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Good cause, bad film The film has a good point: fast food is mostly fat, salt and sugar laden crap. For most of us, eating it habitually will make us fat, sick and depressed. In addition, McDonald's uses child-directed marketing to promote its mass-produced, low quality products. So why don't I give it five stars? Here are the reasons: 1.) The issue is a dead horse. Everybody knows that eating nothing but McDonald's food 3 times a day will kill you. Making a movie to prove it makes as much sense as producing a film to prove the world is round. 2.) He stacks the deck by choosing the absolute worst foods on the menu. Why not pick the bran muffins, salads, diet sodas and other healthier items on the menu? Because it doesn't fit the film maker's agenda. 3.) It's boring. Watching this guy eat burgers gets old quick. 4.) He even seems to defeat his own purpose at times. For example, he interviews a John Lennon-looking guy (I think his name was Dan Gorsky) who has eaten at least two Big Macs a day for years. But the guy is downright skinny! Also, the "healthy" person in the film, his girlfriend the vegan chef, has an ashen complexion and looks like a poster girl for anorexia research. She also gives us TMI by telling us how saturated fat is affecting his erections when they have sex. I just didn't want to know about that. To be fair, there is one extremely poignant section of the film where he goes into school cafeterias and shows kids choosing pizza, french fries, etc. over healthy meals. That is a national travesty that should be corrected immediately. Bravo for that! All in all, though, this film was mostly about a somewhat unlikeable guy packing burgers and fries in his gut and wrecking his body. I can see that for free, as can you, every day. So why purchase this DVD?