Morgan Spurlock's slickly entertaining documentary delivers the ultimate blinding glimpse of the obvious: Fast food is bad for you and fast-food companies spend millions so you'll eat it anyway. His stroke of genius was to build it around a stunt with road-accident appeal, personally undertaking a 30-day, all-McDonald's diet and recording the results. A genial New Yorker from West Virginia, the third-fattest state in the union, the 6-foot 2-inch Spurlock started out weighing a healthy 185 pounds, with 11 percent body fat and exemplary blood pressure, cholesterol levels and liver function. Three doctors and a nutritionist monitored his progress as he replaced a vegeta...
Released:
2004
Rated:
PG
Length:
96 mins