Super Size Me

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Super Size Me

PG-13

Released May 7, 2004

1h 38m

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Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic.

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Critics Consensus

Entertaining doc about the adverse effects of eating fast food.

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Antonia Quirke

London Evening Standard

For all the film's lecturing about the rise in diabetes and good and bad fats, you suspect that its director is secretly just having a laugh with the whole thing.

Dec 14, 2017

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Fascinating documentary on American fast food.

Rated: 4/5

Dec 28, 2010

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

Might help shake the Mcfaithful out of their special sauce stupors.

May 4, 2005

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Might just change some minds and lives in a way that a more sober-sided Nightline treatise on fast food couldn’t.

Rated: B

Sep 19, 2022

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

I think McDonald's is safe.

Rated: 3.0/4.0

Sep 24, 2020

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

May affect how you eat and will serve as a rude awakening...

Apr 29, 2009

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Stephen C

Real footage in 1 hour and 38 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated PG-13 for Language, Graphic Medical Procedure and Sex and Drug References!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The USA grossed over $11,500,000.00!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/20/25

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Rich J

This is complete BS. It is portrayed as factual but it is chock full of lies.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

06/12/25

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Oaklee D

An interesting documentary. Some parts haven't aged well, the Jared Fogle segment especially. But that's not the fault of the film itself due to being released before his crimes came to light. Give it a watch if you want to kill some time.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/04/25

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Gabriel M

Poorly written movie and stupid lines around 20 minutes into the film. Should’ve been rated R. Waste of time!! I just found out how the dude who made this film named Morgan Spurlock was a sexual predator by reading his Wikipedia page. It’s a darn shame he gets away with assaulting woman, and sad his victims never got justice. Thank goodness he’s dead.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/25

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Thomas S

Simply terrifying. As a hypocondriac, watching this gave me the chills

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

08/08/24

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Yoosik Ethan O

A very interesting way to show the effects of the American diet on our health, as opposed to just making a documentary that preaches fast food is bad for you. Like I said, a clever and interesting concept, but not a very safe one for the filmmaker. His journey through this month long diet was interesting but I could’ve preferred not to see the behind the scenes of someone’s gastric surgery. The irony here is after watching this, I was tempted to go to McDonald’s and I know I’m not the only one. RIP to the filmmaker who recently passed; I can’t help but wonder if this month long McDonalds binge is what finally did him in though.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

06/02/24

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Synopsis

Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic.

Director: Morgan Spurlock
Producer: Morgan Spurlock
Screenwriter: Morgan Spurlock
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co: The Con
Rating: PG-13 (Language|Graphic Medical Procedure|Sex and Drug References)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 7, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $11.5M
Runtime: 1h 38m

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