Pretty Good

From my favorite movies..

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Great documentary and I agree with many points but this is a true infiltration film of the now current liberal media. I don't think they ever interviewed one conservative/republican. The government and big business do have a major part in the epidemic but NOWHERE do they ever address the lack of impulse control that human nature is now nurturing. While very informative of what many of us already know( for the majority of this doc), they end this with 5 minutes of the obvious...MAKE YOUR OWWN FOOD at HOME! Yet the majority of this film is the blame game or the lack of 'Morality' of the advertiser while totally denying the allowance of social 'free will' to which the leftists' are so usually in favor of. It's a great and enlightening film about how big business and political hypocrisy really play a big part in a majority of human priorities and decision making. I thank the gods for giving me parents who taught me rational thought.

PlotThe villain of this picture is sugar and the story follows how three families come to term with it. Along the way there where several interviews that covered the subject quite well. There was some background on the history of the food/sugar industry itself that delved into the student lunch program and into the adverting that is directed to children. The narrative is that kids are targeted from infants to adults.Character DevelopmentThis film tried to throw you a curve-ball by first blaming obesity on overeating and lack of exercise.ActingNo Acting. This is a documentary.OverviewIt was impressive how the producers were able to get an interview with Bill Clinton. Throughout the course of the film parts of his interview were sandwiched into the storyline. A strong case was made against the sugar industry and the companies that use sugar in their products. It was really eye opening to take in the whole discussion. The makers did an effective job illustrating the amounts of sugar that are in each product they showcased and they made it seem that sugar was in most products. Ultimately they painted a grim picture with not one of the families featured having a happy ending, juxtaposing the cigarette industry with the food industry.

As a doco this isn't half bad, it's informative with interesting graphics to keep the viewer interested. However I felt so frustrated and angry watching this! No.1 I know the premise of this Documentary is to showcase the addictive nature of sugar and it's control over our lives and yes it does that, but why are the subject matter so naive and stupid? I don't understand how people can choose to ignore their own responsibility to this 'epidemic' and blame the food companies solely? This is what I got out of this documentary. Seems the parents and their lack of education and responsibility to their kids is not important!Maybe we are different is Australia, but I thought it's the parents' responsibility to provide food for their kids, not turn to the school cafeteria and then fast food companies to provide this for them.. these people are over weight yet sitting around the table scuffing down bowls of sugary cereals!? We sit around and wait for governments and then these big food companies make decisions for us so we can follow them blindly.. or so this documentary will make you believe. It is outrageous what is happening with food production around the world but if a product comes in a box with massive promotional casing 'sugarcoating' the shite that is inside and then we blame them for making poor choices for us, then I'm sorry we are to blame. Real food isn't processed nor does it need to be marketed. It doesn't expire in 2018 when it's 2014.. If you are in a country where tomato paste on a pizza is classified as a vegetable, and you accept this as fact then maybe Darwin had it right: 'survival of the fittest'. We need to accept accountability on our choices and not have bias opinions shape them for us. This documentary in short needed to also point out the horrible educational flaw in the US system and not just the lack of labeling and pointing to food companies.. it's the role of the government to control and educate not to be influenced by greed. I feel sorry and hopeless for the US if this is where their focus lies.

Finally watched the documentary "Fed Up", and I must say that it's thought provoking and earth revealing of just how serious and dangerous the food and obesity problem has became for our nation. Narrated by Katie Couric this film proves that for years the food industry and federal government has been leading us in the wrong direction and our diets are killing us. This film shows a 30 year span of misdirection and bad choices of the government and food industry that scams our children thru advertising and school choice as they become fatter and fatter. Also you see interviews by top doctor's and political people and health experts who give their take on why eating has became such a health crisis. Plus the film follows fat kids and overweight families who continue to struggle with weight despite eating right and exercising. Yet the answer to the problem all lies in the sugar! Food companies have cut out fat yet they added sugar that's the toxic substance that we all love yet it kills us all. As experts say despite cutting calories when sugar is still present it doesn't matter you don't lose weight! And the film states the truth of how federal government is tied into the food industry and will lobby bad food into the local schools of kids and thru TV the advertising sells to kids a sugar taste it's a money making machine that's addictive to the brain. Overall this film is an important watch it's one battle that's gonna be tough to fight, so get "Fed Up" and be ready to fight.