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Super Size Me

Super Size Me

2004
Comedy
Drama
1h 40m
Why are Americans so fat? Find out in Super Size Me, a tongue in-cheek - and burger in hand -- look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
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Super Size Me

2004
Comedy
Drama
1h 40m
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Rated 15 Feb 2010
2
15th
And for his next documentary, Spulock will stare directly into the sun in an experiment to determine why some people go blind.
Rated 12 Sep 2015
70
53rd
I don't like this as a documentary: I just really like looking at McDonalds. Oh man, Jared Fogle scenes. "My big vice was food "No it fucking wasn't.
Rated 12 Jul 2007
45
44th
On a technical level, "Super Size Me" is okay. It looks nice and the pacing is good. However, I don't think it really told anyone anything that they didn't already know. "So, you're telling me that if I solely ate McDonald's food for 30 days, I'd experience ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS?! No shit, Spurlock!" (Heh, like what I did there? God, I hate myself.) If you're interested in take-downs of the fast food industry, you'd really be better off reading Eric Schlosser's "Fast Food Nation".
Rated 05 Nov 2010
40
12th
The first time I saw this movie, I enjoyed it. Yes, eating nothing but fast food is obviously bad for you but I thought the concept was solid (I still do). Watching it a second time, you see how mean spirited and self righteous Spurlock can get. Instead of trying to dig deeper and get the whole story behind the problems with fast food (and why we as a culture are driven towards eating it), he spends that time blatantly making fun of overweight people. That's not a documentary, its just childish.
Rated 20 Mar 2009
1
5th
Wait a second, so this movie is saying that MCDONALD'S is UNHEALTHY? I don't believe it! I am stunned! Holding my breath in anticipation for Morgan Spurlock's next documentary, which turns the harsh light of truth on the sky, revealing that it is, in fact, blue.
Rated 17 Dec 2006
64
42nd
Am I the only one who went out for some McDicks after this? Just thinking about this film is giving me a Big Mac Attack!
Rated 19 Jul 2010
35
13th
Eating McDonalds every day is unhealthy. Shocking.
Rated 20 Aug 2016
78
40th
Watch Fat Head instead. That movie at least has some actual science in it.
Rated 13 Feb 2009
43
16th
If you eat McDonalds for 30 days straight...you get sick?! No way! I couldn't have guessed.
Rated 25 May 2008
43
14th
I did not get anything out of this that wasn't common knowledge. Though he addresses this at the end, how would anyone who ate McDonalds 3 times a day for a month, buying the worst items on the menu not get some sort of deficient health status? This just seems like attention whoring to me. Yes, people eat Fast Food and it's bad for them. Yes, if you eat too much of it, you'll be unhealthy. Yes, gravity exists. Yes, 1 1=2. What a garbage documentary.
Rated 18 Apr 2009
0
1st
Hardly a documentary in the first place. The amount of bias is even ridiculous for the usual documentary. Its also utter garbage. Spurlock should be punched in the face.
Rated 27 Jul 2008
0
0th
Everybody's going to gain that kind of weight if they eat 9 Big Macs per day, you fucking twat.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
25
12th
Eating fast food for a month solid is bad for you. SHOCKER
Rated 19 Dec 2009
50
18th
I will save you the time of watching this idiotic movie. If you are stupid enough to eat at McDonalds everyday for every meal, you'll get fat. This claim has been proven by the University of Common Sense.
Rated 18 Nov 2011
10
6th
You eat fast food for a month, don't exercise and you get fat? NO SHIT? This shouldn't be taken as half serious as it is.
Rated 14 Feb 2009
2
39th
Super Size Me 2: A guy watches Super Size Me three times a day for a month and he gets fat. Whoda thunk?!
Rated 04 Jun 2010
25
19th
So someone eats nothing but fast food for 30 days straight and becomes fatter? What a surprise! Not only that, but he also exaggerates the results completely. Other studies that utilized the same experiment discovered that their results weren't the same as Spurlock's, thus it's likely he completely bullshits the result for the sake of dramatization. For that, among other fallacies, he gets a low score from me.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
55
35th
Morgan Spurlock's 2004 watermark documentary is essentially the cinematic equivalent of what its lampooning: this is fast food film maklng. Easy to swallow, but leaves little food for thought.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
56th
Entertaining and well-made, but really just extrapolated the oh-so-popular theory of "FAST FOOD MAKES YOU FAT!"
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
22nd
While a lot of the information was eye-opening, the apparent surprise that a non-caffiene-addicted health food eater would get sick and fat from eating McDonald's every day is not exactly a revelation. I would have preferred seeing something a bit more scientific. I specifically remember him commenting how he felt "down" until he had his first meal, insinuating that he was somehow "addicted" to McDonald's... as he chugs his super-sized Coca-Cola that he drank every meal. Hello? Caffien
Rated 30 Jan 2007
2
21st
Morgan Spurlock is a douchebag. It's not even a documentary. I mean doesn't something have to be informative to be a documentary? Did he really need 2 hours to make a point that fast food makes you fat? God.
