Super Size Me (6½ Year Anniversary) PG-13
The first ever reality-based movie ... everything begins and ends in 30 days!
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 28, 2010
- Originally Released: 2004
- Label: Virgil Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Morgan Spurlock |
Entertainment Reviews:
It's one of the blackest comedies to hit the screen since DR.STRANGELOVE. Spurlock proves himself a major talent...
Rolling Stone
May affect how you eat and will serve as a rude awakening...
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Cinema Crazed
SUPER SIZE ME is a deliciously amusing socio-culinary prank....Witty, gross, smart, outrageous, and so clever it just about pops.
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
I'm willing to believe Spurlock's hypothesis ... but someday I'd like to see a well-researched documentary as lively as this one on the harmful effects of pseudo-science in the media.
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Paste Magazine
[A] rigorously argued portion of investigative journalism that hits the spot, served up with a smile by Spurlock...
Sight and Sound
[A] hilarious indictment of the nauseating excesses of our increasingly obese society.
Movieline's Hollywood Life
For all the film's lecturing about the rise in diabetes and good and bad fats, you suspect that its director is secretly just having a laugh with the whole thing.
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London Evening Standard
Product Description:
In this hilarious yet informative documentary, debut director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's health quickly deteriorates. The film documents the process from beginning to end, with Spurlock and his doctors making observations and monitoring the changes to his energy level, moods, liver and kidney function, and obviously his weight. As viewers might predict, Spurlock gains weight at an alarming rate, and during this process he offers a shocking lesson about the serious problem of obesity in America. Clearly McDonald's receives the brunt of the blame, as Spurlock shows how the fast-food restaurant directs its advertising at small children, who are converted into faithful consumers of the brand--and its free toy giveaways, bright colors, and Ronald McDonald clown--for life. Spurlock also examines the quality of the food itself, showing the processes by which favorite products like McNuggets are made. He also shows the proliferation of McDonald's chains both in the U.S. and worldwide. Meanwhile, Spurlock's girlfriend--a vegan chef--observes Spurlock's experiment with disgust and disdain, providing one of many comic elements to the film. Educational, fun, and at times downright gross, SUPER SIZE ME takes a different approach to illustrating America's obsession with fast food.
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