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  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary In the 15 years since Super Size Me, the fast-food industry has undergone a makeover. Today, chain restaurants tout food that’s “healthy,” “organic,” and “natural.” Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores this new reality with an approach even more immersive and subversive than that used for his first film: he sets out to open his own chicken...

Directed By: Morgan Spurlock

Written By: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock

  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2019
  • PG-13
  • Samuel Goldwyn Films
  • 1 h 33 m

Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
61
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 10 User Ratings
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Summary In the 15 years since Super Size Me, the fast-food industry has undergone a makeover. Today, chain restaurants tout food that’s “healthy,” “organic,” and “natural.” Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores this new reality with an approach even more immersive and subversive than that used for his first film: he sets out to open his own chicken...

Directed By: Morgan Spurlock

Written By: Jeremy Chilnick, Morgan Spurlock

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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54% Positive
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46% Mixed
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85
Sep 7, 2019
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken is not only informative in the same way Super Size Me was, but his story about opening a fast-food restaurant and the journey he took to get there is entertaining and telling.
By Alan Ng FULL REVIEW
75
Sep 12, 2019
It’s nothing we haven’t heard before, but it’s still heartbreaking to see small farmers telling their individual stories about the financial and emotional stress they’ve experienced.
By Richard Roeper FULL REVIEW

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75
Aug 28, 2019
Vegans and animal lovers might have a tough time stomaching parts of the film.
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63
Sep 6, 2019
There’s a nagging aura of “meh” encircling the proceedings.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
60
Sep 5, 2019
The movie is at its most engaging when examining the near-monopolies controlling chicken farmers in the United States.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 3, 2019
Spurlock’s documentary turns out to be the exact thing it is meant to expose: an unfulfilling product passed off as something that’s good for you.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 28, 2019
This time, his journey doesn’t send him to the ends of experience. Instead, he goes on a smug odyssey of know-it-all-ism that yields a scant few factoids we didn’t already learn from his first film.
By Charles Bramesco FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Public Domain, Snoot Entertainment, Warrior Poets
Release Date Sep 6, 2019
Duration 1 h 33 m
Rating PG-13
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Awards

Toronto International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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