Super Size Me |  | Actors: John Banzhaf, Bridget Bennett (II), Ron English (III), Don Gorske, Mary Gorske
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  489 reviews
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Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 99
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 08543
UPC: 043396085435
EAN: 0829567014721
ASIN: B0002OXVBO
Release Date: September 28, 2004
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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject in this documentary about the commercial food industry. After eating a diet of McDonald's fast food three times a day for a month straight Spurlock proves the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it's schools corporations and politics. "Super Size Me" is a movie that sheds a new light on what has become one of our nation's biggest health problems: obesity.System Requirements:Running Time: 100 Min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:nbsp;DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:nbsp;PG-13 UPC:nbsp;043396085435 Manufacturer No:nbsp;08543
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Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, rejected five times by the USC film school, won the best director award at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival for this alarmingly personal investigation into the health hazards wreaked by our fast food nation. Under extensive medical supervision, Spurlock subjects himself to a steady diet of McDonald's cuisine for 30 days just to see what happens. In less than a week, his ordinarily fit body and equilibrium undergo dark and ugly changes: Spurlock grows fat, his cholesterol rockets north, his organs take a beating, and he becomes subject to headaches, mood swings, symptoms of addiction, and lessened sexual energy. The gimmick is too obvious to sustain a feature documentary; Spurlock actually spends most of the film probing insidious ways that fast food companies worm their way into school lunchrooms and the hearts of young children who spend hours in McDonald's playrooms. French fries never looked more nauseating. I--Tom Keogh/I
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 Cover art is accurate... July 12, 2010
Joe Blow
The message is good, though obvious to anyone with half a brain, "junk food is bad". The execution is horrible.
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br /I won't point out how the experiment is flawed. You can read numerous reviews that do this.
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br /The title of my review is "Cover art is accurate" for a reason. I found it repulsive to watch this guy eat. He smacks loudly, chews with his mouth open, and talks with his mouth full throughout the movie. One would have thought that someone on his production team would have tought him some manners. I guess not.
 Super Size Meals Lead to Super-Size Persons June 6, 2010
Ronald Guidotti (Minden, NV USA)
An entertaining yet critical look at how fast foods can adversely affect health when taken to extreme. Fat, sugar, and salt add up to being too hard to pass up in processed foods. Many of the fast food establishments don't provide caloric information about the products that they sell, making it difficult for consumers to determine which ones to avoid. The film documents the weight gain that occurred by eating at McDonald's restaurants three times a day for a month and not exercising. While this isn't realistic for most people, it does point out how one can easily start putting on weight by patronizing fast-food establishments too often. Blood testing during this time showed a deterioration of some body functions as a result of such a diet, so there are definitely health risks here for long-time patrons of fast food. Fortunately, the trend was reversible by reverting to a healthy diet afterwards. All in all, a very interesting documentary. With the growing obesity epidemic in the US, this leads to later health problems, like diabetes, which will all will end up paying for one way or another.
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br /What is distressing is that China is now on the same road as we are in this regard. With increasing prosperity, the Chinese are giving up their bikes for cars---almost certainly without catalytic mufflers, so the air pollution will become even worse that it is now. In addition, they are becoming more sedentary in their life style and now eating fast foods just like in the States. On top of this, there is not national health program in China. If you get sick, you are on your own. Check back in 10 - 15 years to see how China will look just the the US!
Entertaining and Eye-Opening May 14, 2010
Kelly Klepfer (Iowa)
Entertaining, shocking and horrifying details follow and the viewer gets an education that may inspire some serious rethinking of what is allowed on said viewer's table. Well worth the time investment.
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br /Super Size Me inspired my family's love of quirky documentaries. (Super Size Me is also joined by the classic Best In Show Mockumentary on our list of favorites.) Though we first saw Super Size Me a few years ago it is in our DVD library and we have watched it several times. And our youngest daughter used Spurlock's findings in a recent term paper.
