Fantastic Voyage (1966)
Directed by Richard Fleischer
In order to save an assassinated scientist, a submarine and its crew are shrunk to microscopic size and injected into his bloodstream.
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In a storytelling convention that’s at least as old as the 1966 sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage —another example that springs to mind is Madeleine L’Engle’s great novel A Wind in the Door —Inside Out cuts between two parallel storylines, one taking place around Riley, the other inside her.
Miniaturized interlopers have also found comic results ("Innerspace") and harrowing ones ("Fantastic Voyage") after being injected into bodies.
This isn't the first film to depict small beings inside others (beyond the likes of "Fantastic Voyage" and any number of demonic possession flicks there's been "Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex" (or at least one segment of that Woody Allen film), "Meet Dave" and "Osmosis Jones," among a few others).
Tipping its hat to The Wizard of Oz, Fantastic Voyage and numerous other fantasy journeys, this animated adventure thoroughly amuses and challenges on its subconscious quest.
When something goes wrong and Joy and Sadness are inadvertently ejected from the "Control Room," we begin perhaps the strangest road trip since Fantastic Voyage: a trek through Riley's subconscious.
With visual elements reminiscent of Scott’s 1984 Apple commercial and the arterial river rafting of the 1966 Fantastic Voyage, this scene primes the viewer for lofty consideration of man’s place in a mutable universe — 2012: A Space Ontology.
Visual Effects Supervisor Gregory L. McMurry ("Queen of the Damned") employs thirty foot crystals within a geode that casts the terranauts in unnatural light and a free-falling Virgil as realistic as anything in 1966's "Fantastic Voyage."
When the Monarch trio, which includes Alexander Skarsgard as traumatized geologist Dr. Nathan Lind, blast off into a place called “Hollowed Earth”, it recalls Journey to the Center of the Earth, Fantastic Voyage, and the warp travel of Star Wars.
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We also get “Clockwork Orange”-like music and dopey, “Fantastic Voyage”-like glimpses inside the magical opals.
While the protagonists of films such as The Incredible Shrinking Man and Fantastic Voyage endured long-term diminution, Ant-Man nips nimbly back and forth between sizes, often within the space of a single leap.
…the Fantastic Voyage shenanigans of last year’s Into The Dalek…