Super Size Me (2004)
Kathbur Pictures

Description

Morgan Spurlock unravels the American obesity epidemic by interviewing experts nationwide & subjecting himself to a McDonald's only diet for 30 days. Its as entertaining as it is horrifying - diving into corporate responsibility & how we as a nation are eating ourselves to death.

Tags

Obesity, Fast food

Collected reviews and ratings

10 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

In ''Super Size Me,'' we watch a man gorge on McDonald's until he gets sick of it (literally). He binges for our sins, and by the end you want to see him - and all of us - purged.
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8.8 Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

It’s one of the blackest comedies to hit the screen since Dr. Strangelove. Spurlock proves himself a supersize talent; he makes you choke on every laugh.
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8.8 TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

Though gussied-up with eye-catching charts, goofy graphics and animated illustrations, the film is held together by Spurlock's good-natured sense of humor - he's like a less belligerent and better-groomed Michael Moore.
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8.0 Boxoffice Magazine | Annlee Ellingson

This reviewer, for one, hasn't been back to the Golden Arches since seeing the film.
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8.0 Empire

Very much from the Michael Moore school of comedy/stunt doc-making, although Spurlock avoids Moore’s heftier rhetoric. Consumption will lead to possible nausea and certain amusement.
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8.0 Amazon user reviews

This is definitely a movie worth buying and watching over and over again, particularly when you get the urge to go grab a meal from a local fast food joint. This film caused McDonalds to put an end to Super-sizing before it even entered theaters, and that in itself should say something.
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7.0 New York Times | A.O. Scott

Mr. Spurlock, originally from West Virginia, works in the good-natured, regular-guy populist style of documentary rabble-rousing pioneered by Michael Moore. He is a bit less confrontational than Mr. Moore (as well as thinner), but he similarly relishes letting polite, well-scrubbed corporate flacks entangle themselves in bureaucratic doublespeak.
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7.0 Variety | Dennis Harvey

While docu's slight air of "reality TV" stuntdom and self-promotion make it seem most suitable for TV, its standout popularity with Sundance auds suggest sleeper arthouse success - though any distrib concerned about fast-food tie-in deals should pass on this one.
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7.0 Salon.com | Stephanie Zacharek

"Super Size Me" is exploratory, as opposed to being just numbingly didactic, and that's what makes it so engaging.
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6.0 Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

The film ends up too short and, as a consequence, frustratingly glib. Unlike Eric Schlosser, for instance, who tackles the larger political and social implications of our junk-food culture in his book "Fast Food Nation," Spurlock is happy just to eat and run.
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