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This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Mc Donald's takes a punch from the documentary supersize me. Directed by Morgan Spurlok and staring Morgan Spurlok, it documents the Mc Donald's involvement in the obesity epidemic raging through America.Filmed over the course of 30 days and chronicling Morgan's Mcdiet in which he must eat from McDonald's 3 times a day breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The point of this is to see what changes, if any, occur physically. Mc Donald's claims that their food can be a part of a balanced, healthy diet and that they don't tell you to eat from their chains but supersize me zones in on the very effective child manipulation of which McDonalds is spearheading .I would give this film a 9/10; it proved an enjoyable insight to the workings of the super-chain McDonalds.

First watched this movie when i was at high school, it was a great idea to alert us, french student, against danger of being a junk-food eater. Few years later, as a medical student, i love watching this kind of movie. I would advice to all to watch "Supersize me", "Fed Up!" and "Food matters". I'm really touched by the fight against those lobbies. We don't have any nutritional formation, but as everybody knows "We are what we eat", this would take its sense by seeing this.The success of companies like McDo or KFC shows us that they are winning a fight, they are making us eating their food, and that's the most alarming problem. Why are teens becoming fat? And so do adults? In this drama, Morgan Spurlock is actually risking his own life in the quest of these answers. That could appear totally dumb but we need this kind of people, courageous and who want to change things. While watching this, you would be confronted to a hard reality, we don't see how things are moving. For the new generation, that's already normal to see junk-food restaurants at each street corner. Watch this, and share it to your friends, you don't have any excuse. It is totally free, go on Youtube, and let's change. I know that this review is very personal but i don't think you could watch it without changing yourself.You can not dislike this movie, simply because it shows us how reality is, if you don't like it, so you don't like how our world is, and then it is up to you to change it at your own scale.

I remember how angry I was at McDonald's at their daily attempt to make our country unhealthy. I knew from the very start that what they call food wasn't really healthy at all. Clearly Mr. Spurlock shows the viewers that poor nutrition leads to inevitable heart problems and general decaying of our bodies. Sure it's also personal responsibility, but at some point we have to blame the fast food outlets that open them up every few blocks for pure profit. This film really brought out the truth about what crap they sell. Clearly during the filming and subsequent publicity, McDonald's started selling more healthy choices like salads; but I think it was too little and too late. Being cheap and readily available doesn't make something good for Americans. Lets' face it America; cigarettes are sold everywhere, millions of people smoke them (almost everyone in Europe smokes them), but That doesn't mean that cigarettes are healthy. For crying out loud, in 1st grade (50 years ago) our elementary school brought in two lungs from cadavers. One was healthy and the other was black and smaller. So just because cigarettes and fast food are sold everywhere, it doesn't mean that it's healthy. We need more education in the schools, we need to teach children how to grow foods in gardens and participate in the same in our neighborhoods. Also, check out this article as well: www.eatdrinkpolitics.com And type in McDonalds in the search box. Not only does McDonald's sell garbage food, but they don't support their own charity with their own clown's name on it. They make the public continue to support it. I know you thought that every time you order a big mac that McDonald's was giving money to support families with children dying of cancer, but they're not. What a great marketing tool. Sure McDonald's gives the Ronald McDonald House the land and building as a gift, but they should continue to financially support them forever. And by the way, I would assume that most of the McDonald's that have been in business over 30 years now owned the adult children of the original owners. That means that these adult children have inherited the businesses; no real estate or equipment debt. Everything's all paid for and highly profitable. I know of many of these adult children here in the Denver area that have in fact inherited "multiple" locations and are simply filthy rich from selling garbage food to families and hurting our country's health. And the $963 million dollars in advertising they spend on every year is sickening. McDonald's: take responsibility for your own charity with your name on it. Stop asking the public to do your job. You and your franchisees should be ashamed of yourselves.

Interesting, illuminating documentary on the fast-food industry.Observing the obesity epidemic in the USA, a documentary film-maker, Morgan Spurlock, eats only MacDonalds meals, three times a day, for 30 days. His aim is to document the changes to his body. He enlists a host of medical experts to keep track of what is happening to himself. Between this he weaves a story of the fast-food industry, and MacDonalds in particular, the food we eat and human behaviour with regard to food.Quite eye-opening and the results are quite profound. If you do eat regularly at MacDonalds, this might change your mind...Also good in that it doesn't pull any punches or try to politically correctly tiptoe around issues. Fat people are called just that and shown up for their own behaviour.On the negative side it is a touch manipulative and, at times, unobjective. A minor compliant though, especially when you compare this with the bullsh*t Michael Moore parades as "documentaries". Moore's films have zero objectivity, contain almost as little facts and are entirely based on manipulation and his own opinions.The other slightly jarring thing is the thought that MacDonalds is entirely to blame for people being fat, and are hence suable for it. Surely fat people only have themselves to blame? Oh wait, it's the 21st century and you're now never responsible for your own actions...