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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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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Honest D

McDonald's is over priced and unhealthy garbage. Their prices are an insult to everyone. Great documentary. It's hilarious.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/13/24

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Outer Splatter G

It helped me opened eyes even more to obesity and fast food consumption. Overall a really great documentary.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

11/08/23

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Tstaff 7

This is how to make a documentary! Top notch!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

06/04/23

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Connor A

An interesting documentary about how unhealthy McDonald's and similar fast-food restaurants really are. This film came out in 2004 and now in 2023 not much has changed, McDonald's is still the biggest fast-food chain in the world and America's still has an obesity problem. While this film hasn't convinced me to give up fast-food altogether, it has made me think and be more aware of the side effects that eating this food can cause and I think that was the main point of the film. It's an interesting experiment and worth a watch. Also it's creepy seeing Jared "the Subway guy" talking to teenage girls years before he was found out.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/02/23

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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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