18 May '11

“Let’s be realistic. Americans are not going to change their eating habits to satisfy a self-righteous English millionaire. Maybe they should, but that is their concern.”
Andrew Billen, The Times            

“It’s a bit like a meal that repeats on you. Why do we need to see him doing more or less the same thing [as last year’s Food Revolution] in Los Angeles? The real answer, of course, is that the show is an America one.”
Matt Baylis, Daily Express

“As well-disposed as I am towards him…I can’t help thinking, what would we do, if Martha Stewart (say) came over here, and wanted to caper through our schools, telling us what to do?”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian

“You wondered whether his passion will be quite enough to counter the entangled barriers of political expediency, apathy, corporate interest and patriotic bloody-mindedness that he’s up against here. If there is a criticism of his…it would be that his incredulity at people’s choices can occasionally come across as a naivety about the complexity of the systems involved.”
Tom Sutcliffe, The Independent

“This is not a feelgood film. I felt that its agenda – the elaborate adoration of these daft, well-meaning dolphins – was an attempt to make it more uplifting, which was unnecessary. Something can deepen your understanding without making you feel good.”
Zoe Williams, The Guardian