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Director: Morgan Spurlock; Release Date: February 28, 2005
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Sep 5, 2012
- by RabidChihuahua
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What can I say? This is ridiculously stupid for the fact that Morgan Spurlock tries to point out how unhealthy McDonald's food is by eating it for a whole month. Of course if you eat crap like that for a month, you're gonna get tons of health problems. But really, if you eat too much of anything, even healthy foods (such as only eating fruit for a whole month), you're gonna get sick one way or another. Moderation is the key for everything.
You don't need a movie like this telling you that fast food is unhealthy. Just use common sense.
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Pine_Bluff_Variant
October 07, 2012
True, this was a real pointless documentary. "Hey, eating McDonalds every day makes you fat!" Gee, does it really?
RabidChihuahua
October 07, 2012
Even an eight year-old could have figured out the core message in this movie without a silly goose eating McDonalds for a whole month and showing his declining health.
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woopak_the_thrill
September 08, 2012
in some ways, this was amusing, but it was utterly based on an utterly pointless theme.
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BaronSamedi3
September 07, 2012
What I hated most was the fact that he seemed to be making subtle but heavy-handed hints that people are supposed to fall into a very specific definition of health and beauty.
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June 14, 2007
Pros: One can take McDonald's playland balls and hurl them at certain DVD cases Cons: Disgusting, inappropriate, and off-topic The Bottom Line: Watch this if assigned to, or if you have a stomach of iron. Plot Details: This opinion reveals everything about the movie''s plot. Turn Up the Valium I was first exposed to this documentary in a rhetoric class. After inserting the DVD, she asked us to let her … more
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July 12, 2004
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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 process...
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Cast:
Morgan Spurlock
Director:
Morgan Spurlock
Genre:
Documentary
Release Date:
2004,
May 7, 2004
MPAA Rating:
R,
PG-13
Runtime:
1hr 36min
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