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-r vt 1 1 TJl 1 M- i i i 1 1 i i i i i i i ri I I 1 Tnff inr Mwww'w-fr-w-v-YT i I'VE GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN I VENTURES IN some wonderfully clever scenes. The spies, played by Kevin McCarthy and Fiona Lewis, are finally cut down to size, but they are just as mean when reduced to little pests. Dennis Quaid is well cast as the devil-may-care shrimp of a pilot, but he is effectively aced by Martin Short who proves he's ready for big-time stardom with his engagingly funny performance as Putter. But there's one not so tiny problem: "Innerspace" is overloaded with plot detail to the point where the audience gets a little weary of all the complications. Had director Joe Dante done some trimming it could have been a giant hit instead of the small diversion it is.

ing-looking group of industrial spies invades the Silicon Valley lab. Chased by a one-armed thug, the frantic head of the project heads for the nearest shopping mall. There, he injects the teeny weeny pod into the bloodstream of a perfect stranger, a mild-mannered supermarket clerk who is such a devout hypochondriac his doctor considers him "the cornerstone" of his medical practice. The clerk, Jack Putter, naturally rushes to his doctor the moment he hears the voice of the pilot, Tuck Pendleton, echoing from somewhere inside his body. "I'm possessed," complains the understandably rattled Putter.

"Demons, talk through Dennis Quaid star in "Innerspace" Babysitting," commencing today, resents Elisabeth Shue with a snowballing series of comic escapades as she attends her young charges. Identify the following adventures in babysitting. 1. When Carol Kane complains to police about annoying phone calls, she is told the calls are originating at the very house where she is babysitting. 2.

Babysitter Betty Ann Lynn's schoolgirl crush on Robert Young convinces Maureen O'Hara to hire a live-in child-watcher (Clifton Webb). 3. Swimming his way home via his neighbors swimming pools, Burt Lancaster encounters a bikini-clad secretary (Janet Landgard) who once babysat for his kids. 4. A mental-hospital escapee terrorizes babysitter Jamie Lee Curtis.

5. A mental-hospital escapee terrorizes babysitter Jamie Lee Curtis again. 6. A mentally unbalanced Marilyn Monroe binds, gags and menaces the child she is babysitting for. 7.

Babysitter Patricia Wymer vamps district attorney George E. Carey. 8. Two prankish teenagers (Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane), left in the care of Sharyl Locke, make the mis- i if i if you," responds his doctor, "not to you." Ultimately this weird and whacky science fiction fantasy turns into a kind of buddy movie as the unlikely pair cope with their bizarre live-in situation. Pendleton, whose only hope for survival hinges on a microchip that's now in the clutches of the high-tech thieves, tries to turn the timid Putter into a take-charge hero.

He, in turn, receives some sensitivity training from Putter, whose shy manner clearly impresses Pendleton's reporter girl friend (charmingly played by Meg Ryan). "Innerspace" contains her own lament, "Babysitting Blues." In an even more farfetched scene Sara outdoes her comic book hero by rap-pelling down an all-glass skyscraper with the ease of an experienced mountain climb-' er. Elisabeth Shue has a fresh-scrubbed appeal as Chris. Maia Brewton is an impish delight as Sara, who uses her brother's Clearasil as a substitute for her missing brown Columbus' cheerfully benign depiction of the terrors of the big bad city is such harmless fun that you might even consider giving the baby-, sitter bigtyjpf Bfof gwT Kathleen Carroll By KATHLEEN CARROLL Daily News Movie Cntic INNERSPACE. Dennis Quaid, Martin Short.

Directed by Joe Dante. At area theaters. Running time: 2 hours. Rated PG. Rim HE 1966 SCI-FI MO-VJt 1 vie "Fantastic Voy-1 I I 1 age" featured a fully I MB 'I clothed Raquel Welch as a member of a medical team that is reduced to microscopic size and injected into a human body.

In "Inner-space," a hard-drinking, renegade test pilot agrees to test a submersible pod as part of a hush-hush government experiment The pod is successfully miniaturized, but a menac- Have Them In Trouble yTen ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING. Elisabeth Shue, Keith Coogan. Directed by Chris Columbus. At area theaters. Running time: 1 hour, 37 minutes.

Rated PG-13. pBPI ABYSITTING IS 11 definitely a high-risk 1 mj job. Just look at the ITIIltr I case of Chris Parker. Even though people keep mistaking her for the current Playboy cover girl this sweet, reliable suburban teenager fulfills every parents' fantasy of the perfect babysitter. After all, how many babysitters do you know who also are willing to clean the kitchen? What's more, her current charge, 9-year-old Sara, admires Chris almost as much as her comic book hero Thor while her 15-year-old brother Brad has a crush on his sister's babysitter.

The trouble starts when Chris reluctantly agrees to drive to downtown Chicago to rescue her runaway chum Brenda. Sara, Brad and Dar-ryl (Brad's best chum) insist upon tagging along for the ride. And soon these babes in the suburban woods are facing more perils than Pauline in "Adventures in Babysitting." This mildly entertaining little comedy, which marks the directorial debut of hotshot screenwriter Chris to have borrowed its INSIDE: Martin Short, Meg Ryan and The Gods Must Be Bankrupt: We also inspected David Kendall's obscure Luggage of the Gods before it ended its exclusive 8th St Playhouse engagement en route to parts unknown. An extremely minimalist cargo-cult comedy, Luggage chronicles the cultural shocks a lost tribe of fierce rabbit-hunters experience when a plane deposits a load of Western junk artifacts on their turf. Leads Mark Stolzenberg and Gabriel Barre grunt effectively as Yuk and Tull, the Neanderthal nerds who uncover the title cache.

