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Super Size Me

PG-13

Released May 7, 2004

1 hr. 38 min.

Documentary

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92%

171 Reviews

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72%

250,000+ Ratings

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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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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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colin m

Morgan Spurlock sets out to prove excessive amounts of bad food are bad for you; and if you abuse your body you'll have an abused body. Who knew? (Unfortunately overeating in this extreme way increases the number of fat cells (lipocytes) a person has, which won't be lost subsequently, so he probably gave himself a permanent irremediable weight gain problem by this experiment.)

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Audience Member

Awesome informative movie

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

12/13/22

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Gage A

I guess McDonalds is safe to eat there sometimes. Is a low budget documentary about McDonalds but is experiment. 8/10

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/15/22

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Antonia Quirke

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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

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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

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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

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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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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
Executive Producer: Heather M. Winters
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

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