Fantastic Voyage (1966). Shrink Wrapped. 

We miss Clive James but to soften the blow we have Stam Fine. A perfect blend of information and wit. Thank you.

This is one of my childhood favourites, because, before Star Wars, all we had was this and Logan's Run.

I have a soft spot for the animated series of Fantastic Voyage and I can still remember the theme tune: "C...M....D...F..! Combined Miniature Defence Force! Time Limit....12 HOURS!"

This was a really good movie. Fantastic imagination.

I seem to remember Inner Space quite fondly. And I'm guessing, given the rizz of the cast, it might have aged fairly well, too.

Dang, that poor guy's hospital bill must have been astronomical.

For a very long time I wasn't aware how much involved in science-fiction Donald Pleasance was. This, THX1138, Escape From New York... For the longest time I perceived him as this high-class act from that snobby episode of Columbo, only to discover that he was in a lot of schlock! Now I admire him even more.

Rest in peace, Raquel.

Thanks, one plot point: they never get the proteus wreckage out, but it doesn't grow and kill the patient. The book corrected it by having them remove it. ❤

This is such a fun movie. The premise is so goofy, but they seemed to have just said, "if we're gonna do this, let's just bloody go for it." The visuals are great, and it's very memorable.

I had no idea this movie featured Edmond O'Brien. He was one of the great character actors and my favorite role of his was as a tv writer in the Rod Serling scripted teleplay, The Comedian.

Love this movie ❤

I do love this even though I like Inner Space more due to its humour and SFX

Screenwriter: So, they can shrink people in a sub and then ... Producer: wait, that sounds impossible, why would they do that ? Screenwriter: so the movie can happen

Missed your chance Stan. You should have released this on Sunday afternoon.

Saw this in the theater. Love it!

Well that's answered a question I've had for 30 odd years. I asked around for the name of the movie I saw when I was very young about people shrunk down to go inside someone else, and all I've ever got was Inner Space. A good movie, but it never scratched the itch of recognition so I've never thought it was the same movie. This is the one I was looking for. Neat. Nightmare fuel, but neat.

When Asimov read the script so he could begin work on the novelization, he immediately pointed out that while the crew escaped at the end, the submarine debris was still inside the patient's head, and would expand there and explode the patient's skull. Studio execs replied "But the sub was destroyed!" After a few rounds of this, Asimov gave up on getting the script changed. He came up with a sort-of-plausible way to get the sub debris out in his novelization.

I found it funny that when you see the opening credits of this film you hear almost every sound effect from Lost in Space.

Great Movie & Fun commentary by SF

In my pre-teen years, the scene where Raquel Welch is pinned against the inner hull of the Proteus was a transformative event. It awakened new feelings.

Aw. You're lucky. The only thing they played on TV on Sunday afternoons when I was a kid were episodes of Grizzly Adams. I think this movie pairs well with "The Andromeda Strain" which also had lots of impressive visual effects.

As a kid I loved this movie! My older brother, who later became a doctor, would explain everything to me (he was a brainiac). …and then even at a young age I realized- I like girls! They just never liked me back🤣

Irwin Allen raided this film like a Viking, using props, music, and more for his late 60s shows. I always thought this film was his. Ha.

And yes I may have seen this film right through my childhood, (I was born in 1966) I've now reached a very sentimental point in my life, I've watched your very well paced condensed version I'd love to watch it once again (the full version that is as all I've got to do is. 'touch my personal communicator' in order to watch your video,)

Ah sweet! Fantastic Voyage is on, my favourite bit is where they rearrange his face so they can meet "The Cowboy" and all he can say is "Twoooo weeks"

Now I really want to play Microsurgeon again

This movie is the cause of a lot of people beginning to study anatomy

Enjoyed the film, managed get copy on dvd, as like special effects, and story, despite negative on about film

This movie was made before I was born. I first saw it as a child. It is still one of my favorites.

Innerspace is one of the most underrated movies of the 80's. Joe Dante is like Steven Spielberg in a fun house mirror and Dennis Quaid is sort of a Dollar Tree version of Harrison Ford. Add in Martin Short and peak Meg Ryan hotness and it's one of those forgotten 80's movies that people need to revisit after they've watched Back to the Future and Ghostbusters a hundred times each.

Fantastic Voyage is one of the best sci fi films ever done. Far better than a lot of today's too CGI dependent films. Watched in tandem with reading Dr. Isaac Asimov's novelization, its a better film than its critics think. This was adapted into a Filmation animated series in 1968. Raquel Welch looked spectacular sporting that white wetsuit.

Enjoyed that 😊

I grew up watching Sunday matinees of this movie too! Loved it every time. Very influential, of course, but I think my all time favorite parody is the Rick and Morty season 1 episode "Anatomy Park." Hilarious.

I thought this was the review for Innerspace. Give me a heads-up in 21 years.

It's funny when I do watch this film it's on a Sunday afternoon

Loved this film as a kid, and when I went to see Inner Space in the cinema, i recognised many bits.

I think I saw the Dr Who episode before this movie :)

What a movie! Clever, exciting, and a brunette Raquel Welch. The effects were impressive....not quite as impressive as Raquel in a wetsuit, but pretty damn impressive.

