History Film / SupersizeMe

** Although they also show Don Gorske, who eats one (or more) Big Macs daily, and is rail-thin. He doesn't touch the french fries or soda though, so he's still ''way'' behind Morgan's intake levels.

* DocumentaryOfLies: [[Film/FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of outright fraud in his results; indeed, Morgan has refused to make his food logs public, possibly because even basic math indicates that he could not have followed his own rules and consumed 5,000 calories per day as he claimed. More scientific and less informal studies have found it impossible to replicate his results. It doesn't help that eating 5,000 calories per day of absolutely any sort of food, with limited exercise, is bad for you ''because eating excessive amounts of food while avoiding exercise is what causes all weight gain.'' If [=McDonald's=] food is bad because eating 5,000 calorie's worth of it every day harms your body, then ''all food ever'' is bad.

* AWeightyAesop: This is the point of the film, where Morgan Sperlock goes on a McDonalds diet for a month. It doesn't turn out well for him.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A number of critics compared the vomiting scene to the way heroin addicts often throw up when first using their drug of choice, as well as the allegedly addictive nature of fast food..

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: A number of critics compared the vomiting scene to the way heroin addicts often throw up when first using their drug of choice.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: Watching this film can give you a serious craving for your favorite [=McDonald's=] menu item, though other parts of the film, such as Spurlock vomiting a Super-Sized meal out of his car door, might spoil your appetite.

* DocumentaryOfLies: [[Film/FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of outright fraud in his results; indeed, Morgan has refused to make his food logs public, possibly because even basic math indicates that he could not have followed his own rules and consumed 5,000 calories per day as he claimed. More scientific and less informal studies have found it impossible to replicate his results.
** It doesn't help that eating 5,000 calories per day of absolutely any sort of food, with limited exercise, is bad for you ''because eating excessive amounts of food while avoiding exercise is what causes all weight gain.''

** [[Film/FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of taking artistic license with a lot more than just that. More scientific and less informal studies have found it impossible to replicate his results as well.

* CaptainObviousAesop: Fast food is bad for your health. The film admits that everyone already knows that, but attempts to show that it's worse than you might think. The doctor at the beginning says that he expects Spurlock to gain some weight, but after a few weeks is begging him to stop the experiment for his own safety. The experiment as a whole just glues together a larger message about making smart food choices.

# For 30 days, he can't eat or drink anything that isn't on a [=McDonald's=] menu.

* DoesThingRemindYouOfAnything: A number of critics compared the vomiting scene to the way heroin addicts often throw up when first using their drug of choice.

* IndestructibleInedible: One of the DVD extras had him put [=McDonald's=] food products in jars and see how long it took them to go bad. The fish sandwich was the first to go, lasting only a couple of days, the various burgers lasted about two weeks before becoming moldy. The french fries on the other hand were completely unchanged (at least visibly) after ''ten weeks'', at which point they were accidentally thrown out by an intern.

* AWeightyAesop: This is the point of the film, where Morgan Sperlock goes on a McDonalds diet for a month. It doesn't turn out well for him.

** Although they also show Don Gorske, who eats one (or more) Big Macs daily, and is rail-thin. He doens't touch the french fries or soda though, so he's still ''way'' behind Morgan's intake levels.

* SoundtrackDissonance: The "Blue Danube Waltz". [[spoiler: During scenes of gastric bypass surgery.]]

* AWeightyAesop: This is basically the point of the film, where Morgan Sperlock goes on a McDonalds diet for a month. Needless to say, it doesn't turn out well for him.

* SuspiciousltSpecificDenial: Meta-Example. sometime after the movie debuted nation wide, Mcdonalds got rid of their Super size option on the menu, stating that it was not this movie that influenced the decision......

** [[Film/FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of taking artistic license with a lot more than just that.

** Although they also show Don Gorske, who eats one (or more) big macs daily, and is rail-thin. He doens't touch the french fries or soda though, so he's still ''way'' behind Morgan's intake levels.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Morgan admits that he practically never ate out before making the documentary, and that he almost never eats meat in his evening meals (his girlfriend is a vegan chef). It's inevitable that somebody who goes from this kind of diet to eating nothing but [=McDonalds=] will have a more extreme reaction than an average person who eats fast food in moderate amounts. If eating a Super Size Combo made ''everyone'' vomit, do you think they would keep offering it?

** [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of taking artistic license with a lot more than just that.

** [[FatHead Another documentary film maker]] has accused him of taking artistic license with a lot more than just that.