Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! (2017)
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 93 minuten
Alternative title: Super Size Me 2: Heilige Kip!
Country:
United States
Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
Stars: Morgan Spurlock, Jonathan Buttram and Jeff Vespa
IMDb score:
7,1 (6.075)
Releasedate: 6 September 2019
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! plot
13 years after the documentary 'Super Size Me', the fast food industry has undergone a makeover. Today, restaurant chains lure people with healthy, organic and natural food. Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock explores this new reality through an approach even more intense than his first film: he starts his own chicken franchise. We follow him all the way from raising poultry, making recipes, designing the brand and looking for a suitable location.
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JDSsmetje
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Slightly more conventional than the first part, but Spurlock still maintains an entertaining pace. He explains quite convincingly how marketing pursues a so-called health hola effect in fast food chains, but forgets to document his claim that thirteen years later fast food is still just as unhealthy.
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mrklm
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With his Oscar-nominated documentary Super Size Me, Spurlock dealt a major blow to McDonald's. For that film he used himself as a test subject to discover the physical and mental consequences of an eating pattern consisting exclusively of a McDonald's menu. Twelve years later, the fast food industry seems to have turned around and their food is in any case becoming a lot healthier/less unhealthy in the eyes of the public. In this sequel, Spurlock explores the value of terms like "homemade," "locally sourced," and "free range" by starting his own fast food restaurant. With the help of food specialists, marketing agencies and experienced chicken farmers, he tries to control the entire production process so that he can eventually offer his own chicken meat in his restaurant “Holy Chicken”, where he promises to provide full transparency about how the food is made come. An excellent sequel in which Spurlock's charisma and liberating sense of humor counterbalance the tragic stories of exploited chicken farmers and the, to say the least, questionable practices in which chicks are prepared for human consumption in a short time.
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otherfool
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You could call it a little lazy that Spurlock, who I always like to see, harks back to his greatest success; Super Size Me. He concludes that the world of fast food has not really become healthier after a decade, and I can already tell: it won't do that for the next 10 years either, so if Spurlock feels like it again by then, it's time to wait on round 3 of his quest.
In this installment, he sets up his own chicken snack bar to educate the ignorant public about how these lovable and delicious critters are fattened. That words like free-range and antibiotic-free mean nothing at all, was a small eye-opener (although I didn't have a too glorious picture). A large part of the film is about the struggle of small farmers against Big Chicken, which was less exciting. I'm always more of the cheerful Spurlock, when it becomes cry-or-I-shoot I drop out.
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