The activist documentarian Morgan Spurlock blended Michael Moore-style showmanship with Gen X bro appeal in his 2004 debut feature “Super Size Me,” a relentless examination of the fast food industry. Its main target was McDonald’s, and its big reveal was that the franchise’s food was even worse for your health than you might have imagined.

He’s back on the food chain gang here, as the title “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken” indicates. The movie opens with a teasing montage: Not a minute has gone by before we hear a TV talking head saying of Spurlock, “Well, you know his face, you know his name, the director-producer-actor and writer of the Academy Award nominee” and so on. The news is that he’s opening his own fast food restaurant