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br /Though this documentary was just the beginning of our awareness of what you eat can kill you, Super Size Me made a lasting difference in our lives. Now bad choices in food are still guilt-ridden but Spurlock's experiment and the knowledge that came from it helps us to avoid mindless eating. This documentary was fascinating from a medical and psychological standpoint and entertaining, too. The extras are worth watching.
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 Morgan's Doctors Don't Get It. May 5, 2010
T. Knew (St. Louis, MO)
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Apparently, Doctors are Stupid!
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br /As I'm finally watching this film for the first time, and they make some decent points, but for all the wrong reasons. He attacks, on multiple instances, companies that produce sugary products, but when they talk about his health, they always avert to his "high-fat" diet. I'm not even a doctor, and I could tell, from looking at his blood work that he was sucking down sugar, more specifically, high fructose corn syrup. OF COURSE a bunch of HFCS is gonna make you store fat, raise your trigs, raise uric acid, and your cholesterol numbers. The dummy doctors, however, all seem to be bent on demonizing the fat. Also amusing, the bearded doctor repeatedly compares the liver damage to alcoholism, which is COMPLETELY inline with what Robert H. Lustig says HFCS will do to you.
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br /I wonder if Spurlock would have achieved the same results if he would have swapped his milkshakes for diet cola, and his cokes for water, and not done the deserts. Of course he wouldn't have, but then again, he wouldn't have gotten anywhere close to the near 5,000 calories per day that he was consuming. Spurlock wasn't eating typical meals in his three meal a day binge. Dude was throwing in sugary sodas AND milkshakes with meals, (show me one person who has ever done that.) Deserts would have had to been every day. And he only supersized 9 times? How much extra crap, (as in: SUGAR,) did you add on top of your 3 "squares" a day?
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br /The only aspect of the film I can get with is when he addresses what kids are eating in school, (not, however, the nonsense about food peddling to kids.) School diet plans are a joke, but that's partially due to the FDA and USDA making dumb choices like calling Ketchup a serving of vegetables. I would have liked this movie more if it was an attack on school nutrition and not hopelessly attacking fast food, and for the wrong reason no less. I especially liked the schools that kicked the soda out!
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br /I really thought it was interesting that he made so many arguments about all these companies and their sugary products, but every time he got in front of the doctors they only talked about his fat intake. ESPECIALLY considering that his blood work showed tell tale signs of excessive glucose/fructose intake. Then again, what do I know, I'm no doctor. Maybe I should look those guys up and send them a copy of Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage), or direct them to the youtube video that spells out how fructose does exactly what is indicated by his bloodwork.
The Danger of Excessive Fast Food April 24, 2010
Eric Mayforth (Houston, Texas)
"Super Size Me" is the famous documentary in which narrator Morgan Spurlock personally saw how unhealthy a steady diet of fast food was by eating nothing but McDonald's food for thirty straight days.
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br /Spurlock relates statistics on exercise and obesity, including the estimate that one third of Americans born in 2000 may develop diabetes. The narrator interviewed lawyers, academics, doctors, media figures, and government officials about excessive fast food consumption and its effect on our nation. The narrator also shows how fast food companies market to children to hook them on their products for life.
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br /The narrator underwent regular weigh-ins and blood work during the process, and the movie shows the drastic effects of this diet on the body after a month. Spurlock lists twenty medical conditions commonly exacerbated by obesity. A warning for parents of children who might watch the documentary: there is one scene that shows stomach-size reduction surgery for a man who could simply not control his eating and drinking, and other scene that discusses the effects of excess weight on intimacy. There is also scattered profanity in the film.
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br /Fast food is processed food, and I can add my own personal warning about one of the restaurant's sandwiches. Early in 1992, I became hooked on the McRib, eating one every week before going to a gathering at my college that I used to attend on Tuesday nights. After a couple of months, I abruptly decided to drop that habit--on the final Friday evening in April that year, I got severe food poisoning from a McRib and was sick all weekend.
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br /The bonus features on this DVD include scenes not used in the documentary and an interview with "Fast Food Nation" author Eric Schlosser.
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