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- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 37 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Michigan, 1963. Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen.
Directed By: Jerry Seinfeld
Written By: Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, Barry Marder
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 37 m
- 2024
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 37 m
Unfrosted
42
4.7
Summary Michigan, 1963. Kellogg's and Post, sworn cereal rivals, race to create a pastry that will change the face of breakfast forever. A tale of ambition, betrayal, sugar, and menacing milkmen.
Directed By: Jerry Seinfeld
Written By: Jerry Seinfeld, Spike Feresten, Andy Robin, Barry Marder
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
42
30% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
30% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
42
30% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
40% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
30% Negative
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
The jokes spill forth so fast that there’s no time for the shtick to get soggy.
Unfrosted is a bonbon, a truffle, a trifle and a distraction from dispiriting news and disappointing drama upon which one can gorge as if it were a package of Fig Newtons. No, too healthy: Honey Smacks.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 71 User Ratings
4.7
41% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
14% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
45% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 71 User Ratings
4.7
41% Positive
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
14% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
45% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
As a movie, Unfrosted is weak. As a delivery system for a barrage of funny, silly jokes, it's part of a nutritious breakfast.
The movie represents months and months of sustained labor from hundreds of people, including many of the most talented and recognizable names in their field, in the service of a story that possesses no satirical edge, nor any human connection. It takes whatever pleasure that can be derived from a Pop-Tart, and chokes on it.
Oh, well. Perhaps the best response to junk food is junk cinema.
Unfrosted is one of the worst films of the decade so far.
It’s not about nothing, but it is nothing special.
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This is a silly comedy that doesn't take itself serious at all. It's the fictional retelling of how the Pop-Tart was invented. It has a star-studded cast, with whom each pull off their roles very nicely, and it was a fun time, but it is not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. In the same vein of silliness of movies like Naked Gun or Airplane, this movie has a lot of spoofs and gags in it, most of which land. I told my wife that while I had a good time with it, it is not a movie I will probably ever watch again. Turn your brain off when you go into this one, and you will have some cheesy fun.
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This movie is something of a mixed bag. It is trying to be too many different things and seeking to appeal to too many different audiences at once. It's trying to be nostalgic, surreal, zany and in part, a social commentary, but fails to really make it in any of these categories because it is just too fragmented. Essentially, it's just trying too hard. Most of the acting is 'OK' with Hugh Grant doing well but some of the acting looks as if the actors concerned didn't have their heart in it. It is watchable and some of the scenes are clever and can generate a smile (notably the storming of the Kellog building) but sadly, most of the comedy effort is too contrived and silly to find really amusing. Pity really because there is a germ **** idea here.
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Very very disappointing. It was like a stand up comedy movie with terrible jokes. I googled the real story and it was far more interesting.
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I tried to like it because Seinfeld. But the plot, the jokes, and Amy Schumer... Why would anybody put Schumer in their film? Netflix advertised the film with her face in my region. I am unsure if Netflix is aware how unpopular Schumer is. But Schumer aside, as critics and viewers pointed out, this film is like a wet and slow fart. Not worth your time. We gave up soon (and there has been nicely written company history films in recent years).
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