The proliferation of corn in America is a cause for concern in King Corn as two twenty-somethings explore how this once rare plant has exponentially grown into one of the largest and economically viable agricultural crops in the United States. Hokey and bordering on trite, Ian and Curt's journey is laden with faux-shocking statistics about the dangers of corn and its role in perverting American values and how it is slowly killing the citizenry from the inside out. Informative at its core but blanketed in tawdry sentiment by phlegmatic documentarians.