…is an award-winning  documentary I’d been meaning to watch since it appeared in 2004 and gave the McDonald’s ‘boat’ quite a serious rockin’! Since I’d done my own nutrition research for years and was already convinced about the horrors of a fast-food-dominant diet, I procrastinated renting it.  But I finally popped it in the dvd player this week, my two teen-age sons plopped down with me and for about 90 minutes we laughed and groaned aloud in dismay while writer/director/leading actor Morgan Spurlock proceeded to commit himself to 30 days of eating 3 meals a day at McDonalds, interspersing his colorful adventure with interesting facts, live chats with his physicians and cameos from leading experts in nutrition. The catalyst for his brilliant 30-day fast-food reality binge was a lawsuit brought against McDonalds for contributing to two young girls’ obesity.  In spite of the few choice words and brief mature dialogue with/about/from Spurlock’s girlfriend (we fast-forwarded) this was worth the watch and the edited version should be required watching for the WWW! (PG-13)

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