Have a picture of Super Size Me (12A)?, please send it to us.
Picture courtesy of Cowcalves.
| Value for Money | 4.5/10  |
|---|---|
| Reviewer Rating | 4.5/10 |
| Overall Rating | 6.3/10  |
Full review by
Kevin Unitt
on 9th Dec 2005
User Rating : 0
Respect :
0
Good Points: That it makes you hungry
Bad Points: That it is just pointless
General comments: What a waste of time the Super Size Me 'movie' is.
So eating McDonald's three times a day for a month makes you fat - incredible, thanks for enlightening us.
It is indeed the 'distortion of reality' the fast food giant claims.
No one in there right mind - unless of course you wanted to make money off a lame documentary - eats it more than around three times a week, so for normal people it would take around 900 years for it to have the same effects on our body as Spurlock experienced.
The direction and script (if there were either) were just dreadful.
The more he ate the worse he felt - surprised anyone?
If he carried on doing it he would die said the doctor - I'm no expert and I could have told you that!
And the most tedious pieces of film ever? Spurlock telling his worried sick mother that he'd be OK, that he only had a few more days to go, as if he was some hero thrust into battle against a giant superpower, when in fact he was nothing more than an attention seeker inadvertently doing a phenomenal promotion campaign for the Golden Arches.
The whole experiment was frankly pointless, and showed us nothing we did not already know:
A - fast food makes you fat
B - Americans will go to strange and stupid lengths to be famous.
Kevin Unitt's review and ratings | 238 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
cowcalves
on 1st Feb 2005
User Rating : 9
Respect :
0
Super Size Me is a brilliant and amusing look at the damage fast food is doing to people, in particualur the American public. After a court case (for making its customers fat) again McDonalds's was thrown up because there was no proof McDonald's is bad for you, Morgan Spurlock goes on a one-man eating mission. He eats McDonalds for 3 meals every day for a month. It may sound pretty boring to watch someone repeatidly eat chips and burgers but it's not. The documentary is a real eye-opener, it ...
cowcalves's full review | 108 words
Would you like to see a review that's not being listed?
