CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

erenolgac It has deep messages that not everyone can easily understand it. Camera angles are not good and this film is a bit recorded "amateurly". But if you wanna get rid of your fats (sugars actually). I highly recommend this film.I was deeply shocked when the boy in the dentist said that he is going to drink mountain dew with his dent less mouth!

Reno Rangan The last time I saw such documentary film was 'Food, Inc.'. In the mean time I have seen documentaries about different topics, but not food. It was a long gap indeed, because then I was in my early twenties and now watching this film made me realise how to look at the food I eat everyday. So believe me, if you are in your late twenties and above, this will inspire you. But for others, like the youngsters and kids, it will be an educational film.This Australian film looks funny from the outside, but the information it gives can't simply be discarded. I liked the actor, who was the writer, director, producer of the film and the dedication was highly appreciable. Because it was not just go out and make a film, but he himself placed into the centre of the film plot. Initially I thought it was a crazy idea, but at the end I'm stunned. For everything, from what he did and what this film revealed.When it comes to the food, there are many things to be concerned. But this film was focused on sugar, about the foods we eat, which has a strong sugar presence and how it is affecting our health. Damon Gameau decided to experiment himself by consuming per day, forty teaspoons of sugar and from sugary products that easily available in the market. And monitoring carefully the changes in his body along the way his wife's pregnancy."Sugar's not evil, but life's so much better when you get rid of it."The film is not all about the experiment he's doing, it also gives some details about the people who are suffering big from modern foods. Especially I'm happy for openly giving opinions about the soft drinks from Coke and Pepsi brands. Damon also travelled to the US and he continued what he was doing, alongside collecting some new input from the experts, as well as meeting the victims. The rapid change in his physique and health gives a report on what direction the experiment is heading. From damaging the skin to the putting his internal body organs into various risks of diseases such as liver failure, heart attack and many more.There's a brief appearance of Hugh Jackman, but don't expect more than that. It had no big impact, because the film's topic was much bigger than his part in the film. The film gave me some idea about how to deal with the food I consume. If you are concerned about your weight, particularly fat tummy, you will know what to do after watching this. I mean this does not guide you through, but opens your eyes. It points out where you are committing your mistake. It does not tell to completely cut off the sugary, but know your limit and behave.One of the best documentary films. Do whatever you want after watching this, but before that don't think to skip it. You can call it an inspirational, educational or a message deliverer, but this film has committed to highlight what went wrong with the modern day diet. And how the food industry is responding to all the accusations. But you should know what's better for you, so think twice before touching any sugar products. Especially be aware of fructose (who is the villain of this story), which might not equate to nicotine, but the consequences are.9/10

Red-Barracuda In this documentary, film-maker Damon Gameau becomes his own guinea pig and spends 60 days eating healthy foods with added sugar. Before this process, he had eradicated sugar from his diet so the contrast is even more pronounced. Over the course of the 60 days he puts on considerable weight, experiences mood swings and notices a drop in overall motivation.What I found so alarming about this film was that it didn't play things easy and simply expose the dangers of excessive sugar intake. Gameau doesn't consume any junk food whatsoever, such as fizzy juice, sweets or ice cream, he instead purely sticks to food marketed as healthy. It's this more than anything that sets off alarm bells because this route seems to most people a route to weight loss and improved physical well-being, yet as the film demonstrates it actually leads to obesity and mental damage. Time and again we are shown the volumes of sugar that is hidden in so-called 'healthy' foods and it makes you pause for thought. What comes out loud and clear is that sugar is clearly a socially acceptable form of addiction and the sugar industry have been instrumental in minimising public information on the dangers their product presents. It's very interesting to note that over the course of his 60 day experiment Gameau eats no more calories than he did previously, yet he puts on almost a stone in weight. One of the key lessons, therefore, is that there are calories and there are calories, i.e. sugar calories affect the body decidedly differently to the way protein and carb ones do.The approach taken by the film is very much of the fun and informative variety. Sometimes the humour doesn't work so well but in the main this approach is good in that it is very accessible. After all, this is a film that you would want children to watch and learn from. There are a couple of star cameos with Hugh Jackman giving us a brief history lesson about man's relationship with sugar and Stephen Fry pops up to explain some of the science behind it. On the whole, I found this to be an excellent wake-up call about a subject I had hitherto given minimal thought to. There is a lot of very valuable information in this film that could be genuinely life changing if applied to your day to day life, and I reckon that is as good a recommendation as anyone could need.

vaughanstarr If you enjoy seeing black people portrayed in the most paternalistic, belittling way possible, while all the while some white presenter adopts a cares so much more than you shtick as so sad piano music plays in the back ground, then this is the film for you! If though, you wretch at the idea of this, then this divergence the film takes midway as the presenter visits an Aboriginal community will sour you on the whole production.To present Aboriginal people as so pathetic as to be incapable of understanding that a high sugar diet presents disastrous health effects without Big Gov funded intervention is nothing but the contemptible racism of lower expectations. The fact of the matter is that all people know what is good food and what is bad. They just choose the bad a lot of the time. And that's people for you.The movie Fat Head, another doc on high carb consumption and its effects on health combats the racism of That Sugar Film, and is to be commended here.On the info? Some of it is good. But not all. It becomes very melodramatic and ventures into Super Size Me territory with is fantastic weight gain by the presenter, so much so that one is left to question the honesty of food/macro intake. To use again the film Fat Head for comparison, in which Tom Naughton eats nothing but fast food for a number of weeks while keeping his carb intake to 100g (25 tsp sugar) a day and as a result loses weight and improves health markers. The presenter here, eating just 15 teaspoons (60g) more of sugar a day, piles on the weight? Talk about things that make you go Hmmmm! Too mate, the apple you hold up as a perfect representation of Mother Nature, is actually a perfect representation of man designed produce. No wild apple looks like that. What you hold is something that has been carefully bred and crafted for years and years. So that now we have something that tastes sweet and is good for us. Though the presenter's predilection for idealizing nature at the expense of a more honest appraisal of reality is to be noted as such crops again and again throughout.Would all of us do better eating less sugar? Undoubtedly. Does this film with its racism, hysteria and dubious integrity on the part of the presenter and his weight gain help in this more than it hinders? Yes, but not by much. Those interested in the topic are encouraged to give Fat Head a view. You will laugh and leave far better informed. Too, not once will you see a black person portrayed as of inferior intellectual capacity to a white person, so an added bonus there!Update: taking the recommendation of another reviewer in this thread I took a look at the BBC Horizon Doc Sugar V Fat (watch 4 free on dailymotion). After viewing I take back my allegation of less than forthright behavior on the part of the presenter when it comes to cals and weight gain. Why? Simply in the horizon doc, 1 of the twins after going on a high fat very low carb diet for a month experiences horrendous blood glucose functioning when tested on this at the end of the diet. Thus, if the presenter came from a similar position but one of years, not a month, it is perfectly conceivable that even on a mild carb intake they would be hopeless and experience weight gain plus a whole host of other adverse side effects. Is this an indictment of high carb diets though? Or is it a slam on high fat low carb diets and how they ruin your ability to process carbs properly? The latter in my book. All other critiques stand. To the reviewer who recommended Sugar V Fat, thank you very much.