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Super-size Me features one man's mission (the personable Morgan Spurlock) to apparently kill himself by eating burgers, and he gets suprisingly far along the path in the space of the 30 days documented in this film. Even the Doctors who examine him every step of the way are shocked at the state his body is in. From someone with above average fitness and health to someone with a noticeable paunch, no sex drive and a liver that's turned to pate in 30 days is impressive. When the heart palpitations start in the middle of the night he almost chucks it all in but just for us sticks it out to the end.

This film made me think twice about what I put into my body and I don't even eat at MacDonalds. It would seem like a silly gimick to eat all your meals at McD's for a full month but as it's pointed out in the film, a lot of people aren't too far away from doing this. Apart from the changes in Spurlock's body there are a lot of fairly shocking statistics that help support the fact they, hey, maybe you should eat at home once in a while.

It's tragic when a spokesperson for the Subway sandwich chain turns up at a high school to talk about how he was able to lose so much weight. Afterwards an upset overweight student gives an interview where she's crying because she'd love to lose weight but she can't afford to eat at Subway twice a day like the speaker suggested he had done to lose weight. Not only are you shocked at the tactics that fast food outlets will go to to promote their chains but you also end up screaming mad at the laziness of some people. Not necessarily for the fact that they don't exercise but simply for the fact that it wouldn't occur to them to make some food at home and take it to school/work with them. It doesn't take much effort or money and it would be a whole lot healthier than eating out.

Spurlock's girlfriend is a vegan chef and even with her planning a special diet for him it took him 14 months to get back to the shape he was before the month of burgers and thankfully his internal organs returned to normal after two. Entertaining and educational.

Mean Girls I had read a bit about, it's 87% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes but at the same time I didn't expect that much from a teen comedy starring Lindsay Lohan. Basically it's similar in plot to the Winona Ryder film Heathers but sanitised for a younger audience, nobody dies for a start, but there are also many times when you feel the filmmakers reigning in the swearing for example. Thankfully it's still a smart and funny 100 minutes. It's let down slightly by an icky ending and what happens to the characters at the end is pretty disappointing but on the whole what could have been a horrible film is made good by an excellent script with many a funny and barbed aside.

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