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The turkey

posted 13 years ago by mutteri6
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I just watched the movie after many years and found myself constantly finding errors and inconsistencies (e.g. in the scale of the environment and objects). And then at the end of the movie they have that ginormous turkey. You know, a brilliant use for the shrinking/enlarging machine. No more hunger in the world! - Except that according to the bs science in the movie, stuff should still have the same mass even when enlarged. :0 So basically he just added empty space between the turkey's molecules. That'll sure fill everyone up.

[–] kbtoys100 13 years ago

Dude...its a kid's movie.

[–] starry42 13 years ago

I agree 100%. Watching this film at the age of 3, all I cared about was seeing the kids become tiny and have a wild backyard adventure. Wayne's technobabble went right over my head. I'm 23 now, and I still enjoy the film as much as I did at 3, and I still don't care for the scientific aspects. If you ask me, people who expect to see scientific accuracy in a movie need to get out more.

[–] mutteri6 11 years ago

It's still nice to nitpick. I also loved the movie as a kid and didn't care about any scientific accuracy or lack thereof. It's about the adventure and all that and (in this case) it'd be silly to hold these details against the movie. Still my point wasn't about scientific accuracy but the amount of crap the creators give about maintaining internal consistency in their story.

[–] behamut 9 years ago

I thought about that too. They really didn't care about any real accuracy.

Another glossed over aspect is that the kids would weigh the same if they still had the same mass. They'd just be incredibly dense and probably punch holes through anything they stood on. The bag of garbage would have weighed about 350 to 450 pounds with all the kids swept up in it.

If the writers did try to be fully accurate, I think they would have given up trying to write it. Sometimes you have to take some artistic license so that the show can go on.