“Downsizing” (**1/2 out of four) was a pleasant but pointless social satire about a stressed-out middle class husband (Matt Damon) who realizes he would have a better financial life if and him and his wife (Kristen Wiig) shrunk themselves in a process called “downsizing” but his wife changes her mind at the last minute, leaving him abandoned and to begin exploring his new life. Director Alexander Payne tries to make many socio-economic and social points and Damon is engaging as always but the problem is there isn’t much of a point to the story as a whole. After it’s premise is established and once Damon is shrunk it really doesn’t have anywhere to go and it’s fatally overlong at over two hours. Watchable but inferior to a lot of director Payne’s previous works (“Election”, “Nebraska”).