Film Reviews

Super Size Me

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• Starring: Alexandra Jamieson
• Details: US/96 mins/ (12PG).

One healthy man decides to live exclusively on McDonalds food for a month. He can only order from the menu - the Holy Grail being the super size portion - and three doctors will monitor his progress. Actually, make that monitor his deterioration.
If you've read Eric Schlosser's Fast Food Nation, there's nothing in terms of facts that will really surprise you about America and its unhealthy obsession (no pun intended) with convenience foods. Where the film soars, however, is not only with the experiment conducted by Spurlock himself, which is grotesquely compelling, but the dark comedic asides he injects. A far more affable version of Michael Moore, Spurlock is an engaging narrator and the film is a nicely paced blend of fact and case study, culminating in a rather sobering conclusion for our hero and his vital organs. The highest compliment I can pay Super Size Me? I haven't eaten a burger since.

Review by Garreth Murphy