The film on which Meg Ryan met and fell for the star, Dennis Quaid, before the marriage dissolved in tears more than a decade later. Remember the 1966 fantasy Fantastic Voyage, in which a group of miniaturised scientists got injected into the bloodstream of a human being? Here, the vivid imagination of director Joe Dante and his writing team creates brilliant entertainment from a sideshoot of that idea. Hard-drinking naval lieutenant Quaid is the only one crazy enough to be the guinea pig in a privately financed experiment to inject him into a rabbit. Enter the bad guys, and the chief scientist goes on the run with Quaid and capsule inside a syringe, which he ends up injecting into the backside of ineffectual hypochondriac Martin Short. The rest of this very entertaining film, which seamlessly blends science-fiction, comedy and thrills, involves Quaid contacting Short through the inner ear and trying to keep him clear of immediate extermination by the villains. Quaid and Short both deliver socko performances; and big Vernon Wells has a Jack Palance style menace as the deadly one-armed assassin with an engaging assortment of fake 'hands'.

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