Rated 06 Jan 2007
50
17th
Not exercising and gorging myself on McDonald's three meals a day is unhealthy? You're shitting me. Anyway, that experiment is stupid and pointless, but some of the "documentary" stuff is kind of interesting.
Rated 07 Aug 2012
65
38th
It's one of those documentaris where I'm inherently split. For one I'll give it credit for enlightening the genral public (to something that should have been as obvious as water making you wet, but well, common sense is neither) but one the other hand it's not really a great watch.
Rated 10 Aug 2008
70
76th
Although the message seems obvious, it's very interesting to see what happens to a guy who only eats at McDonalds. I found it actually very scary (the health problems). I used to eat at McDonalds a lot and I experienced some of his problems too (like the headaches). Yes, eating cheeseburgers makes you fat, but I didn't think it can actually make you sick too.... For me it was an eye-opener.
Rated 07 Dec 2009
3
14th
Fails to account for calories eaten, incredibly biased, not funny, and plainly fucking obvious, but I'll give it a score of 3 for making me hungry. Spurlock is a terrible filmmaker, by the way.
Rated 07 Jan 2009
11
7th
this movie made me extremely hungry for micky D's. Immediately after watching this movie I went to grab a large fry
Rated 14 Aug 2007
60
27th
Fat Americans LOL!
Rated 25 Sep 2010
67
57th
I don't feel the point of the film was to enlighten people to the fact that fast food is bad for you (if you don't realize this you are a bit of an idiot) but to show how utterly insanely bad it is for you. I didn't fact check the results by completing this challenge myself (cause I don't want to die) but the data gathered from his experiment (and the concern of the doctor) were compelling.
Rated 28 Jan 2014
20
4th
So a guy that was previously on a vegan diet starts eating meat (fast food at that) for a month straight and gets sick? Durrrrr!
Rated 28 Jul 2021
67
27th
I have a difficult time getting into most documentaries unless the topic really interests me, and I can't say I was too thrilled about this one. Additionally, Spurlock might have understandably put on weight, but he didn't need to make himself out to be such a pansy with the puking and all.
Rated 18 May 2007
37
32nd
Reasonably entertaining, but lacks anything informative. Really more of a mockumentary than a documentary, so it basically misses the mark before it even begins.
Rated 11 Mar 2008
60
2nd
Some amusing parts, but I'm not so sure it's fair and unbiased.
Rated 22 Feb 2013
50
18th
Morgan Spurlock constantly condescends his audience. It's grating. His experiment is a little too theatrical, and it's told in such a way that it's our main plot - where not much happens. He touches on more interesting things, but only briefly - such as the effect of lobbyists for the food industry on politics, body image and media studies, and a little bit of commercial interests ruling people's diets and lives. But it's gotta be all about Morgan, doesn't it?
Rated 06 Feb 2009
65
72nd
Neat documentary, although after watching it I immediatly went out for some McDonalds with my friends.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
79th
Great documentary chronicling Morgan Spurlocks descent into obesity and unhealthy living as he dared to live on an all Mcdonalds diet.
Rated 04 Jul 2008
82
76th
While many people state that the film's fault is that it doesn't provide enough numerical and scientific evidence to be a great documentary, I disagree. In the health field there is now a large push for how people feel in relation to their health and how quantifiable data is not the end all be all of personal health. This documentary does have a decent amount of quantifiable data but focuses far more on how Morgan feels, and that is very, very important when concerned with personal health.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
68th
Very entertaining, but not really informative. It was interesting, but I don't think it really revealed that much to me. It's actually a fair bit of fun though.
Rated 24 May 2017
70
56th
I don't eat McDonalds and I'm still fat. FUCK YOU SPURLOCK!
Rated 26 Nov 2012
55
36th
Admittedly, it's very interesting, but it is not a particularly good film.
Rated 08 Mar 2007
2
15th
Entertaining; I was just underwhelmed by the actual information. Fast food is unhealthy, of course. But how many people actually eat it every day? Well, actually, a surprising amount eat it a lot more than they should. But I doubt they think it's good for them, either. So it's kinda "Duh." Fun to watch, though, even if Spurlock strikes me as a bit of a douchebag.
Rated 22 Apr 2007
2
21st
The first time it's somewhat entertaining watching a guy slowly murder himself. The second time you realize how pointless it is.
