Matt Damon Previews ‘Downsizing’ And It’s A Unique Movie You Won’t Soon Forget

Las Vegas — Shrinking down to the size of an bug has it privileges. That’s what Matt Damon and Kristen Wiig’s characters learn in “Downsizing.”

During Paramount Pictures’ CinemaCon presentation Tuesday, Damon previewed an extended clip of the upcoming dramedy, and it’s safe to say it was a showstopper. The clip begins with Damon and Wiig’s characters, a couple, attending a seminar where they’re being sold on the benefits of being medically shrunk down to five-inches tall. Neil Patrick Harris plays the salesman.

In front of a room of proportionally sized adults, Harris’ character shows off his miniature dream mansion and his equally tiny wife, played by Laura Dern, who is shown leisurely lounging in a bathtub and dripping in diamonds. She helps sell the benefits of being small by announcing to the audience she only paid $83 for her tiny jewelry.

Wiig and Damon are seemingly sold on taking the plunge to become little as the next scene shows them talking about their options to live in “Leisureland.” They’re told by their salesperson, played by Stacey Nash, they will have a comfortable $12.5 million to live off of if they liquidate their $152,000 life savings.

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Damon and Wiig’s characters agree to the change and they’re next shown in the hospital waiting for their five-hour shrinking procedure. When it’s time to operate, Damon is sent to a men’s division of the hospital and prepared for the change of his life.

First, he’s shaven and left completely bald… everywhere. Next, he’s knocked out and, along with dozens of other men going through the same procedure, taken to a dentist who removes all of his teeth. From there, he’s transported into a large machine, stripped naked and plied with shrinking solution.

After a brief moment, he and the other patients are shrunk down. When the procedure is done, he and the other men are scooped up with spatulas, given a fresh set of teeth and brought to recovery, which is manned by small hospital workers.

In recovery, Damon’s character is welcomed by a nurse, who jokingly brings him a human-sized packed of Saltine characters. She laughs and says she’ll bring him a more proportionate-sized snack and the preview ends.

“Downsizing,” directed by Alexander Payne, is due in theaters Dec. 22.