May 10, 2004

Super Size Me

What would make a grown, intelligent New Yorker with a vegan girlfriend eat McDonalds 3 meals a day, every day, for a month?

A great movie concept, that's what.

Morgan Spurlock, the producer, director, and star of the new independent film, Super Size Me went through that exact ordeal to make a point, and boy, And by the end of the movie, with three doctors and a nutritionist who were originally optimistic about the project telling him to cut it the hell out, does he ever make one.

What seems at first to be nothing more than a documentary based on ideas like those at TheSpark.com turns out to be a poignant, funny epic that makes some very good points.

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