, and were filmed the entire time in hopes of acquiring usable footage, some of it requiring script alterations to suit the material that was shot.

[3][8] At the suggestion of the child psychologist Joann Smith, the film crew began staging faux birthday parties on set for various crewmembers.

[3][11] A scene involving a water park – where Nick works and Mandy is introduced – was filmed at Wet 'n Wild, also in Las Vegas.

The film was originally scheduled to release in March 1992, but this was pushed back several months to avoid rushing the digital compositing work.

[13][14] Stunt double Alex Daniels was used for scenes featuring seven-foot Adam, with an oversized puppet head worn to depict the character's face.

[7] Disney was sued in 1991 by Paul Alter, a game show television director, who claimed to have come up with the idea of an oversized toddler after babysitting his granddaughter and watching her topple over building blocks.

[15] Alter claimed there were several similarities between the film and his treatment, which consisted of the baby daughter of two scientists falling victim to a genetic experiment gone wrong instead of an enlarging ray.

[16] Author Kit Reed also filed a lawsuit, alleging similarities with her short story The Attack of the Giant Baby.

"[27] Roger Ebert, reviewing for the Chicago Sun-Times, criticized the weak story writing that there "may be, for all I know, comic possibilities in a giant kid, but this movie doesn't find them."

The filmmakers are able to combine the giant baby and the "real world" in shots that seem convincing, and the image of the toddler walking down Glitter Gulch is state-of-the-art.

In 2017, the label released an expanded edition included Broughton's score for Off His Rockers, the animated short that preceded the film in cinemas.