Super Size Me (2004)

Supersize Me Review – Darren Graham Supersize me is a 2002 film about the unhealthy foods in our society, we see a brave man by the name of ‘Morgan’ take a leap of faith in to try and test whether or not really these typical foods that we consume in day to use can really live up to its depiction of ‘toxic’ that 90% of food critics state. Morgan undergoes usual medical examinations to prevent any sort of dangers that he may encounter along the journey that he is about to undergo. A whole month of McDonalds is trying to finally prove the facts that big corporate companies are trying to deny, some of Americas most obese cities say that they usually eat McDonalds a couple of times a week, but yet is stated as ‘a part of a healthy diet’. Throughout the film we are taken through this journey and systematically being fed facts about the main point of the movie, but yet upholding the more entertainment, humorous side of it. However we do encounter some repetitive qualities of the film around the same point, over and over again. Another criticism is that of the ‘typical American’ does not consume this much junk food in their daily diet, and do some form of exercise so I found it a slight bit biased on my behalf as if you have too much of any form of food it is bound to have a bad effect and for this reason I cannot say the film was flawless, but was riddled with some bad judgements and lacking common sense yet they do touch on this at the end of the film. He is accompanied by his girlfriend who is deeply disturbed by his choice of diet and shows her deep disgust throughout the movie, we can see that there typical family diet goes against the 'Typical American Diet' that they are quick to sum up about every American, but we can see that their day to day diet is actually very healthy and nutritious, this shows us that not every American is a typical junk food junkie and they do this in order to rule out stereotyping throughout the film as they cannot possibly label Americans as 'fat' or 'unhealthy'. Overall it is very entertaining yet factual and I would give it a 3/5 stars. As it hits on every subject and considers other factors making it less biased than it usually would be, and this is what I found good about the movie.