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Super Size Me

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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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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. Go to Full Review
Nell Minow Common Sense Media Dec 28, 2010
4/5
Fascinating documentary on American fast food. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness May 4, 2005
Might help shake the Mcfaithful out of their special sauce stupors. Go to Full Review
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. Go to Full Review
Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Sep 24, 2020
3.0/4.0
I think McDonald's is safe. Go to Full Review
Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed Apr 29, 2009
May affect how you eat and will serve as a rude awakening... Go to Full Review
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Fifty T @RT01421419 Nov 4, 2026 Disgusting, Shocking, Funny: The Doc Every Teen Should Watch Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me hits like a gut punch you didn't see coming. He turns his own body into an experiment by eating nothing but McDonald's for 30 straight days, and the results are brutal to watch. The cheeky idea quickly spirals into weight gain, mood crashes, and scary warnings from his doctors. Diary footage mixes with sharp interviews on how fast food companies push their stuff on everyone, especially kids. It's funny in a dark way, which makes the ugly truth land harder. It should have won the 2005 Oscar. Two decades later it still holds true - and is becoming true elsewhere as these chains expand globally. The style is original and humorous, which makes it all the more shocking. Glad I showed it to my teen kids... hopefully it stays with them. This isn't just entertainment; it's a wake-up call that makes you think twice before hitting the drive-thru. 8.5/10: Solid watch that holds up strong. See more
tanner W @RT05923662 Sep 19, 2026 As a doc movie it’s nothing special but the real problem is that the whole Doc is a lie. He was a major alcoholic that was the real cause to the doc. In my opinion this doc requires a warning that it’s not truthful See more
Brett L @RT24956711 Sep 18, 2026 People glossing over the fact that this movie is packed full of lies and Mr Spurlock was a raging alcoholic during the filming astonishes me. He didn’t just eat McDonalds for 30 days. He engorged himself on it. Eating way more than he would normally while also drinking heavily. Many people have tried to duplicate his results of just eating their meals at McDonalds and haven’t come close. It’s really sad after all these years people still deify him and this fake ass movie. Yes it possibly assisted in bringing about changes to the fast food industry, That doesn’t change the fact that he was a total fraud. See more
John K @WQCMI Jul 19, 2026 Say what you want about this documentary, but it did help spread a message about healthy eating and the consequences of eating fast food. See more
Jerry W @Jerry169 Jul 1, 2026 There should be more enlightening movies like this one! See more
Rianne M @Maddenr May 19, 2026 This is truly a gratuitous documentary. If we are to treat it seriously, which is what the documentary seemingly wants us to do, it has a very flawed methodology, a laughable sample size, and a research question whose answer was already very well established; what a waste of time and resources. See more
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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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