Super Size Me (2004)

Morgan Spurlock is a strange individual who has made a strange film. The topic of this film is fast food. Morgan Spurlock is also a little bit of an idiot. Because I think that it is understood that when you eat nothing but McDonald’s for a month after you’ve been a partial vegan, you are going to feel like what you’re passing in the McDonald’s restaurant, and you are going to get fat. That, right there, is my single biggest complaint about Super Size Me. I have a couple other complaints, but that was my biggest one. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do like this movie. I like it a good bit. I don’t love it like a lot of people do, I think it’s a bit overrated, but it still is a good film, even thought it works more as a piece of entertainment than a documentary where you learn something. This experimental independent documentary by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is about the fast food industry, and how it affects America. And that, in itself, is an interesting topic that Spurlock has expanded. He goes through an experiment to show how awful fast food is, especially McDonald’s, while interviewing people around the country. This experiment has Morgan, previously eating vegan meals every day (but not all the time), eating McDonald’s food (and only McDonald’s) for 30 days straight. And when he is asked to Super Size it, he has to. He can only eat food from the restaurant, and is required to eat everything on the menu. Those are the rules. And with these rules, Morgan Spurlock gets fat, sick, wheezy, and some other things that I do not care to mention right now. But in short, it is bad. And Spurlock also talks to other people about the negative effects of McDonald’s. One of my other problems with the film is that it’s kind of redundant. A lot of the film is spent with the same message being beaten over your head. And the film would be a complete mess without the humor that Spurlock puts into it. He makes watching this movie that would be a complete wreck funny. The humor makes the film enjoyable. And the film is enjoyable. This is an extremely enjoyable documentary. It’s just a bit redundant (like this review) and flawed. But even if it’s the same message for 100 minutes, at least it’s a message that sort of matters.
7.5/10