Super Size Me
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Movie Reviews of Super Size Me
Movie Review: Fat Food
Summary: 5 Stars
Morgan Spurlock, a documentary film maker, took his life in his hands when he decided to study what would happen to his body if he only ate McDonalds for a month. More than just gain weight, the fast food empire took a toll on his physical health, his sexual lebido, his energy, helped him form an addiction and, according to his doctors, did a number on his organs. I've heard some people say that this film is irrelevant because they don't eat fast food all day long but whether you do or not, what your putting in your body from just eating a little is terrible for you. What I find humorous is the fact that since this film was released McDonalds has put salads and the like on their menus, but recent studies have shown there's more fat and calaries in their salad dressing than in a cheeseburger. So I guess it really wasn't an improvment. I think the biggest eye opener of the film is the way McDonalds targets the children, which we all knew, I mean we were all kids once and we loved our McDonalds, but getting in the schools and the like is a shame. Our kids have no escape from childhood obesity, and the earlier that happens the harder it will be for our children to get over it. The film also shows how despite the fact we all would rather eat healthy, the fact remains that fast food is more accessible than healthy food, it's cheaper and quicker and on every corner. The food that's good for you cost over twice the amount of the food that's not, and with a McDonalds on almost EVERY corner it's much easier to walk into one of those then say a Subway, spend $5 at McDonalds and get two burgers, a fry and a drink as apposed to $10 at Subway, and that's just a sub and a small drink. So you see the problem lies in our society, a society that almost forces average citizens to eat what they shouldn't. It's sad. This film is an eye opener of epic proportions indeed.Movie Review: Entertaining and well done
Summary: 5 Stars
There is a lot of buzz going around about Michael Moore's documentary Fahrenhiet 9/11. But no one is really talking about filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's new documentary Super Size Me all that much. Obesity has become the second largest preventable death in the United States after smoking and Super Size Me really puts that into perspective. The concept of this movie is great. Morgan puts McDonald's food to the test by pledging to eat three square meals a day for 30 days of nothing but McDonalds. Throughout the film he keeps track of the effects it has on him. His sex drive becomes almost non-existant, his body fat goes up by 7%, he puts on 20 pds, his cholestorol raises by a whopping 65 points, etc.. Throughout the film Morgan uses his experiences to demonstrate just how damaging McDonalds and fastfood in general can be to those who eat it on a regular basis.
Super Size Me was a great movie overall. Not only does the film chronicle Morgan and the effects the food has on him, but the effects that fastfood has on Americans and obesity in general. Even though Super Size Me is meant to be a serious film for the most part, it was also extremely funny and entertaining in some parts as well. Morgan becomes addicted to McDonalds after the first two weeks and has mood swings where he only feels good after he eats. I especially enjoyed the segment where Morgan's girlfriend complained about the affect his new diet had on their sex life. Not to mention the fact that Morgan forced himself to super size his meal everytime he was asked - hence the title.
The special features on the DVD includes a shocking test called the "Smoking Fry" in which McDonalds fries are put into a mason jar and sealed to represent what they would look like breaking down in your stomach. The results will shock you!!
A solid 5 stars...
Movie Review: If You Want McDonald's After Watching This...
Summary: 5 Stars
If you want McDonald's after watching this, you need your head examined. Morgan Spurlock explores to the inth degree what we all know-- fast food is bad for you. It's loaded with calories, fat, sodium, and stuff that you don't even want to know about. Eat it all the time, and you'll see and feel the negative effects it has on your body. As a former fast food junkie myself, I cringed everytime Spurlock ate a McDisgustinglyHugeSandwichThat'llMakeYouFat. Sure, you can eat this stuff maybe once a month and be okay, but honestly, should you even do that??
Spurlock eats McDonald's for thirty days. Morning, noon, and night. Whatever he eats must be from McDonald's. No eating veggies on the side. On day three, he's so sickened at the amount of food that he's eaten that he throws up. After that, after this "hump," he's fine. But he's not fine. He's gaining weight at a rate I didn't think possible, his cholesterol goes bad, his organs are messed up, and the doctors are telling him to quit doing this to his body. This was a once healthy guy! We watch as he morphs from a healthy, happy guy, into a Mcdepressed, Mcman-boobed, McDonald's junkie.
This documentary is riddled with all kinds of cool facts-- from calorie counts to what schools are serving (which is really intereseting-- get this-- it doesn't cost much more for a school to serve healthy foods than it does junk and soda, but they do it anyway! Why? Because they don't CARE!) I knew that America was the fattest country, but I didn't even think about it being close to "the stupidest." It's not that Spurlock is bashing America, he's just stating the facts. And quite frankly, it's hard to swallow. Like the millionth McGriddle. After watching this, I was immediately inclined to take a walk. That's how powerful the message is.
Movie Review: this movie SAVED MY LIFE.
Summary: 5 Stars
i could not recommend this movie more highly. more than anything else that i have EVER seen, watched, or read, this movie had an amazingly profound impact on my life. i watched it because i had heard so much buzz about it. at the time, i was recuperating from a broken ankle which had kept me pretty sedentary for seven months and left me with an addiction to painkillers (i'm now in recovery). i was completely out of shape and very overweight. in addition, i was depressed to the point of suicidal thoughts; i self-medicated with whatever drug i could get my hands on. in short, i was a MESS.
i was so impressed with how the food that morgan spurlock ate in this movie affected his ENTIRE body and his well-being. it may sound ignorant, but NEVER before had i made a connection between how i ate and how i felt. i knew that unhealthy food led to being overweight and to being, well, unhealthy, but i never made the mind/body connection. for the first time in my life, i started a new eating plan that was based on getting healthy, natural, organic, whole foods into my body. it had NOTHING to do with losing weight or being skinny. it was simply about getting better fuel for the machine.
i have now, as a complete "side effect", have lost almost 40 pounds in four months. i am down four pants sizes. and i only JUST started going back to the gym, so that is WITHOUT exercising. i feel better, i sleep better, and the best part of all is that my depression has DRAMATICALLY subsided. i have never eaten fast food again and my cravings for things that are not good have pretty much gone away. i am on a wonderful healthy path and i don't think i will ever go back to my former way of eating/living again.
thank you, morgan. thank you.
Movie Review: The Danger of Excessive Fast Food
Summary: 5 Stars
"Super Size Me" is the famous documentary in which narrator Morgan Spurlock personally saw how unhealthy a steady diet of fast food was by eating nothing but McDonald's food for thirty straight days.
Spurlock relates statistics on exercise and obesity, including the estimate that one third of Americans born in 2000 may develop diabetes. The narrator interviewed lawyers, academics, doctors, media figures, and government officials about excessive fast food consumption and its effect on our nation. The narrator also shows how fast food companies market to children to hook them on their products for life.
The narrator underwent regular weigh-ins and blood work during the process, and the movie shows the drastic effects of this diet on the body after a month. Spurlock lists twenty medical conditions commonly exacerbated by obesity. A warning for parents of children who might watch the documentary: there is one scene that shows stomach-size reduction surgery for a man who could simply not control his eating and drinking, and other scene that discusses the effects of excess weight on intimacy. There is also scattered profanity in the film.
Fast food is processed food, and I can add my own personal warning about one of the restaurant's sandwiches. Early in 1992, I became hooked on the McRib, eating one every week before going to a gathering at my college that I used to attend on Tuesday nights. After a couple of months, I abruptly decided to drop that habit--on the final Friday evening in April that year, I got severe food poisoning from a McRib and was sick all weekend.
The bonus features on this DVD include scenes not used in the documentary and an interview with "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser.