1. Stephanie Soechtig's potentially life-changing documentary Fed Up has the look and feel of an extended 60 Minutes investigative news segment. Except that it's much, much more.
2. Before "Fed Up," no movie had ever sent me hurrying to my refrigerator to read food labels - but there's always a first time.
3. Fed Up is a workmanlike documentary, as undistinguished in style as a PowerPoint slide show. It nonetheless finds traction in its depiction of the food industry's Montgomery Burns-like practices.
4. A surprisingly in-depth and confrontational examination into the obesity epidemic among Americans, especially children, over the last 30 years.
5. "The government is subsidizing the obesity epidemic," says food writer Michael Pollan. "Fed Up" will make you want to do something about it.
6. It pulls no punches in its informed outrage against the food industry, zeroing in on the rampant use of sugar and its many multisyllabic variations.
7. This new documentary aims for something very difficult: It takes a tired subject -- the obesity epidemic -- and completely reframes the conversation.
8. Some lessons are overfamiliar (almonds good, corn syrup bad), but the section on corporate influence over school lunches is enough to make you spit out that 20-ounce soda from the concession stand.
9. Without being preachy about it, Fed Up flat-out tells us that it is indeed past time to be fed up -- to insist that action be taken, and take it ourselves. This film is a bracing wake-up call.
10. The film gets its point across ably enough using journalism that it doesn't really need four fat teenagers to record video diaries about their unhappiness with their weight and their inability to do anything about it.
What is the consensus?
Compelling and troubling in equal measure, Fed Up is an advocacy documentary that earns its outrage.