Innerspace (1987)
Directed by Joe Dante
Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.
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Another character that's a lot of fun is B.E.N., a beaten down robot voiced by Martin Short (Innerspace) who is reminiscent of old Bob from The Black Hole minus the Western drawl.
I can fly," he deadpans after mastering the rockets on his heels) that I was reminded of Dennis Quaid in Joe Dante's Innerspace, another instance of an ingenious actor taking flight while surrounded by layers of metal.
But instead of using roofies, they get Dileep Rao, the hilarious soothsayer from “Drag Me to Hell,” to slip a Mickey to Cillian’s heir to an empire, Robert Fischer (get it: like Bobby Fischer, the late reclusive chess master?), before hooking him up to a contraption that lets them access his mind in much the same way Dennis Quaid invaded Martin Short’s body in “Innerspace.”