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DVD ~ Morgan Spurlock
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  • Actors: Morgan Spurlock
  • Directors: Morgan Spurlock
  • Format: Anamorphic, PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Palisades Tartan
  • DVD Release Date: 10 Jan 2005
  • Run Time: 97 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00067ISBA
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,447 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Fans of Morgan Spurlock's engaging documentary Super Size Me won't want to miss almost an hour of extra footage on the DVD. Best of all is a 25-minute one-on-one interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, but other interesting moments are a chat with a couple who collects McDonald's memorabilia; an analysis of a supermarket's layout; further conversation with Big Mac fan Eric Gorske and his wife; a look at the deep-fried Twinkie; and a disgusting but funny piece on how McDonald's food rots (or doesn't). Spurlock also provides a commentary track along with his girlfriend Alex Jamieson (you know, the vegan chef) in which they discuss why he included certain scenes, how many times he ate McDonald's salads, and his recommendations for books to read and action to take. And because he and Jamieson received so many inquiries about the "last supper" he ate on film before embarking on his special diet, an insert contains the recipes, including the highly sought-after tofu and vegetable phyllo tart. --David Horiuchi


Synopsis

In this hilarious yet informative documentary, debut director Morgan Spurlock makes himself the victim of a cruel experiment: he puts himself on a 30-day diet of nothing but McDonald's food. Eating three meals a day exclusively from McDonald's, Spurlock's health quickly deteriorates. The film documents the process from beginning to end, with Spurlock and his doctors making observations and monitoring the changes to his energy level, moods, liver and kidney function, and obviously his weight. As viewers might predict, Spurlock gains weight at an alarming rate, and during this process he offers a shocking lesson about the serious problem of obesity in America. Clearly McDonald's receives the brunt of the blame, as Spurlock shows how the fast-food restaurant directs its advertising at small children, who are converted into faithful consumers of the brand--and its free toy giveaways, bright colors, and Ronald McDonald clown--for life. Spurlock also examines the quality of the food itself, showing the processes by which favorite products like McNuggets are made. He also shows the proliferation of McDonald's chains both in the U.S. and worldwide. Meanwhile, Spurlock's girlfriend--a vegan chef--observes Spurlock's experiment with disgust and disdain, providing one of many comic elements to the film. Educational, fun, and at times downright gross, SUPER SIZE ME takes a different approach to illustrating America's obsession with fast food.

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars finger-lickin' frightening, 20 Jan 2005
As a keen fast food lover myself this dvd made me feel physically sick, especially the extra footage of the fries. Macdonalds fries did not decompose or gather mould at all, not even after 10 weeks or standing. Imagine what they are doing in your body!

Its not only a great watch for the health conscious, but for those dieting and losing motivation, watch this! you will never fun so fast on that treadmil or eat so much salad! It has certainly turned my views around.

I found this dvd entertaining, shocking, frightening, disgusting and funny. What more could anyone ask for? But I will warn you, it made me very very hungry!

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Super Size Me, 17 Jan 2006
By M. Terry "emptyplod" (Hertfordshire) - See all my reviews
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A thoroughly entertaining, thoughtful, gut-wrenching, informative and well-presented documentary. Always funny while presenting serious dietary information and global consumer fare in an impactive and min-boggling way. I found this well made, contemplative, unassuming and yet tightly produced. The frightening results are quite literally dreadful and disturbing and anyone contemplating a fast food diet needs to see this first.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fallen arches, 30 Jun 2005
By Budge Burgess (Kilmarnock, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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Many years ago, a Canadian friend achieved the ambition of a lifetime by taking a trip to China. She woke up first morning to discover a McDonalds down the road from her hotel. She felt harassed. She'd spent her whole life trying to assert her own culture and escape the clutches of US monopolies. But the franchise of the bland had beaten her to China, ready to burger yet more of the world's great cuisines.

