Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Tara "Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead" is a movie that I would strongly suggest for anyone who feels that he or she is unhealthy or overweight. It is based on a true story and it is one of the most inspirational movies I have ever watched. It describes the lives of mainly two individuals who make a proactive life decision to drink solely fresh fruit and vegetable juice for sixty days straight. The movie takes you on the journey of these two individual's lives and their progress as they make this healthy life choice. As Joe is the main character who starts this journey, his goal throughout the movie is to help as many people as he can to experience this incredible progress with him and to become extremely fit and healthy. I really enjoyed watching this movie and again, I would recommend it to anyone!

camileeusa-1 I would like to start with the one and only positive thing I have to say about this documentary. I went out today and bought a Hamilton Beach Juicer and $100 worth of vegetables and fruit. I researched recipes (you'll see at the end of this) and am researching "juicing" so I know how much, long, etc… I'm excited to start this for a number of reasons. First, I've gained a significant amount of weight ever since my depression and anxiety became overwhelming this semester and was given even more medication to alleviate it (not working). Second, it gives me hope that I'll be able to be medication free, thinner, healthier and most of all – free of anxiety and migraines that the lady juicer in this movie mentioned.That's all the sugar I could muster. I thought this documentary was only impressive due to the amount of weight loss Joe and Phil had on a juicing diet. Otherwise, I thought it was a disjointed, uninformative, annoying and a self-promoting movie by Joe Cross – about Joe Cross and how completely amazing, rich, genius and unstoppable he is because, of course, he is a super-human on a levels. I shiver at the thought of meeting him in public and the reaction people would have when I shake his hand and tell him I lost quite a bit too but I learned absolutely nothing from his video about how juicing works (unless you count the cartoons), how long is normal (60 days clearly isn't unless you're morbidly obese), how he could see clearer skin on that lady when I sure couldn't even with an HDMI connection and a 1080p TV and then after I stop shaking his hand, walk slowly away and with my nicest tone of voice say "You are not a hero, nor a movie star and did a terrible disservice with the money your parents jump started your shiny life with, so I beg you Mr. Cross, please take that Australian Beach, your cancerous tan and your extra arm skin back home. And for the love of God and everything that is holy, don't release that new 2012 documentary anywhere where people have some self respect!"Joe never really showed us how to juice at all if you think about it. I had no idea if he was making one or two or 50 servings at a time. I had no idea what to use to juice besides onion, tomatoes and what appeared to be celery or lettuce. Except for a quick roadside stop at the beginning where he blatantly overpaid those "poor American's" selling their homegrown produce to show what a great guy he is (in the meantime degrading the farmers - save the tip for off camera you jerk) and a grocery trip where – well, heck…that doesn't even count it was so uninformative. I never learned where the rest of the vegetable and fruit fiber went or what you are supposed to do about not getting that fiber in our system. Are we talking mulch for the leftover and vitamins for us? Totally devoid of vital information.Don't get me wrong, juicing is a great idea but watch a documentary that has a LOT more information or do the research on it yourself. I'm still shaking my head days later at the utter lack of knowledge. A before and after picture of Phil with a byline on him would have inspired me into buying a juicer and taken far less of a toll on my nerves.I honestly thought I was well into hour 2 when I finally lost my temper and stopped the video only to see that I was 5 minutes from the end and it was at 1 hour, 32 mins. The LONGEST hour and a half of my life. I'm cutting this review short so I can continue watching Food Matters which I can't stand not paying 1000% attention to. THAT movie will change you and your family's lives.

Cosmoeticadotcom On the surface, the film almost seems like an infomercial, as for its first half it follows Cross on a trek to America, to go on a 60 day juice fast. That is, the fortysomething Cross, who weighed in at over 300 pounds, at the start of the documentary, decides to end his years of dependency on steroids and medicines, to treat an autoimmune deficiency, as well as his high-flying lifestyle, so that he can get and stay healthy. He sees a doctor, gets an OK to begin his change in diet, then spends the first month in New York City, before heading out on a cross-country trek to spread his gospel of juicing fruits and vegetables for their easily digested vitamin and nutrient content. The film then follows the lives of a few people Cross encounters, gets the typical man in the street condescension, as well as a few converts, until, at about midpoint, Cross encounters a truck driver, in Arizona, named Phil Staples, who dwarfs Cross's weight, and checks in at over 400 pounds.When Cross's fast ends, and he is almost a hundred pounds lighter, he heads back down under until, a few months later, he gets a call from Staples, desperate to change his life, who asks Joe for the help he offered when they met. The second half of the film thus becomes Staples' even longer journey to health, and the film follows him for almost a year, as he loses weight, gains local celebrity, and nurses his older brother, Barry (also obese), into a healthy lifestyle after he suffers a heart attack.The film gets its message across well, and never comes off as preachy. Cross seems genuine in his mission, and even has his own website dedicated to the cause. The lone negative in the film is the really bad animation that is repeatedly used, for any other critiques of the film would center on what it is obviously not, instead of what it is: a well made biography of two men and their struggles with eating and health.

David O'Brien What started out as an easy going documentary about a juice diet, ends up being something altogether more profound and life affirming. We meet Joe Cross, a very likable Aussie who travels to the States, the home of junk food, to start a juice only diet, with a juicer hooked up to his car battery and a vast array of fruit and veg. He decides to hang around outside some of the fast food places he used to frequent. He also interviews people he meets about their diets or lack of them and their anticipated life expectancies. Most of the results are shocking. Most of the overweight people don't think they have the willpower to change, and in some cases are accepting that they will die in their 50s. Joe sticks with his diet for 60 days, and he manages to lose a lot of weight. The film becomes more profound when he meets Phil Staples, a truck driver with even bigger weight issues than Joe. He reaches out and asks Joe for help. The results are staggering. Joe's weight loss is excellent, but Phil's eventual weight loss is even more spectacular. Phil becomes an advocate for the juice diet and turns his life around 360. Overall this film is life affirming and touching. It espouses the benefits of a simpler diet, and is a celebration of life rather than a sermon. It's worth watching. Not sure I would be brave enough to try that diet though. Maybe when I hit 400 pounds !