Super Size Me

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Super Size Me

PG-13,

2004,

1h 38m,

Documentary

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92%

162 Reviews

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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.

Critics Consensus

Entertaining doc about the adverse effects of eating fast food.

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Antonia Quirke

London Evening Standard

Dec 14, 2017

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.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

Dec 28, 2010

4/5

Fascinating documentary on American fast food.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

May 4, 2005

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

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Sep 19, 2022

B

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

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

Sep 24, 2020

3.0/4.0

I think McDonald's is safe.

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Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Apr 29, 2009

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

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Luke W

Mar 19, 2019

Morgan Spurlock proves what fast food can do to you if you catch yourself eating it everyday. It is an eye opening documentary that will want to stop making you eat fast food for good. I have to give Morgan Spurlock credit for eating nothing but McDonald's for 30 days because it was a very brave journey that had its consequences and he put his health in danger to prove what fast food can do to you.

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Mar 18, 2019

I really love this documentary. Itâ(TM)s a good movie. This is one documentary where you can learn a lot about McDonaldâ(TM)s like how itâ(TM)s extremely bad for your health and you can get really fat. Itâ(TM)s good to learn the history about McDonaldâ(TM)s. And itâ(TM)s mostly about Morgan spurlock going out to McDonaldâ(TM)s and seeing what would happen when he eats nothing but McDonaldâ(TM)s for the whole 30 days straight. He would become an obese American and that it would be unreasonably dangerous. My favorite part in the super size me movie is probably when Morgan eats McDonaldâ(TM)s on the 2nd day and of course he throws up and he gets sick. Oh my god! I laugh super hard.

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George S

Nov 6, 2018

This is one of the best ways to get people to understand what happens to your body when you eat a lot of junk food every day for a month.

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Kylo G

Oct 8, 2018

Eye-opening, interesting, and entertaining.

Anakin M

Jul 12, 2018

This documentary is terrible, he eats to excess and surprise, he gets fat. Dude went from a vegan diet to eating double quarter pounders daily and blames a fast food joint for making him feel like shit. Skip this one.

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Harry S

Jul 9, 2018

The film that made it unacceptable to eat or feed your children McDonald's. This film forced one of the largest, sprawling corporate empires to change its ways. This film is one of my top five films of all time. It is one of the most influential pieces of journalism we have.

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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

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Heather M. Winters

Executive Producer

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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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