"Super Size Me" is the latest, and one of the most successful, efforts to geld the Golden Arches and stop their further reproduction. As an institution, McDonalds has been in the visible vanguard of globalisation. George Ritzer's books "The McDonalization of Society" and "The McDonaldization Thesis" exposed the firm's single-minded pursuit of economy, efficiency, and standardisation in marketing and supply. It's not just that the burgers taste the same wherever you go, but the product range and treatment of staff are the same - and there are few concessions to local culture. As a Scot, I'm still outraged they pinched a solid Scots name for their flabby firm!

Of course, it's in its homeland, the USA, that McDonalds grew fat, and it's there that Morgan Spurlock carries out his experiment in gastronomic monogamy. Remaining faithful to a diet of burgers, chips, salt and sugar, Spurlock puts on nearly two stone in his thirty day marathon as he eats his way across the States, dining nowhere but McDonalds. He gained nearly a pound a day! Not to mention his cholesterol levels peaking!

Lest you imagine that the whole film is an extended version of the publicity poster and DVD cover, we don't spend a couple of hours simply watching Spurlock stuff his face. This is actually a decent attempt at investigative journalism - and to be seriously welcomed for that. It's an interesting trend. In recent years the world's major newspapers have largely forsaken their investigative role - I can still remember the Sunday Times Insight Team coming up with real news. Much of the newspaper and magazine industry is now given over to hype - celebrity tittle-tattle and PR stories.

But television has been biting back with some investigative exposures. And Michael Moore has demonstrated that radical - even partisan - research can break through in the cinema and DVD market.

So, more power to Spurlock's elbow. His film takes a bun in cheek look at the USA's eating habits. He doesn't just grow fat off the bland, he talks to people, interviews people, explores the science of the composition - or decomposition - of the burger. It's horrifying stuff.

An excellent, well-paced documentary, making good use of humour and ... yes, irony. "Super Size Me" is further proof that a low budget film can break through and challenge, not just McDonalds, but the whole, hyped-up film industry with its dependency on stars and special effects. An excellent package with a very acceptable set of extras.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Imagine that
Unlike the loathsome Michael " I'm making a buck out of hocking a soundtrack of the sounds and artists that inspired the movie 9-11" Moore, Morgan Spurlock spins out a... Read more
Published 15 days ago by Mr. Paterson

1.0 out of 5 stars A cheap shot
Guess what happens if you eat lettuce and nothing else for a whole month. You get sick!
Guess what happens if you eat lard and nothing else for a whole month. Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. Mccann

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant - I havent eaten there since i watched the film!
This is absolutely fantastic. My whole family have never eaten there since we watched the results on Morgan. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Brendan T. Hole

5.0 out of 5 stars The face that lunched a thousand chips!
Super Size Me is a clever film. Its message - that eating junk food like McDonald's hamburgers is bad for you - is not in itself sufficient reason to make people want to watch the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Jon Chambers

5.0 out of 5 stars If you are obese by the age of thirteen, there's an 80% chance you will be obese for the rest of your life...
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What makes "Super Size Me" worthy of it's undoubted five star rating is that, on each viewing, you come away with something different to think about. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 2007 by Deanne Dixon

1.0 out of 5 stars sensational and confused
Fast food establishments provide a service and supply a demand in a profitable market.
The product is demanded by the customer. Read more
Published on 10 Jan 2007 by Chris S.

5.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Eat at McDonalds Anymore
This film has had an impact on my life. In the 18 months since I watched it I have been to McDonalds twice. Read more
Published on 8 Jul 2006 by Mr. A. E. Hall

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Documentary
I never knew what McD's meals could raise your liver enzymes.. what an amazing discovery.. but then again, any fatty meals could do that.. particularly those frequent ones.. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2006 by MeL

4.0 out of 5 stars Great concept and a point made
I loved this film although I did find it somewhat naive in its efforts to spur people on to doing exercise and not eating junk food. Read more
Published on 2 May 2006 by M. O. HAYNES

1.0 out of 5 stars It made me want a Mcdonalds
I blame Michael Moore. Thanks to him, it has become acceptable, fashionable even, for any pseudo intellectual with their own video camera to spend 2 hours trying to impose their... Read more
Published on 14 April 2006 by Daniel Arnold

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