Review of Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead 2

In part one, Australian financier and juice-pusher Joe Cross documented himself dropping pounds and helping tubby truck driver Phil avoid an early coronary by encouraging people to consume only juiced vegetables. Some years have gone by and things haven't gone that well for Joe who reveals there is another 20 pounds of him after break-ups both romantic and financial. However, he's still juicin' (although he admits 30% of his calories come from the "processed" category). And he now has a worldwide (including the one person in Africa whom we meet) network of juiceheads to back him up. Unfortunately, they all want to ask about Phil, (who plays the John-the-Baptist role to Joe) and Joe is forced to say in one scene: "Everyone asks about Phil and, you know, this doesn't always work for everyone". To give you the short version moving to Detroit was the least of Phil's bad decisions in the intervening years between documentaries. Anyway, the actual documentary presents a combination of a sadder and lonelier Joe looking for juice in cities he can't remember landing in, some low budget animation and brief man-on-the-street interviews about people thinking about drinking juice. A couple of boring experts are also thrown in. Kudos to Joe to tempering his message this time and pointing out that good health is actually a pretty simple affair. In short, not really enough here to warrant a straight-to-video release.