Super Size Me

My problems with the documentary are largely personal the first being I can't look at Morgan Spurlock without thinking about Jim Rose and his circus sideshow and the second would be along the lines of the opposite of Oprah's "aha" moments....as in "duh...what the hell do you think is going to friggin' happen if you live off of McDonald's only for a month?!?!?!??!?! My thoughts aside this is, sadly, an important piece of work....important that for some reason people just aren't getting it through their collective fat heads that fast food is not healthy. There are some truly terrifying moments in SUPER SIZE ME, especially the scene with that now skinny idiot from the Subway commercials and the students listening to him...you will just sit there scratching your head in awe. Spurlock not only delivers an important message here, he entertainswhile doing so making SUPER SIZE ME a fun piece to watch. I gather he wrote a book after this and I'm told he divulges the practice of American beef producers buying the corpses put down cats and dogs which are then ground in with the feed for the cows and this would have been a juicy little bit for the film but unfortunately it's not there. This should be a no-brainer but for folks wishing more information on the ill effects of the fast food industry grab a copy of the book, not the film, FAST FOOD NATION by Eric Schlosser which is damn near scary enough to make a vegetarian out of the staunchest of carnivores.