[Marauder727]

Here's the problem folks...

We love to see process. We love to see people (usually lovely females) shrinking out of their clothes. Problem is this...that kind of thing automatically sends this into a serious PG-13 to an R rating according to the current standards. If the movie industry is going to make money on these kinds of things, they've got to be sure that their efforts are going to return big bucks.

Now I can say that seeing shrinking in a movie like the one suggested would be pretty cool, and if there's a good plotline to it, then it might be good. However, there is a fairly sizeable group of the population who would see shrinking and immediately chalk it up as a hokey gimmick that would ruin the story. I mean...how many movies have you seen that weren't relegated to B-movie status or less the moment something like shrinking or growing was involved?

Ant-Man (thank you Marvel comics) gave us the first good shrinking movie...but the shrinking wasn't the central plot of the movie. It was a tool used to make the plot move along. The movie was, essentially, a heist movie, and they were very careful about how shrinking was used.

Admittedly, every time you see a movie or a tv show involving shrinking (or growing), there's a part of the human psyche that goes, "Yeah, that's neat, but it isn't real." So unless there is a lot of other things going on that makes the story work, it loses credibility.

This story "Micro" sounds really good, but you're talking about process where they shrink out of their clothes (nudity issues there), surviving at such a small size (believability factor drops) and what they have to do in order to return to normal (believability factor drops even further). What's funny is that the same believability factor doesn't take as much of a drop when you're talking about gargantuan sentient robots (Transformers), or mystical, magical pirates (PoTC) or impossible stunts with cars (Fast & Furious), but the moment you mention shrinking...some people's eyes glaze over or they roll their eyes and think, "Oh God, not another Incredible Shrinking Woman movie. Puhlease."

Animated films have a little more leeway - Ferngully anyone? Or kid movies - Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (still a great one)...but if you try it on the big screen in a major motion picture not relegated into those genres...forget it. *Sigh*