Mostly 'Fed Up' with latest movies - Barnstable Patriot

Just in time for the holidays comes a documentary that shows you how everything you eat is making you fat and how the food industry is behind it.

'Fed Up' is an entertaining and informative documentary that tempers its anger at the cause of the obesity epidemic in the nation with humor. The film says that the growing obesity epidemic isn't because of the increasingly sedentary lifestyle that kids are living these days, but rather because of the amount of sugar that the food industry packs into their diets. It isn't about counting calories anymore; instead it is about watching your daily sugar intake.

Who's to blame for this? Everyone from the food industry to politicians who take no steps to regulate the food industry. After all, they consider pizza a vegetable. The documentary is successful in making you think about how you look at food and with the holidays quickly approaching how pervasive sugar is and our addiction to it.

'Fed Up' is a great documentary well worth watching. If you're looking to make the promise to lose 20 pounds in 2015, make this film the top of your watch list. Just wait until after the holidays so you can indulge in guilt-free eating before your diet begins.

Big winds blow hard and some movies do, too. 'Into The Storm' is such a film. I didn't really try too hard to be clever with that previous line. Neither did the makers of this movie.

'Into The Storm' boils down to many great special effects sandwiched between the dumbest story filled with characters with the charisma of parking meters. If it weren't for the great special effects of tornados wreaking havoc in the movie, the film could have been called 'Snorenado' or 'ZZZZnado.'

If the filmmakers had come up with some interesting characters and an interesting story, then they might have had a classic dumb-but-enjoyable action movie. For instance, if the story had been set at a cardboard box manufacturing plant and the factory had a deadline to meet but a series of tornados threatened to disrupt the process, will the cardboard boxes survive this weather onslaught?

I can honestly say that I would have been more vested in the story and found all the cardboard boxes more entertaining and charismatic than any of the actors or story we get in this film. This film will serve as a great highlight reel for the special effects company that designed all the special effects and nothing else.

In the mood for a weather related disaster flick? Then rent 'Twister' or 'The Day After Tomorrow.' If you do rent or buy this movie then just skip the story part, the filmmakers certainly did, and just watch it for the awesome special effects.

In the mood for some laughs? Watch the really enjoyable trailer for 'Tammy,' because all the laughs in this film are right there. Here is a movie that could have been really good, if it had a decent editor, writer and director.

'Tammy' - starring Melissa McCarthy - has a great cast that is squandered. The script, which was co-written by director Ben Falcone (McCarthy's spouse) and McCarthy, needed some work. It had potential, which makes the failure of 'Tammy' all the more frustrating.

McCarthy does her best, as does everyone in this talented cast, but unfortunately they can't escape that the movie is aimless and drags on and on. The whole film is like someone telling you a joke about the boy who wanted to see time fly so he threw his clock out the window. Instead of stopping at the punch line, the storyteller continues with pointless information about the clock and how it hits the ground.

It is quite apparent 'Tammy' also fell into the same trap.

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