![]() These sequences, unremarkable as they are, at least take Gameau away from public spaces, where his camera can’t help but locate the most extreme cases of sugar abuse. In fact, Gameau structures his film almost identically to Morgan Spurlock’s hatchet job by planting himself at the front of the proceedings, replete with instances of him being weighed and having his tummy measured. If that sounds quite similar to Super Size Me-well, it is. Come to find out, they are loaded with high-fructose corn syrup and, just as Gameau anticipated (and needed for the lure of his film), he starts to pack on the weight and see significant changes to his body composition in just a small amount of time. The catch is that he can only eat foods that are marketed as healthy, like low-fat yogurts, juices, or energy bars, in an effort to uncover whether these items, which are commonly integrated into diets, are also poisonous to the body. But Gameau wants to know: Is sugar really that bad for you? With a daughter on the way, he decides that, for six weeks, he will shift his high-fat, low-carb, no-sugar diet to increase his sugar intake to 40 teaspoons of sugar a day-the average amount for a typical, Australian male. He exercises on his homemade gym a couple of times a week and has been persuaded by his pregnant girlfriend to start eating smarter and leading a fitter lifestyle. It’s nicely photographed and there is an interesting story, but the beginning is very slow and bloated, and it’s also a story about stupid criminals.Damon Gameau, the writer-director and subject of That Sugar Film, is a generally healthy man. Sugar makes good usage of the cruise ship and the different locations they get stopped in: Panama, Lima, and Tahiti. The only thing it can focus on is the friendship the girls have formed with each other, and that’s not all that satisfying. It definitely gets more interesting as it goes along, but the underlying problem remains that these girls are stupid, and I don’t think the movie ever realizes how stupid they are and can’t elevate it into a better story. The plot also picks up significantly once the girls realize that they’re cocaine mules and keep trying to come up with escape plans. ![]() It does a good job of capturing the more gritty wannabe lifestyle in Montreal, contrasted with the gorgeous upscale scenery of life on a luxury cruise ship, and then once the girls find out, contrast that luxuriousness with an unstable paranoia with no escape from the people who got them into this mess. ![]() Well, Chloe has an inkling it might not be on the up-and-up but she lives this kind of life anyways, Melanie doesn’t though. When Melanie meets Chloe and then a sleazy, quasi-club-owner Jules (Éric Bruneau) who invites them to hang out on a cruise ship for a few weeks and make $50,000 they go “sounds awesome” but instead any reasonable person would go “Umm, no? obviously there’s a catch, and likely an illegal one at that.” These girls are too stupid to realize that no upstanding citizen is offering them $50,000 just to have fun lounging out by a pool on a cruise ship. We sufficiently get to know these two girls by just the first scene, but the movie really slows things down and starts off on the wrong foot by spending the first half hour introducing these two stupid, stupid girls. Melanie (Jasmine Sky Sarin) is a wannabe Instagram star so she hangs out at clubs hoping to get in with the cool people. She makes her living by doing whatever rich men want her to do. Starring: Katherine McNamara, Jasmine Sky SarinĬhloe (Katherine McNamara) is Instagram famous and perennially involved with bad people. Screenplay by: Ben Johnstone, Annelies Kavan, Vic Sarin These are the two most materialistic morons on the planet and they’re not more complicated than that. These are not innocent girls who got caught up in drug smuggling. ![]() There’s the obvious potential for a movie right there, and it’s not so much that the movie fails, but that it doesn’t understand its two main protagonists. Sugar is based on the true story of two Canadian Instagram models/influencers who find themselves as mules in the middle of a cocaine smuggling ring. A story of stupid criminals on a cruise ship.
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