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Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

Very well done documentary describing a brave and persistent sixth grader's campaign to end state-mandated Body Mass Index (BMI) testing and fat-shaming letters sent to students with their results. My favorite scene is when the interviewer asks congressman Eric Kearney (after FINALLY getting an interview with him, which could almost be a documentary in itself) if she can measure *his* BMI. Watch it, it's entertaining and you'll learn something!

Oh look, two brave girls standing up to a tyrannical government because they got their feelings hurt talking about their weight. This is not a documentary, it is a one sided piece pushing an agenda. The BMI is a tool to get people discussing health in a country with a major obesity problem. But these girls are more concerned about their feelings getting hurt than discussing the real problem of obesity. They think should have the right to choose not to be healthy and choose to limit others discussions about BMI. This documentary reminded me of when people say fox news is fair and balanced, while ignoring the obvious propaganda being pushed. This girl has an agenda to push about the overreach of the government. Essentially her argument is we should make no attempt to educate people on obesity because it hurts peoples feelings to find out they are overweight and unhealthy.She thinks people should have the right not to take a BMI test. Should they be able to opt out of being weighed or their height measured?

"When a brave high school student takes a stand against state-mandated BMI tests of her peers, she finds herself in the middle of a heated national controversy". With an alarmingly increasing number of child obesity, you would think that a BMI test would *dare I say* be actually beneficial towards the health of students? Films like this that cater to peoples feelings and not facts make me gag. That being said, the film was a fairly average documentary at best and was obviously aimed at people with body confidence issues aka fat people that can't be bothered to do anything about their weight problems and would rather blame the government for 'fat shaming them'. TL;DR Films for fatties. Barely worth my 3 stars.

This was an interesting small documentary by a young and I hope upcoming documentary film maker. In the USA 20 states mandate students have their "BMI" (Body Mass Index) tested so as to gauge their student population's "health". But given that for anyone in the business of health it is known that BMIs are a useless number, that generally healthy and athletic people with good muscle mass register as obese with BMI as BMI does not distinguish between muscle weight and fat weight, it is highly surprising that any governing agency would take this path to assess the health of its youth.But beyond BMI being scientifically useless, the government then goes on to send fat shaming letters to the students involved along with their report cards! In the documentary, the BMI of legislators is also assessed when possible, revealing that only three of the dozens of people the documentarist interviewed had an "acceptable" BMI.This documentary spends a lot of time watching itself being made, like a lot of documentaries these days, rather than being focused entirely on content. Mind you, this is rendered necessary to reflect politicians' unwillingness to discuss public issues with the public. It does have some decent interviews with both pro-BMI advocates and doctors/health processionals who denounce it for its futility.The issue of obesity goes way beyond an individual's mindset, it is a societal mater, how our food culture is structured, how our sleep culture is structured, how our work culture is structured, how our environmental quality has suffered, how global diseases impact health, how global issues are made visible at the individual level.At one point, a pro-BMI advocate explains how great a tool it is since it is non invasive, quick, uncomplicated, and requires no blood test. But the truth is: Quality in, quality out (QIQO). If you develop evaluation systems with poor data, you get poor results.All in all a very decent documentary.