An entertaining and thought-provoking documentary from Morgan Spurlock, who put his health at risk by eating McDonald’s food three meals a day for a month.
But as usual with documentaries, and movies in general, some of the most interesting stuff comes in the margins. The central stunt has an understandably dire effect on Spurlock’s health – he gained 25 pounds and put serious stress on his liver and heart. What’s more compelling are sequences like the one showing an alternative high school in Appleton that contracted with a natural foods company to provide healthy, unprocessed foods for the at-risk students there – and the wonderful effects that has on both the students’ behavior and learning.
This movie isn’t up to the Michael Moore standard of entertaining documentaries (a lot of people would consider that a good thing). But it has some important things to say about how corporate greed and American laziness and pleasure-seeking feed on each other. And it does it in good spirits.
Recommended.