But their amiable performances and a few laughs aside. Luggage is essentially a one-joke skit pain-fully inflated to feature length. Coming Detractions: In our Ray of Hope Dept, busy thesp Fred Olen Ray will attempt to make amends for his recent Commando Squad dud with an upcoming slice-of-lowlife drama grippingly titled Chainsaw Hookers, starring Gunnar Hansen and Linnea Quigley. Watch for it Trophy's Choice: Congrats to the winners of the 16th Intl. Paris Festival of Science Fiction and Fantasy, who include: Evil Dead 2 (Grand Prize), Monster in the Closet (Humor Prize), Night of the Creeps (Best First Film), Nightmare on Elm Street 3 (Best Special Effects) and Street Trash (Special "Gore" Prize).

Wish I'd Said That Blase dad to concerned mom re: invisible son in 1957's Invisible Boy: "Don't make such a fuss. He's probably doing this just to get attention." A tad late for Father's Day, but an official Phantom T-shirt is on its way to Paul Campo of Clifton, J- Hole In the Ground WE'VE GOT A MAN ON THE Wyner, Rick Moranis Mel Brooks a tkll in Space scatological licks' in favor of riskier conceptual Tiffs: "Yogurt" is a wily merchandiser hawking lunch boxes and towels while praying for a sequel C'Spaceballs 2: The Search for More Dark Helmet literally stops the movie to preview 4 1 the "Spaceballs' video; and the cosmic villains succeed in capturing not our heroes but their stunt doubles. Mel manages to pull off these self-referential gags with 'admirably low-key ease.0 Even the normally obnoxious Joan Rivers, who supplies the voice of Vespa's android chaperoned is restrained here-perhaps Mel'S greatest coup of all. aW CT a A i 'ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING': (clockwise from lower Maia Brewton, Anthony Rapp, Elisabeth Shue and Keith Coogan SPACEBALLS': George filers Having AY THE Schwartz Be With You: The Phantom braved the skate board brigade at a Brooklyn Heights Twin (Henry St) matinee to catch up with Mel Brooks Spaceballs, unspool-ing sans 70mm or Dolby Stereo (whattaya want for A clever if belated Star Wars spoof, the flick finds Mel in fine form, especially as alien elder "Yogurt," a mix of Yoda, SCTV's Sid Dithers and Mel's own 2 000-Year-Old Also onboard are Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet; Daphne Zuniga as Planet Druida's Princess Vespa; the ever-excellent John Candy as Barf the Mawg, half-man, half-dog my own best and the wonderfully revolting mozzarella monster Pizza the Hut, an early contender for the Phantom's "Creature of the Year" honors. In Spaceballs, Brooks largely eschews his usual The Great By CHRIS CHASE GRAND CANYON THE HIDDEN SECRETS.

Directed by Kieth Memll. At the Naturemax Theater. Running time: 33 minutes. RSTSTI AT THE MUSE- I i If I urn of Natural His- I I J) I tory on Central. 1 1 Park West, they're showing what is called an IMAX film on a screen that measures 66 feet wide by four stories high.

Director Kieth Merrill took a crew into the Grand Canyon and spent 78 days there. Using the largest (77-mm) illm stock ever made, Merrill and his intrepid team shot waterfalls, side can yons, the terrifying rages of the Colorado River, the red Hiffs of Toroweeo. the Red Wall Cavern and the" SOuflk Rim of the Canyon, people pretending to be' Spanish conquistadors looking for cities of gold, and people pretending to be an exploring party under -the leadership of John Wesley Powell, who led a group into the Canyon in 1869, and people pretending to be primitive Indians called The Gatherers. I'm not sure Merrill needed all these bodies, but they do provide vivid puny though brave humans against the awful grandeur of nature. "Grand Canyon The Hidden Secrets" is a religious experience, even if you aren't religious.

You will find yourself gasping, and feeling seasick, and finally just marveling at the miracle of the old, uncaring tstones. feet above the water. They went in with horses and mules and backpacks and boats and hang gliders and helicopters, and the results are astonishing. You don't know what "awesome" means until you see and almost feel-sheets of water rushing over a small boat, and you're right there in the middle of the torrent. Or until you watch a photographer, a fly-speck in the vastness, standing on a rock that's a mile high, looking down into a chasm formed by the erosion of millions of years.

Because he didn't want to do "a gorgeous postcard" movie, but rather to "interject the human perspec- BTpdilceauC hisrical knf Anjl ha lias NAME IT: Landgard Lancaster take of teasing wife-killer John Ireland. 9. French TV director Jean-Paul Belmondo discovers the babysitter for his two children (Anna Karina) is an old flame and resumes the affair. 10. Ex-con Broderick Crawford is drawn away from smoking, drinking and safe-blowing by the 13-month-old tyke in his care.

ANSWERS: -iqBa spurn -oi noj oxiaij '6 M-oouH i aaqjoa "9 "U33MOHBH 4 basic plot from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and its menacing urban atmosphere from "After Hours." Ferris Bueller, the suburban goofoff artist, tended to hit only the cultural high spots of Chicago. Chris and her companions are first taken for a ride by a one-armed maniacally jealous husband who claims his missing hand is in the glove compartment of his truck. Later, a car thief drives them to the warehouse where some would-be AI Ca-pones are running a nationwide stolen car operation. "Take the Brady Bunch upstairs," snarls the boss, The movie really perks tup as Chris, urged on by Chicago bluesman Albert Collins, sings PIuJJhase isja'frequerit -svjr r. i i i.