Review – Super Size Me

Watch as a preachy East Coast yuppie pukes after spending just three days trying to live off food that poor people eat all the time. The concept is sort of cute: an experiment to see if it’s possible for a healthy adult to survive for an entire month eating nothing but McDonald’s food. It picks up a few Michael Moore elements along the way, but even that wasn’t automatically fatal. The big problem here is that the audience is treated to an hour and a half worth of sanctimony about how terrible it is that we’re all slaves to evil fast food corporations with barely a moment’s thought to the racist, sexist, regionalist, discriminatory, and ever-so-pro-corporate assumptions upon which concepts like “ideal weight” are based. The production is entertaining in spots and I suppose well-intentioned at heart, but it just seems to miss its own point. See if desperate