Good start, but then it gets ruined

good back-story, and good acting

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Sets things out as a typical cheap documentary on weight and diet.Quickly becomes a confusing watch full of notorious quack doctors, a mysteriously body-conscious presenter, and lovely 'naturopathic' propaganda to combat the veggie 'propaganda' the documentary criticises and parodies.One plus- it's a great example of misinterpretation, anecdotal BS and all kinds of bias! As soon as he begins trying to 'tackle' the world's best medical consensus like calorie deficit=weight loss, saturated fat/cholesterol= high bad cholesterol/atherosclerosis and insulin intake (via insulin genic foods like animals)= impaired weight loss. Then he does experiments with raw numbers that clearly prove medical consensus and disprove the presenter's BS (if you ignore the clueless opinions he wraps the numbers in).

A fantastic documentary with some real eye opening material, but the bad comedy, ug. Tom, leave the comedy to the pros. It would have been a much more enjoyable viewing/learning experience had it just been straight forward the entire way through. A must watch for excellent information on nutrition and how easily government and other fields can go astray. This film came out in 2009 and the information in it did not hit the mainstream until around 2014 or so. In my observations there is no other field in the world as fraught with misinformation as nutrition. Most people just seem to make things up and/or adopt ideas that suit their image. Very little is understood about nutrition, but this movie takes a very scientific and un-opinionated approach. I appreciated that, a rare trait in a documentary now days.

In this particular case; the deceitful agenda of the powerful lobbying especial interest groups behind the shadowy "fattification" of the US of A. A smoke and mirrors "epidemic" which they themselves manufacture ("The Man", obv); knowingly and willingly. The medium is in a form of rebuttal to the lame Super Size Me one; even with the same tone. Except infinitely better and more funny. It also serves as a teaching aid in explaining why regular diets don't work, and the intuitive truth about how our metabolism has evolved to eat meat; not vegetables. Despite what you have been misled to believe all your life. I can't believe this isn't rated higher; but it doesn't surprise me as much anylonger. The problem for many then is, that oftentimes it comes too hard and lengthy on it subject matter. But it's OK, since after all; it was made by a self proclaimed on-the-side comic (nothing wrong with that either) And I thought it succeeded wonderfully in making fun of the referenced people and institutions; again, it was really good and funny. If any; I found out that it didn't pwnd them hard enough. I also didn't mind the low budget; for it was nicely shot, edited, and very well put together; also it gave it real character. The animations were well done, funny and informative as well. Hence, the problem with sheeple is that when you tell them explicitly; then it's always your fault. They resist you and go all STFUN&WTF on you. People just don't like to be accountable for their actions; let alone hint at being merely responsible. Not to mention that people get offended for the most irrelevant and silliest things; because he badmouthed Mcnutguy(Spurlock), some minorities, the govermint; etc. Give me a break! Nothing nowhere near when an anti establishment person utters a word. Eg, a 9/11 conspiracy; which I'd at least understand their closed minded, backlashing, emotional response. There's no need to say conspiracy anyhow; because everybody should know by now that the evil corporate-govermint is responsible. This has been proved time and time again. Yet sheeple just don't want to accept that simple fact. Nevertheless; I urge you to think and found out for yourself, if that's not the case. Ie, ask yourself; what parts were not true about those statements? None obv; at least to me. Vegnuts arguments are exactly like animal rights ones; they are all emotions over reasons. Because otherwise they'd have no arg "point"; ie anything to stupidly complain about. Vegetarism is malnourishing, sickening and anti-natural; deal with it. So if you eat like a pig; better stated, what a pig does; then you'll obv become a pig. No surprises; a bad rating or review, or self righteous indignation; at least from my behalf. Just kudos for telling it like it is, on a job superbly done!

There are a lot of things I could have liked about this movie, such as the silly humor of it. I was even excited that someone was motivated enough to propose a response to Supersize Me, unfortunately, this film doesn't do it. The key difference between Fathead and Supersize Me, was a background in social sciences. If the idea was to show that there was a compelling deficiency in Spurlock's theory, an equally compelling argument is not, "I have a brain," that's a logical fallacy called reductio ad absurdam - reduction to the absurd. This is no documentary, it's a comedy - if it was science, the film maker would have been motivated to repeat the experiment to document any changes in his findings from the original study. Instead, the film maker changed all of the original variables to give him a very predictable outcome and he is left with about %90 of empirical and biased data forming the overall structure of this comedy; what's funny about it is how it pretends to be scientific yet has absolutely no scientific merit whatsoever.