Super Size Me
reviewed by Brian "the Naked Gun" Felts & Benn "Where's the Humanity?" Farrell

Yikes! This movie should certainly open your eyes to the dangers of fast food if you haven't become aware of it already. Being a super size person myself and have eaten many a Big Mac in my day and I have always known that it has been and will be my choice to go and eat there. This movie is educational and is much more factual based than anything that ass Michael Moore has done.

The basic premise is that the writer and director of the movie Morgan Spurlock, decides to eat only McDonalds food for 30 days straight. Three squares a day. If it is on the menu he can order it, he must order everything at least once, and he will only order the super size if it is offered by order taker. That's the rules.

In the beginning he goes and sees three doctors and gets his health check. He is given complete examinations (and I mean complete, by Dr. Jelly Finger himself,) and is told by the doctors that they don't expect him to have too many things happen to him. Only increased cholesterol, fat, and small weight gain, but they did not expect significant health problems in only 30 days.

The movie is fascinating. Too see the change that happens too the man is scary and worrisome too me. It goes and shows how the advertising affects both children and adults. There is a scene in which Morgan is showing flash cards of famous faces to children under the age of 9. A few could say who George Washington was, only one could recognize the Wendy's girl. But all of them recognized Ronald McDonald. Ironic the one face that none of the kids could recognize was Jesus Christ. Score one for the bad guys.

The movie is very good and should raise awareness to anybody is large. Now if you can excuse me I have to go to the gym, and develop a work out regimen and diet and go see my doctor.

Brian - the Naked Gun

This is one of the best documentaries I've seen in a long time. Morgan Spurlock was very meticulous in keeping to his goal, while giving the viewer valuable information and insights about health concerns in this country.

What I most admire about the picture was Spurlock's bravery in showing how this experiment very quickly made him sexually inadequate.

Allowing his girlfriend to tell the viewers how she must get on top for them to have sex, because he can't for any decent amount of time, was such a bold addition. She also confesses he can't keep his penis hard enough to do the job. This is all info that is extremely valuable to the purpose of his film, and his role as a documentary filmmaker overtook his own ego as a sexually active man. I have the utmost respect for him.

The selection of songs in the picture added to the humor of the information. For example, Queen's "Fat Bottomed Girls" leads us through the main title sequence. I laughed out loud.

I also enjoyed how his picture was focused on one point. The case described in the picture, two girls suing McDonald's were told to provide proof that McDonald's food is not suffient as part of a person's regular diet. Well, two teens aren't able to prove that, but Spurlock was able to.

One of the scariest portions of the picture was in the DVD's extras titled "The Smoking Fry." Sprulock places several McDonald's sandwiches, fries in jars to grow old and breakdown, molding. He also includes a regular restaurant hamburger and fries in the experiment as well.

The food from the regular restaurant broke down quickly, especially their fries, while McD's sandwiches also broke down relatively quick. However, the Big Mac took an unusual amount of time to start molding over.

The scarey part was the McD's fries. After ten weeks, with all sandwiches grown three times over with mold, the McD's fries never got a spot of mold on them. They were shown to have SO much preservatives running through them, it makes you ask yourself the same question Spurlock asks off-camera, "How long do these fries actually take to break down in your stomach?"

The film actually doesn't take too many shots at the quality of McD's food. In fact, he continues to say tastes great and makes him feel good, but its affect on his health had his three doctors shaking their heads saying, "Never in a million year would I have thought you could pickle your liver on a high fat diet." The film mostly takes shots at McD's marketing, as well as every fast food franchise, targeting on children.

Spurlock's picture was solid, insightful, reasonably objective journalism which all persons, overweight or not, should see.

Benn - Where's the Humanity?