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| Super Size Me | 
 enlarge | Actors: John Banzhaf, Bridget Bennett (ii), Ron English (iii), Don Gorske, Mary Gorske
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $9.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (465 reviews)
Sales Rank: 852
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 96 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 08543
UPC: 043396085435
EAN: 0043396085435
ASIN: B0002OXVBO
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Product Description
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:DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating:PG-13 UPC:043396085435 Manufacturer No: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. --Tom Keogh
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 One of my faves September 21, 2008
I bought this DVD because I had heard it was really good, and I was certainly not let down! It really opened my eyes as to just how terrible fast food is and what lack of nutritional education is doing to adults and children. I would recommend this film to anyone!
Excellent September 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Morgan Spurlock is everything Michael Moore pretends to be as a documentarian. I recently caught his documentary Super Size Me at a budget theater & hope the DVD will have many features. For those who don't know SSM is the best political documentary this year- far better than MM's lamentable Fahrenheit 9/11.
Both films have baddies- W. Bush & McDonald's, both have their filmmakers as stars- MM & MS, but MS has a few things going for him that MM doesn't- 1) a penchant for being honest, 2) a message that affects all his viewers, & 3) a sense of self-deprecation. He demonstrates this by deciding to guinea pig his health in testing whether or not McDonald's fast food is really bad for you. He vows to eat nothing but McDonald's for 1 month straight.
He starts off with a routine physical exam- which shows him to be in above average physical shape for a man I'd reckon is in his early 30s. His month-long odyssey will take him across the country, & to the brink of serious health issues. This is all documented by a cardiologist, gastroenterologist, internist, nutritionist/dietician, & physical trainer- not to mention his vegan chef girlfriend, Alexandra Jamieson, whose almost self-parodically the typical bored white girl with no better cause to be for.... All in all Super Size Me is a terrific film that entertains & enlightens. Can someone eat healthily at a McDonald's? Not really- but the point has gotten to the point that that's not really the point. The point is this can kill you as slowly & surely as cigarets, alcohol, & drug abuse. Here's hoping that MS becomes as big a name as MM, so that he will be able to tackle a varied subject palette. While MM is all windy style over substance MS shows that substance has its adherents too- you just have to remember to pass the gas.
 An, er, revelation September 15, 2008
In which we learn that fast food, when consumed excessively and for long periods of time, can cause some health problems.
Great Movie September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is especially important to be viewed by families who have small children on up, a real reality check on American eatting habits.
Shock & Awe Diet ! September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a personal testimonial to shock and awe the fast food population. He is so brave to test on McDiet 3 times a day for 30 days and evaluate the effect and impact on his body, vital organs and function in an unqualified unscientific experiment.
Fast food industry such as McDonald is an American free market success story in offering a popular meal fast, inexpensive and tasty not from your local kitchen but from the factory headquarter with one standard formula.
Who patronize the fast food? Who can resist the temptation of a smiling clown of Ronald McDonald and the playground with cheap toys? Who super-size your order and punch your vital organs with pounds of sugar and other "junk" leading to health-care crisis? Who are jointly and severally liable to the damages?
The fast food industry grows fast in other third world countries. Will the foreigners
blame US for getting American diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney problem, heart trouble, over-weight and cancer?
This film reminds us the goodness of slow home cooking grandma used to make.
WARNING: Eating fast food die-t can be habit forming and hazardous to your health!
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