Super Size Me 2 (2017) - The original Super Size Me documentary featuring Morgan Spurlock eating nothing but McDonald's for a month, was very likely the first documentary I ever watched. I remember at the time it got a lot of talk and buzz and it may have been the first documentary that I was aware of that received a lot of mainstream buzz. I didn't know that Spurlock had made a sequel until my husband suggested we watch it. I also wasn't aware that this documentary had been shelved for a couple of years, so ready for release in 2017, but not actually released until 2019 after Morgan Spurlock admitted to a history of sexual misconduct.
This documentary stays in the fast food arena, with Spurlock planning on opening his own fast food restaurant. In the lead up to opening this fast food restaurant we find out about how issues surrounding chicken farmers and their treatment by the large corporations that buy from them. We get a lesson in marketing and the buzzwords in advertising that are designed to make you believe your choices are healthier than they are. This all winds up to the eventual opening of said fast food restaurant and what that looks like in terms of how it is presented to the customers. I did enjoy this, Spurlock does know how to present an appealing documentary.
We watched this on Amazon Prime Video.
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