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It was distinctly okay.
One-sided, over-dramatic and not particularly scientific in
any method, the film chronicles writer(?)/star/director
Morgan Spurlock's fat adventures eating McDonalds for 30
days straight. Surprisingly... he puts on weight and
is vastly unhealthy. We call this kind of film,
preaching to the choir. All of us that already were
aware that McDonalds makes you fat nodded in the theater
while those who didn't know that... were eating at McDonalds
or suing. At first it seems like he is going
to take the time to blame McDonalds and take the corporate
responsibility route, which he does, but not ridiculously.
In other words, Spurlock isn't the reactionary hot head
moron that Michael Moore is. What he does do however,
is thicken up his point with many, many extra helpings of
really out of place melodrama, my favorite being the phone
conversation with his vegan girlfriend where she fears for
his life and he agrees. BUT HE MUST GO THROUGH WITH
THE LAST EIGHT DAYS. Oh lord. Overblown
though it is, the movie does do something very important and
that's point a major accusatory finger at American fatness,
a truly disgusting epidemic in this country. Overall
he rightly places the blame on us for eating the crap and
making it socially acceptable to be fat... to the point
where we are afraid to say the word fat and offend people.
The film is slow at many parts, funny at others, gross at
others and for the most part interesting. I will never
watch it again like I would When We Were Kings StartUp.com,
but I am glad I saw it Mostly because of a beautiful
montage of Ronald McDonald working with children to the tune
"Pusherman" by Curtis Mayfield. |