Rated 16 Sep 2011
45
32nd
An interesting movie, and Spurlock is likeable enough, but his refusal to disclose the statistics and the logs of his consumption is discouraging and I'm afraid that this film has misled a lot of the public. It was an entertaining movie, good enough for me to rate it relatively high compared to other terrible movies I've seen, but I hate misleading the public with propaganda like this. Spurlock's experience would have been the same if he'd gone to a 5star restaurant and consumed the same cals
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
84th
Very entertaining documentary. Similar to Bowling for Columbine in how it uses different techniques to present the material in interesting ways. The director/star is also a really funny guy. The movie isn't exactly eye-opening, because everyone knows fast food is bad for you, but it is kind of a shot in the arm to get so much information about it at once, and to see just how bad it can mess you up.
Rated 04 May 2014
42
12th
I didn't get this at all. This was some of the worst acting I've ever seen. I mean, he looks right into the camera sometimes. I don't think the director really knew what he was doing either. It felt kind of improvised, like there wasn't a finished script when they began shooting.
Rated 30 Jul 2009
80
79th
Sickening, but well-done. Ofcourse everyone knows McDonalds food is bad, but here it shows how bad it is to a healthy human-being in a few weeks. I already hated fast food, but hate it even more after this documentary
Rated 08 Jun 2007
80
60th
Pretty solid documentary, but didn't really tell us what we didn't already know.
Rated 26 Sep 2018
35
34th
Becomes a lot less interesting when you learn that no subsequent study has ever been able to replicate Spurlock's results. Not that there isn't good material in here but it really makes you question all the other facts presented in this documentary.
Rated 14 Mar 2014
40
9th
Guy nearly kills himself to prove McDonald's is bad for you. It'd get a lower score, but Super Size Me is surprisingly entertaining for a documentary and it has a decent message. But if you need it, you also need a better brain.
Rated 10 Jan 2013
10
0th
Completely fabricated and inaccurate bunk. If you eat McDonald's everyday you will not get fat, UNLESS you eat more than you need and you sit on yer butt all day and what you eat consists of the bread and sugary soda. Totally out-of-date thinking. Watch "fat head" people!
Rated 12 Sep 2013
20
13th
Generally pretty bad. This man takes needless risks to show something that should have been already in the forefront of the American zeitgeist: when you eat a lot of fatty, highly processed foods, your body hates you! Wow! Who'da thunk it?
Rated 18 Sep 2009
68
25th
Fairly entertaining if completely ridiculous experiment.
Rated 31 Jan 2009
65
13th
I was more tired of Sprulock than the crappy Mac D's food
Rated 04 Jan 2016
90
35th
Fast food is bad?!?!
Rated 06 Apr 2009
86
82nd
A lot of people said, that the effects of eating fast food is obvious. Is it? Is it REALLY expectable - to get 10kg in 30 days? Uechh! I found that disgusting and unexpectable. And a fact, that most Americans don't know what calory is? Well, I am from Europe and I know it. My 15 years old sister knows. This is not only about fastfoods, but also about the twisted way of "American dream".
Rated 10 May 2009
50
14th
No real surprises here. An hour and a half is excessive to prove eating fast food three times a day can be unhealthy. Entertaining in places.
Rated 14 Oct 2008
85
34th
sickning
Rated 11 Feb 2024
20
6th
Propaganda
Rated 20 Jan 2009
70
5th
Interesting at the beginning. But I kind of already get the point after watching it for 10 minutes and so the rest of it was wasn't really captivating for me.
Rated 28 Sep 2023
60
54th
You know, he makes a good point! This type of film would not be possible to make these days as the rise of social media has put an end to cinema in that form. Thankfully I first saw it not long after its initial release.
Rated 29 Aug 2012
70
31st
Although I hate shaky cam, this one should be watched by everyone who loves junk food - like me..
Rated 14 Aug 2007
25
8th
Idiotically obvious. Wow. I really learned something here.
Rated 30 Jul 2007
76
37th
No amount of scariness in this film could outweigh my love of the dollar menu double cheeseburgers.
Rated 11 Sep 2007
90
79th
I haven't eaten Mcdonalds since I saw this movie.
Rated 29 Dec 2009
74
55th
informational and funny
Rated 18 Jan 2010
1
4th
What was the point of this?
Rated 06 May 2008
91
78th
I love documentaries, and I'll never eat another McDonalds french fry as long as I live.
Rated 06 Nov 2011
68
25th
Doesn't really do much with itself.
Rated 15 Dec 2019
64
26th
Cut-rate Michael Moore style expose is fatally compromised by the absurdity of Spurlock's thesis "diet challenge": this feels like placing your hand repeatedly on a hot stove and tearfully wondering why you are getting burnt hands! When it sticks to the pernicious methods fast food chains have used to infiltrate the culture, the film picks up, scoring a few salient and fair points, but the frankly pathetic tearful breakdowns are much tougher to stomach than any Double Quarter Pounder!
