Super Size Me (2004)

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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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Directed By: Morgan Spurlock

Written By: Morgan Spurlock

Starring: Morgan Spurlock, Dr. Daryl Isaacs, Lisa Young, Lisa Ganjhu, Kelly Brownell, Stephen Siegel, Mark Fenton, Bridget Bennett, Eric Rowley, Alexandra Jamieson, John Banzhaf, David Satcher

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Documentary

Franchise: Super Size Me

Country: USA

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1. Netflix Instant (collaborative: moderated by somnivore - 29 stars)

2. Netflix USA (public: mpowell - 8 stars)

3. Best by different standards (public: sesito71 - 6 stars)

4. Food (collaborative: moderated by Zang - 5 stars)

5. Availability: Netflix Canada (collaborative: moderated by geohawk - 5 stars)

6. Top 3000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 5 stars)

7. Oscar Nomination: Best Documentary, Feature (collaborative: moderated by sengir - 4 stars)

8. Top 2000 movies with the most votes on IMDb (public: fanfic - 2 stars)

9. Consciousness (collaborative: moderated by arandur)

10. NOT YET WATCHED (collaborative: moderated by atoerk)

11. Available in SD (collaborative: moderated by Jorg)

12. Mind blowing collection (collaborative: moderated by hakkanarejo)

13. 2004: Year in Review (public: polanski28)

14. My Movie Collection (public: elhenzo)

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Stars	User	Rating
8	BillyShears	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.
8	Judge Holden	2 _15th
And for his next documentary, Spulock will stare directly into the sun in an experiment to determine why some people go blind.
6	Boobjuice	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".
5	joseywales	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!
4	Ytadel	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.
4	omgfridge	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.
4	OfTheAllies	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.
3	grimace98	25 _12th
Eating fast food for a month solid is bad for you. SHOCKER
3	TedDedon	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.
3	TheRealJ-Ro	0 _0th
Everybody's going to gain that kind of weight if they eat 9 Big Macs per day, you fucking twat.
3	ewp805	43 _16th
If you eat McDonalds for 30 days straight...you get sick?! No way! I couldn't have guessed.
3	qwertyfreak	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.
3	Fermi	35 _13th
Eating McDonalds every day is unhealthy. Shocking.
3	BeeDub	78 _39th
Watch Fat Head instead. That movie at least has some actual science in it.
2	Pickpocket	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.
2	slackerish	75 _56th
Entertaining and well-made, but really just extrapolated the oh-so-popular theory of "FAST FOOD MAKES YOU FAT!"
2	td888	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.
2	rdub384	11 _7th
this movie made me extremely hungry for micky D's. Immediately after watching this movie I went to grab a large fry
2	Bagger	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.
1	MartinTeller	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.
1	doctor7	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.
1	jimmynmu	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.
1	idiot27000	85 _79th
Great documentary chronicling Morgan Spurlocks descent into obesity and unhealthy living as he dared to live on an all Mcdonalds diet.
1	Puck	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
1	Punchinello	60 _27th
Fat Americans LOL!
1	BBBD	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.
1	Briare	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.
1	Alex Watkins	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.
1	Nathan S	2 _21st
The first time it's somewhat entertaining watching a guy slowly murder himself. The second time you realize how pointless it is.
1	Grit	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.
1	WoozyB	80 _60th
Pretty solid documentary, but didn't really tell us what we didn't already know.
1	Q31	60 _2nd
Some amusing parts, but I'm not so sure it's fair and unbiased.
1	Luna6ix	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.
1	begoniabol	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
1	Melvin Smif	65 _72nd
Neat documentary, although after watching it I immediatly went out for some McDonalds with my friends.
1	Pepsi-Man	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?!
1	SirStuckey	70 _56th
I don't eat McDonalds and I'm still fat. FUCK YOU SPURLOCK!
1	jmarkthespot	10 _6th
You eat fast food for a month, don't exercise and you get fat? NO SHIT?? This 'documentary' shouldn't be taken as half serious as it is.
1	Dunder74	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.
1	AndreasThau	55 _36th
Admittedly, it's very interesting, but it is not a particularly good film.
1	Velvet Crowe	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.
1	hellboy76	67 _58th
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.
1	RyanJLind	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
1	Paxton	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.
1	zenmovie	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!
1	hsncrspywl	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?
1	syrikaru	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?
1	Judgewestenn	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!
1	thereeldeal	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.

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