To be honest, I heard about this film a while back and dismissed it because one the title is ridiculous and two as a kid I felt unstoppable. However, watching the first five minutes in my English class it inspired me to watch it. In the beginning, I felt like he was a arrogant guy trying to defend McDonalds, but as the film progressed he was defending both sides until the end where he looked so uncomfortable he could not tell which side he supported. The best parts of the film I thought were the interviews with strangers and school employees, the three doctors' analysis, and the constant reminder that our children and our selves can seriously be affected or are already affected by this. The parts that I did not like was the reality show theme to it. I felt it was over dramatically placed. Having more people do the diet, I feel that would resonate more. I personally felt there was an overall tone of mockery or something to that extent that really pulled away from the pathos of the story as well as the logos. However, there were to many facts that could not be missed due to the fact of the sheer credibility of some of them. In terms of ethos, I felt biased due to the first impression that I did not trust him, but by the end I at least listened to his other sources. The onslaught of video work, text, and audio work don on this documentary was outstanding. Even though I felt it was a bad film and would not watch it again really shows that the facts in it really make you think about what you eat. It is a good enough film to watch once. More than that maybe not.

Morgan Spurlock does a great job with directing and acting in this unofficial experiment. I thought that Mr. Spurlock did a great job including some of his daily tasks into the movie to not just show updates of him going to eat McDonalds 3 times a day. I found that there were also a lot of interesting facts about fast food and health in general which added more valuable sustenance to the film and gave some valuable background to the experiment. Even though Spurlock's film was not an official experiment, I thought it would have been more valuable to incorporate more people into the experiment to broaden the effects that fast food has on people who are not middle aged males. I thought that the film was very informative and overall interesting to watch, it managed to keep my attention throughout the movie which is no easy task. Overall the spectrum of the experiment in the movie was not the broadest, however, Spurlock manages to incorporate valuable information and background to enhance the film and make it very interesting to watch.

I've watched SuperSize Me in the past for different classes, but I have never paid as much attention as I did during this viewing. Morgan Spurlock, the director and star, set out to eat three meals a day at McDonalds for thirty days. He consulted three different doctors before this experiment, and during the month long period. Spurlock had a very healthy body type prior to this endeavour, but gained twenty five pounds by the end, and loss muscle mass. He decided to start this experiment to prove that the fast food industry is incredibly harmful, and proved his thesis right. Obesity is an epidemic that is plaguing our nation. In the intro to this documentary, different maps appeared on the screen, showing the rate of obese Americans growing with each year. His hypothesis for this is that Americans eat out more now than ever before, and that it isn't health efficient to eat every meal at a food place. Spurlock put his body on the line to prove this point. His cholesterol shot up, his body fat went up, and his mood went way down. He said he would crave the food constantly, and that he never felt truly full from eating it and would just want to go back for another burger. He compared eating the food to when he smoked cigarettes and used the same "three day hump" metaphor. At the end of the film, all the doctors agreed that fast food should be strictly limited from a diet, and that exercise and healthy eating should be prioritised. Overall, this documentary was highly enjoyable. Spurlock brought humour into this dire situation, and balanced it out with important statistics. I would recommend this film to anyone curious about health, the obesity epidemic, or just looking for a documentary to enjoy.

Supersize Me is essentially a movie about a man who eats way too much every day for a month and gets fat. I would like to point out that eating 3k+ calories of ANYTHING every meal will make you fat. Morgan Spurlock offers no control group and his arbitrary method of accepting the offer to "Supersize" whenever asked has no clear purpose other than to prove McDonalds doesn't really ask that often. I would suggest to anyone who has watched this to also watch "Fathead." It offers insight into Spurlock's methodology for the film as well as poking some major flaws in his so called logic. To summarize, this movie does a great job of creating hate towards one of many players in the fast food industry, but it fails to properly educate and provide any useful facts.