Rated 14 Aug 2007
70
56th
It ingrains itself in your psyche and makes you really question just what kinds of things you are putting in your body, and how many of the unhealthy feelings you might have might be a result of bad eating choices.
Rated 04 Nov 2012
5
38th
Eating McDonald's all the time and not exercising makes you fat???
Rated 03 Jul 2012
55
36th
Interesting the first time around, but I really wish I hadn't tried to watch it again.
Rated 03 Feb 2008
50
26th
The guy knows how to present a story, that's for sure. Only problem is there really isn't any story to be presented here.
Rated 10 Jun 2009
65
41st
Disgusting look at what a diet containing of only McD-menues will do to you.
Rated 23 Oct 2019
96
89th
Although a bit heavy on the fear-mongering propaganda, it took some serious balls to go this deep into such an alarming concept. There should be more documentaries like this.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
80
87th
Great film, with shocking insights into the effects of McDonald's on the human body. Loved it all.
Rated 01 Nov 2008
70
60th
Fascinating doc about the manipulation of the food industry and the ignorance of the public. A frightening reality given the state of health of many North Americans.
Rated 17 Aug 2010
90
87th
It's real and that's very sad.
Rated 20 Dec 2013
93
83rd
Entertaining doc about the adverse effects of eating fast food.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
85
73rd
Interesting.
Rated 21 Apr 2007
55
23rd
A vegan alcoholic eats a ridiculous amount of burgers and then blames his damage from the alcoholism and a major diet change on the food he's eating, without mentioning any of this until years later. Look, of course processed food isn't good for you, but this is nothing more than an ego trip on Spurlock's part. It also doesn't hold up even if you don't know this, as there's a guy in here who eats McDonald's every day and seems to be in decent health! Why did we watch this in school?
Rated 15 Jan 2010
40
33rd
Spurlock is a hack.
Rated 07 Sep 2011
93
68th
shocking
Rated 29 May 2007
7
57th
Yes, eating fast food will lead to weight gain but this is still a fun watch, mostly because he eats McDonald's for 30 days and throws up a lot for our viewing pleasure. Kudos.
Rated 22 Sep 2007
85
40th
An excellent documentary about McDonald's and the obesity problem in the States. The movie goes on to explore marketing ploys as well. A very good cautionary tale with Morgan adding in his own brand of humour at regular intervals turning "serious" into "serious fun".
Rated 14 Aug 2007
90
83rd
very informative and an addicting premise
Rated 17 Nov 2010
73
46th
Saw this in my English class in year 11 and all my class-mates just felt hungry after watching it. Kind of a failed documentary in that regard.
Rated 08 May 2011
70
48th
Successful in that I no longer wanted to eat at McDonald's for a few months, which was probably a very good thing considering the only fast food in the town I am from is McDonald's. Admittedly though, eating McD's every meal of every day for a month is probably the worst way to prove its unhealthy because everybody knows. Thats like getting addicted to meth to prove the negative effects on your health from it.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
100
92nd
very entertaining, and very thought provoking.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
84
83rd
Unfortunately, this lifestyle is a way of life in the US.
Rated 18 May 2008
75
48th
Sort of an obvious premise, but reasonably well done.
Rated 21 Jun 2009
65
13th
Spurlock doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know, but his anecdotes and vomit punctuate his argument. Yes, his methodology is flawed, but that was never the point.
Rated 17 Apr 2010
55
26th
Morgan Spurlock makes his point enough here though really a film about eating McDonalds for a month can only be so entertaining but like I say he makes his point and educates the casual viewer and I will never eat chicken nuggets again.
Rated 10 Sep 2007
80
91st
Not nearly as insightful as it wants to be, Super Size Me is still an incredibly entertaining viewing experience, gimmick be damned.
Rated 11 Jul 2008
60
34th
Junk food is bad for you. We know this. It is not designed to be eaten exclusively. Still an entertaining film though.
Rated 30 Aug 2007
95
84th
Interetsing and informative. Everyone should see it.
Rated 28 Dec 2007
86
81st
a good documentary. I don't feel like I was lied to when I watched this movie.
Rated 08 Apr 2007
45
38th
Let's all hate McDonald's together! (Really not much to draw from this film...it's entertaining? But it's rather worthless/purposeless, since we all know McD's isn't going to make you healthier or whatever when you eat it and nothing else for a month.)
Rated 31 Dec 2007
82
65th
A very funny documentary in the style of Micheal Moore's recent outings. I didn't learn much, but I'll watch his next one, as he's a very likable guy. His doctor was also a favorite of mine, just a very intelligent man who seemed somewhat annoyed with Spurlock at all times.
Rated 17 Apr 2011
79
39th
Pretty funny documentary!
Rated 17 Sep 2008
52
76th
Uhm

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