Super Size Me (2004)

Synopsis: This is a documentary about the effects of fast food on people's health.
Appraisal: In all honesty, this film is twice as long as it should be, with a lot of redundancy that could easily be compressed or eliminated altogether (oh and it is losing a lot of rating points on account of the pointless and disgusting display of a stomach reducing surgery; have pity!). To keep in tune with the film's theme, fatness is as unhealthy on a movie as it is on a person, and this film is obese. I know much of the praise it has received is based on its alleged social change-inducing power. Give me a break! If the U.S.A. (or, for that matter, a lot of other countries including my own) is in such a bad moral and political shape as to depend on a movie produced by a hitherto unknown person in order to change things that are reaching catastrophic proportions, there is something deeply wrong with the U.S.A. (and, for that matter, a lot of other countries including my own) that goes way beyond the physical health of their people. Is this the only way? Will people have to die before action is taken? Note that, as reported by the film, the only actions taken in order to reduce this problem came from individual institutions; as far as the government is concerned, the only action that the film reports is a law that forbids certain kinds of lawsuits against food companies.
Note: I saw a dubbed-in-Portuguese version.
Rating: 51