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Super Size Me
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0829567014738
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Arts Alliance Amer
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Arts Alliance Amer
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Arts Alliance Amer
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Arts Alliance Amer
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Editorial Review:
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a feature documentary; Spurlock actually spends most of the film probing insidious ways that fast food companies worm their way into school lunchrooms and the hearts of young children who spend hours in McDonald's playrooms. French fries never looked more nauseating. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Do you want to lose weight? Watch this documentary.
Yes. We all know that McDonald's is bad for us. And yes, this is a little bit like telling smokers that they are killing themselves. We know. That's not really what I like about this movie, even though it does take great pains to dissect the marketing campaigns and food production aspects of McDonald's.
What makes this movie important is the fact that it made me paranoid enough about the food I eat (and I keep kosher so I don't eat at McDonald's anyhow) to lose 20 pounds. I don't mean ... Read More
Rating: - Everyone should watch
Every parent, teenager, teacher, doctor, etc. should see this one. Yes, we have all heard it before, but not documented to this extent. It is one man's experiment but quite eye-opening. I wish the little bit of bad language and couple of "gross" scenes had been left out, but I have heard there is a family friendly version coming that could also be shown in schools.
Rating:  - Only slightly entertaining, and worthless as a documentary
Before I saw this "documentary", I wondered "what's the point?" I have been hearing about how bad fast food is for you since I was in grade school (the 1980's), and people have been complaining about McDonalds advertising to children for as long as I can remember. Super Size Me is about 90 minutes of "fast food is bad for you" and "food companies are evil and they sell stuff to children". So to make a long story short, there is mostly nothing new here, other than the creator's "Jackass"-style stunt ... Read More
Rating: - McDiet equals McStroke
McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Wendy's Burger King, Dairy Queen what do all of these restaurants have in common besides workers being paid minimum wage and offering artery clogging food in large quantities at cheap prices: they have overtaken the food market and supposedly are to blame for making America the fattest country in the world.
Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, after reading about two obese girls suing McDonald's for making them fat, decides to go on a "diet" a McDiet in ... Read More
Rating: - the barbecue fire is calling me!
This film was shot to illustrate how dangerous over eating burgers etc might be but after watching it, it just made me wanna eat a big juicy burger even more:) i ordered double whopper menu and enjoyed the guilty pleasure of calories...long live burger king!!!
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