In the beginning I understood that to be downsized you would have to pay - a lot. So all of Matt's cash was invested in it - house and possessions sold - nothing left. Wife doesn't go through with it. Are we supposed to believe she got a refund? This seemed more like a giant scam than a world saving enterprise. If everybody had to pay giant sums to live in these little worlds - then why were there the equivalent of ghettos in different areas. Ok - so these people need servants - but there seemed to be a lot of sick -poverty stricken - starving - disabled people living there too. These people were no use to anyone - so why were they there? Just to make Matt and the Vietnamese woman look good. If I were to give up all my worldly possessions with the promise of living in an Utopia - then I wouldn't appreciate a slum around the corner. And did they work into their equations the increases in population because these were enclosed communities - they couldn't expand. The film would have been more interesting if the game was to take everybody's money - downsize them and then make them mysteriously disappear which wouldn't have been too difficult. They should have made it possible to regain normal size so as the little folk could fight back and expose the company. All this social preaching just turned the film into a borefest. There is only one way to save the world - and that is to reduce it's population - not the physical size of it's population - that is a false premise which would simply encourage people to breed even more.