Unfrosted (Netflix) - Review

Jerry Seinfeld takes on the fake origins of the real Pop-Tarts in the latest 'product' movie. But is it a movie about nothing?

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[billg]

It's almost like he shouldn't have hired the writers of Bee Movie.

[ghouldishanimal]

I knew this wasn't gonna be good when the writer/director/star's press tour the week before the movie came out started with "films are dead" and ended with "comedy is dead"

[YearRoundHibernater]

Saying comedy is woke and screaming you've been cancelled is a sure fire way to get a big paycheck from netflix for a mediocre special. I think even the slower viewers are starting to realise that the milionaires saying they have no free speech into a camera and getting paid for it are maybe a little bit full of BS.

[ChicagoZ]

I was a Seinfeld super fan in the 90’s. Saw him do standup live in the early 2000’s. It was amazing. My first sign something was wrong was when I saw him live again like 15 years later and it seemed like the same set. Except this time it played much more like “angry senior citizen shakes fist at clouds” appreciate how clearly Dan articulated this.

[Redem]

It's nice that Jerry Seinfeld decided to spend his post Sitcom years proving that Larry David was driving creative force behind the show rather than himself.

[rohanb]

Seinfeld winging about comedy being ruined by "pc culture" whilst its always sunny is still going and then this film coming out to bad reviews is the biggest laugh of this film.

[matthewhunter]

I'm guessing that Seinfeld's recent comment about the movie business being over must have been the result of him seeing the final cut of this movie.
Not that I want to downplay the issues going on within the industry at the moment, but it's petty rich to say that while promoting a movie that you yourself directed.

[solvseus]

For those still whining that you can't even tell jokes anymore, when could you? People say things like "Blazing Saddles couldn't get made today". It was barely able to be made back then. Many of us saw heavily edited versions, especially on TV. You couldn't make a lot of what you can now back then. Lucy and Desi couldn't be shown in bed together, and even hearing a toilet flush could get you canceled. Like the Smothers Bros actually were, or censored like Carlin, or LITERALLY ARRESTED like Lenny Bruce. Meanwhile, most of those "canceled" comedians are still out there selling out shows, and comedy still exists.
Certain types of media like to scare you into thinking the rest of the world is out to get you, don't let them.

[ellicel]

Why is the voices crying the loudest about how they're being silenced also have some the biggest platforms? Whiners!

[wallhagens]

Seinfeld was never my favorite part of Seinfeld. He was lucky he had an amazing surrounding cast.

[shmee]

Seinfeld is just mad people keep bringing up that he dated a teenager when he was 38.

[goaway]

Seinfeld has become the old man who yells at cloud

[mariusiasi]

Seinfeld should have given Larry David a call, it's pretty, pretty clear who the guy behind the success was.

[gonzo]

I'll argue Movie 43 has a worse ratio of talent to laughs and I haven't even seen Unfrosted yet

[leejam]

Seinfeld is 70 so he has packed the movie with references to things from his childhood - he's 70 ! Im over 50 and even i had to look some of them up

[senior_ranger]

Cutting edge???? Seinfeld has NEVER been on the cutting edge of comedy! He's a journeyman who got lucky.

[bbcbbc]

I didnt mind the movie, but I grew up on pop tarts and found a lot of it nostalgic. Understand it will not appeal to all.

[aliservan]

He was very kind. It's garbage, don't waste a second on this

[brianmichaels]

the ratio of funny people to unfunny jokes was indeed awful, but Fool's Paradise pulled off the same feat just last year.

[julieharden]

I'm GenX, don't like Pop Tarts (I'm a Toaster Strudel girl) and I loved this movie. I thought it was absurdly funny. I love how the actors take everything so seriously in the middle of this absurd story.
It's fun. That's it. Just fun.