Futurama's take on this with the space worms is hilarious

Stam Fine is becoming one of my favourite RU-vid channels. 👍

Such a fun movie with a cool premise and cast!

Raquel Welch as Cora Peterson Indeed Fantastic.👍👏

Got to do Innerspace next.

Monty Python: "I'd tax Raquel Welch. And I have a feeling she'd tax me." Not related but not unrelated.

let's face it. Asimov's book was great.. this did a good go on that. Big names, when Hollywood wasn't dead. Fun.

Innerspace may not be a direct remake, but it does duplicate many of the plot devices of the original, so could be considered a remake in spirit, or if nothing else a spiritual successor.

Stam, most of the time, you are great. This one, you are absolutely outstanding!

For some reason Donald Pleasance scared me.

The big problem, the biggest problem, with this movie is that Donald Pleasence, the Proteus, and all of the water that had been in the originally gigantic syringe before it was shrunk down were all left inside Benes's body. The fact that the ship and the traitor had both been "eaten" by the antibodies does not matter. Their molecules, and all those thousands of gallons of water, would still have returned to their original size and mass, tearing Benes to a bloody pulp from the inside out. Even if the mission had gone perfectly, the water would have done the job. I enjoy the movie very much, but this plot hole has bugged me ever since I first saw it at the age of ten.

Oh my!!! you're channel has reminded me that despite 2 kids, never getting the chance to watch the telly anymore and a complete lack of interest in recent scifi at my heart I am still a scifi girlie. Weekend matinee on BBC2 or Channel 4 formed my interests. 😊

Pity they didn’t follow it up with the sequel “Destination: Brain”

If I had a dollar for every piece of media that did a “shrinking into someone’s body” premise based off this movie, I could afford to build my own shrinking submarine lol

What, no bullshit restocking fee??

suggestion for review , 2 short lived 80s cyberpunk Sci-Fi shows - MAX HEADROOM - Captain Power and the soldiers of the Future

I remember there was a cartoon version of that

“Slide slide, Slippity-Slide!”(RIP, Coolio!)

Fantastic 7 Days

There was suppose to be a remake.

Inner Space is mentioned in this movie as well as this video.

I often wondered that if they had to exit the body in a certain time before returning to their original size didn't the same apply to the dead Donald or the sub craft still inserted inside the body? Doesn't bear thinking about really.

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"...this scene took six weeks to film."

I want to see the Cronenberg version.

Come along and ride on a Fantastic Voyage Slide, slide slippity slide. I do what I do just to survive (sorry it just popped into my head for some reason)

3:56😂😂😂. Apart from the Haloween movies, the only marginally good Donald Pleasance's character I can think of is one of the conspirators in "Night of the Generals", where he... betrays?... the Nazis.. Edit: OK, loved him as a good guy in "The Great Escape"😊.

A lot of the miniatures of the inside of the body ended up getting re-used as props and set decoration in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Lost in Space. Need something weird and off-putting to sit in the alien lair? How about that chunk of the ear canal? Or we’ve got some of the lung wall if you want it…. A lot of the sound effects were also from the 20th Century Fox audio library as well, so those were already familiar to viewers of Fox’s Irwin Allen shows.

Didn’t Asimov have an input on this movie? I remember a quote from him to wit ‘Fantastic Voyage - starring Raquel Welch and 100,000 red corpuscles’

Even as a boy it always bothered me that the miniaturized people had to get out of the guy's body before they grew back to normal size but the submarine, they travelled in was left inside of him. Just a line or two of dialog would have resolved this problem.

Now do Inner Space.

Come on, you’ve got to do Innerspace next…….

Never understood why they needed wetsuits - the 'liquid' they are swimming in is at body temperature

Well, y'know. It wasn't exactly Innerspace. Or EPCOT's Body Wars. Or even that episode of Transformers where they shrunk down to stop Megatron from the inside out. Pfft. How dare they copy and paste those plots twenty years before those plots even existed. :P

No this is a movie that deserves a remake.

Aaaahhh, yes. The movie where Raquel Welch is eaten by antibodies. That's all any 12 year old boy needs to know.

I remember that movie fondly. And: Es war einmal das Leben bzw. Il était une foi la Vie? ;)

I don't have to watch the film now. Looked a bit shit anyway. I think Stam should do 'The Keep', 'Paperhouse,' 'Lair of the white worm,' and 'Murder by Death'

Star Trek TNG did shrink a shuttle with LaForge and Ro on board.

Suspension of disbelief *_(wink)_*

I like the remake innerspace

Shrinking them down… as you do.

Great idea for a movie.... Terrible idea if you're a proctologist.😊

All the crap that gets remakes when this is crying out.

I didn't know this was an Asimov story. But it figures - great concept film, every character actor in Hollywood at the time doing their thing on full throttle, but it's just kind of boring

HHGTTG^? ^Hey, how good to treatise Guide

Now you are talking! One of my Top 20 Sci-Fi Movies ever made. Played deadly seriously unlike that REVOLTING 80s remake - Inner Space - which made a big joke about it. PS Fantastic Voyage has a brilliant musical score!

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The miniaturization process doesn't work that well on breast tissue, apparently.

I just wish you would have clarified defected scientist from the USSR to the USA instead of just saying a defected scientist. I had to rewind and figure out who the dude was that was being saved.

This wasn't funny yet it was entertaining.