Fully understand people feeling duped after watching this film because of the trailer - I only started watching this on a plane flight to pass the time - expecting it to be a light weight romp. NOT SO! This is a moving and thoughtful film with lots of messages which other reviewers has already explained better than I could. It repeatedly went where I did not expect and the characters came to life (looming in prominence) in unexpected ways - a bit like people do as you go through life. Great show stealing performance from Hong Chau. I liked the way the shrinking process was portrayed in a very clinical, no-going-back manner. Sort of unnerving. This film and its messages have really stuck with me for a long time after viewing it... It is much more than the regular Hollywood fair... Well done to all involved (except the sneaky trailer creators!)

A *very* disappointing film, featuring my favorite Martian. I now can certainly see why it bombed so badly at the box office! I was hoping for something fun like Jurassic Park with cool special effects and some thoughtful messages. Instead I got 2 films jammed together into an overly long mess, with heavy messages that turned this into a real downer.Part I is very promising: the invention of downsizing, creation of the small world, the conversion process. Unfortunately, the minute he enters the small world in Part II he is miserable, so we never get to experience the wonders of being small. Instead, we get class warfare, with all the "rich" portrayed as thoughtless consumers who do nothing but leisure activities, attend parties to drink/take drugs, and exploit the poor but noble working class. Interesting how there is no explanation how an entire slum is packed with people in an entirely new world that has only existed for 10 years. It was so heavy-handed the only thing missing was a scene of the desperate underclass selling their organs to survive.In Part III, we suddenly have a tacked-on road trip to visit a cult. Besides moving very, very slowly, the only purpose for this part appeared to be to hammer the climate change message into our heads with a sledgehammer. I kept waiting for Al Gore to appear in a cameo! At the end, our 'hero' ends up right were he was at the end of Part II! They could have entirely cut out Part III and it would have had the same basic message. Will watch carefully to avoid future films from this director.

The first 20 minutes were interesting but the rest of the movie was awful Jesus not worth my time

Slecht verhaal, slecht geacteerd en mega langdraadig.