- Studio: Roadside Attractions
- Release Date: May 7, 2004
- Starring: Daryl Isaacs, Morgan Spurlock
- Summary: Why are Americans so fat? Find out in Super Size Me, a tongue in-cheek - and burger in hand -- look at the legal, financial and physical costs of America's hunger for fast food. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
- Director: Morgan Spurlock
- Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 32 out of 37
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Mixed: 4 out of 37
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Negative: 1 out of 37
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100A deliciously amusing socio-culinary prank.
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80Its a hugely enjoyable descent into epic gluttony.
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60Beyond any contention is Morgan Spurlock's gift for metabolizing common knowledge into uncommonly entertaining cinema.
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30Insofar as one can distinguish the investigative research from the career move, this Sundance prizewinner is effective muckraking, but it lacks much of a political program apart from the message that we're poisoning ourselves.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 41 out of 57
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Mixed: 5 out of 57
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Negative: 11 out of 57
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TanikaG.10
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8It may have its fair share of holes, but Spurlock's commentary is irresistibly entertaining and enlightening.
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