Review of Downsizing (2017) by Chris S — 06 Jan 2018

What a major disappointment!! The trailer made this movie look like a fun comedy, and it had so much potential for its clever premise. In the first 30 minutes, I was really enjoying myself and think about all the possibilities of what could happen to somebody when they are permanently small.

But everything you see in that trailer is in those first 30 minutes. After that, the entire movie goes a completely different direction and isn't really focused on people being small anymore!! It gets really preachy about environmentalism, classism, and racism, which are important, but that is definitely not how they marketed the movie! People will go in expecting some good light-hearted comedy and sit through a long, dull, serious lecture about how the world needs to change.

I give it 2 stars because of the first half of the movie, but if that wasn't good this movie would definitely get a 1. Worst movie of 2017 I've seen for sure.