Brit wit Stephen Fry elucidates the difference between glucose, lactose, sucrose and fructose in rhyme. Pop songs such as Depeche Mode’s “Just Can’t Get Enough” add a bouncy component. Talking heads show up on food labels, street signs and Times Square billboards.
Gameau occasionally shrinks himself down to Ant-Man size, at one point hanging by a rope from his own nose before traveling through his body “Fantastic Voyage”-style. That may be why the initially wiry Gameau, a 30-something-ish cross between comic Russell Brand and Bret McKenzie of "Flight of the Conchords," feels the need to jazz up matters in a rather fanciful and intermittently entertaining fashion. The formerly fit Spurlock would gain 24 pounds, see his body mass index and cholesterol levels soar, suffer from mood swings and lethargy, and accumulate fat in his liver.Ī decade later, much of the shock value has dissipated from observing such a nutritionally induced sideshow. Whether or not the doc also raised awareness among the general public about how such chains contribute to the country’s obesity crisis is another question.īut “Super Size Me” also trafficked in a less edifying kind of carny cinema: Ladies and gentlemen, come watch a man try to eat himself to death.
The popular expose could have possibly been one of the factors that led Mickey D’s to eventually add a few healthier alternatives to its menu. Back in 2004, the idea that a filmmaker would risk his own well-being by voluntarily only eating garbage for an entire month was quite novel.