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Morgan Spurlock has been out here to present his new documentary at the Brisbane and Melbourne Film festivals.

Spurlock made his name by living on MacDonalds and nothing but for a month, in the documentary Super Size Me. He became obese, and his liver was in very bad shape. MacDonalds hated the movie, but they did cut supersize serves off their menus.

Since then Spurlock has made a reality television series, and then a second documentary, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden - a rather faux search for the US public enemy number one, which took him to a number of middle eastern countries, talking to supporters of Islam from various walks of life. Surpise suprise...most of them weren't too impressed with Osama Bin Laden either. Though to one or two, he was a hero.

Did Spurlock ,em>really expect to find Bin Laden? Did he really expect us to go along with the idea?

Well, we may have, should there have been much in the way of new in formation. But mostly, we get to meet a bunch of fairly nice people, who are, gee, folks just like us.

Is this a documentary or a travelogue? Aimed at whom, exactly?

One thing I discovered whatever the question, Morgan Spurlock remains relentlessly affable.

Presenter

Julie Rigg

Producer

Julie Rigg