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*** “Innerspace.” Warner. $89.95. PG.

Densely inventive and consistently hilarious, this 1987 tale of technological miniaturization and personal growth is blessed with two warm and marvelously adroit actors to carry it along. Dennis Quaid, as the relentlessly macho yet quite vulnerable test pilot, has gotten a corner on the securely sexy American male roles, while Martin Short, a brilliant Canadian actor-comedian, served notice with this performance that there may be nothing he can’t do. Directed no-nonsensically by Joe Dante, “Innerspace” is certainly crammed with action, but it’s one of the rare Spielberg-touched productions that doesn’t suffer from numbing Gargantuanism.