Super Size Me

Pros: Spurlock is funny and engaging, experiment is fascinating and disturbing, interviews are even more so
Cons: Not much. It isn't an airtight experiment, but it wasn't meant to be.

We the People of the United States, in order to form a more sizable union, establish Whoppers, insure McDonalds availability, provide for the Super Sized Meal, promote the general waistline, and secure the Blessings of Lard to ourselves and our ...

Pros: Funny and insightful look at the fast food giant
Cons: Some parts get a little scary

I am a person who outgrew McDonald's when I was in my twenties. It's not that I never eat there. It's just that McDonald's isn't my fast food of choice - definitely not the hamburgers. The last time I purchased a McDonald's hamburger, the first George ...

Pros: Funny moments; Good as a public service documentary
Cons: Non- scientific; Contrived; Biased; Some ignorance

Everyone is aware of the perils of excessive intake of processed, high- fat and high- preservative food. We find foods like this in our grocery stores, in our cafeterias, and in our restaurants. Most everyone knows about the potential health problems ...

Pros: Mildly entertaining
Cons: Perpetuates the myth that we have no choices. It's always someone else's fault...

Listen up America. I'm only gonna say this another million times: YOU are responsible for your own actions. Just you. Not McDonalds. Not Phillip Morris. Not your peers. Nobody. YOU, Damn It! I don't give a rat's butt hairs how many billion someone ...

Pros: looks at various impacts on the diet beyond just fast food
Cons: anecdotal experiment which really doesn't address portion size

One of the first jobs I had in my life was working in a McDonald’s.  I was 18, living in a house with four friends, all of whom also worked there.  At the time, I would say our main source of nutrition came from the restaurant.  If ...

Pros: Witty, relevant, and educational.
Cons: None.

I originally discovered this documentary through my doctor. One day I accidentally let it slip that my idea of a rather good dinner was Taco Bell, which horrified my doctor to such an extreme that he advised me to watch this film. Although I was rather ...

Pros: Spurlock, great scenes, very informative
Cons: None

I first heard about Super Size Me months and months ago when it was in theatres. I had heard that it was like a Michael Moore movie—only about food instead of big leaguing corporate thieves. Since I’m a huge fan of Moore, I definitely ...

Pros: Interesting
Cons: Revolting

How often do you eat at Mickey D's? I guess the idea behind Super Size Me is that your answer would drastically change between before and after watching it. I myself haven't touched the place in five days, since I saw it myself... but I ...

Pros: hilarious, provocative, full of interesting points and interviews
Cons: preachy, propagandistic, goes a little nutty

THE NATURE OF THE BEAST In American jurisprudence, there's a fascinating doctrine known as product liability. If someone makes a product and puts it out there for consumers to use, that product better not be "unreasonably dangerous" (whatever that ...

Pros: entertaining, factual, funny, gross, hit documentary
Cons: none

Ever get really hungry and want a quick bite to eat before work? You probably would want to get a cheap burger, fries, and coca cola value meal from McDonalds. It’s inexpensive and it’s fast; two elements that are necessary during this day in age. ...

Pros: Engaging, Entertainting, Well Informative.
Cons: At Times, You Couldn't Keep Up with its Loads of Info.

Throughout the entire world, you cannot see a McDonald’s everywhere when you’re passing by. Hell, you can’t stop going there for its affordable prices for fries, burgers, McNuggets, Happy Meals, and every other item. Then, to cap things off, if you ...

Pros: Michael Moore had nothing to do with this documentary.
Cons: People Michael Moore's size might benefit from watching this.

Morgan Spurlock embarked on a self-destructive experiment to eat nothing but McDonald’s for one month and see what happens. The result is this documentary called Super Size Me. After watching this movie, I don’t know how long it will be before I eat ...

Pros: Excellent documentary. Not a dull school production.
Cons: Sure. You can question some of the treatments. Fine. Do it.

We are a fat nation. We are an unhealthy nation. If you have not heard that, then I do not know where you live. Heck, I can look in my mirror and figure out that I do not need all that padding for a winter hibernation. While the food companies have ...

Pros: An excellent documentary on a very serious epidemic in America
Cons: The film just hammers one fast food chain and not all of them.

Super Size Me (2004) Written and directed by Morgan Spurlock Morgan Spurlock plays himself The Storyline / plot Morgan Spurlock goes on a thirty day McDonalds diet. It is his intention to find out just what would ...

Pros: funny, engaging, interesting
Cons: see review

If you're going to sit through director Morgan Spurlock's fast food spectacle Super Size Me, be forewarned if you love fast food: this film may make you feel like you never want to eat fast food again. Spurlock lives, in his own words, "every ...