Editing Innerspace (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film grossed $25.9 million in the United States and [[Canada]],<ref name=BOM>{{Cite Box Office Mojo |access-date=2023-01-15}}</ref> generating $14 million in [[theatrical rental]]s.<ref name=ww/> Internationally, it grossed $32.7 million in its first 37 days and was expected to gross $75 million ($30 million in rentals).<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 20, 1988|page=7|title=Warner Bros. Intl. Keeps Rolling; Posts $148-Mil In O'seas Rentals In '87; Some Markets Untapped |last=McCarthy|first=Todd|author-link=Todd McCarthy}}</ref> It eventually returned $28 million in rentals, for a worldwide total rentals of $42 million<ref name=ww>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=January 11, 1989|page=24|title=Foreign Vs. Domestic Rentals}}</ref> and a worldwide gross in the region of $95 million against a budget of $27 million.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/09/movies/summer-movies-set-a-record.html |title=Summer Movies Set a Record |first=Aljean |last=Harmetz |date=September 9, 1987 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 5, 2019 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=April 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417081427/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/09/movies/summer-movies-set-a-record.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Critical response===
The film had a positive reception from critics.<ref>{{cite news |title=Movie Reviews : Taking In the Sights of Inner and Outer Junkets: Hilarious and Inventive Trip to 'Innerspace' |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=1987-07-01 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-01-ca-652-story.html |access-date=2010-12-28 |url-access=subscription |first=Sheila |last=Benson |archive-date=2021-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310003920/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-07-01-ca-652-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Cinema: A Funny, Fantastic Voyage INNERSPACE|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=1987-07-13|url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964940,00.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080408195103/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964940,00.html|url-status= dead|archive-date= April 8, 2008|access-date=2010-12-28|first=Richard|last=Corliss}}</ref> {{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|A manic, overstuffed blend of sci-fi, comedy, and romance, ''Innerspace'' nonetheless charms, thanks to Martin Short's fine performance and the insistent zaniness of the plot.|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-15}} {{MC film|66|15|ref=yes|access-date=2023-01-15}}

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film 3 stars out of 4, stating "Here is an absurd, unwieldy, overplotted movie that nevertheless is entertaining - and some of the fun comes from the way the plot keeps laying it on". Proser later said, "I never actually have been able to sit through it all at once. They don't pay me to watch this crap. Like H. L. Hughgly,<!-- I don't know who this is. That's an exact quote from the source; possibly Proser was referring to [[D. L. Hughley]], but I don't know where the mask joke comes from.--> I wear a mask to cash the check."<ref name=ProserInterview>[https://www.mediapundit.net/2008/02/interview-with-chip-proser-adopt-a-writer.html Interview with Chip Proser (Adopt a Writer)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240326181533/https://www.mediapundit.net/2008/02/interview-with-chip-proser-adopt-a-writer.html |date=2024-03-26 }}, by Paul William Tenny; at MediaPundit.net; published February 18, 2008; retrieved March 26, 2024</ref>

Joe Dante later said the film "was a hit on video. It was one of the first big videos, and it was discovered on video, basically. Although audiences liked it in theaters—when I went, they were in stitches—the ad campaign was so terrible for that movie. It was just a giant thumb with a little tiny pod on it. You couldn't tell that it was a comedy—you couldn't tell anything—and it had a terrible title, because we could never figure out a better one. And the studio botched the selling of it. I mean, they liked the movie, and they tried to reissue it, even, with a different campaign, and it still bombed."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/16352/joe-dante-interview-the-hole-gremins-3-and-marketing-innerspace|title=Joe Dante interview: The Hole, Gremins [''sic''] 3 and marketing Innerspace|last=Lambie|first=Ryan|website=Den of Geek|date=20 September 2010}}</ref>

"It's been looked back on as if it was some great success whereas, in fact, it was pretty much a disappointment in its day," he said.<ref name="cinema"/> Dante later called the film "probably the movie that I had made up to then that was the closest to my intention. As a result, I was very happy with it. When I look at it today I still think it's a tremendous amount of fun."<ref name="cinema"/>