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« Last post by Kaos on May 08, 2024, 11:10:31 AM »
Unfrosted
The return of Jerry Seinfeld in a film that lampoons the great toaster pastry war of 1963. Post and Kelloggs raced to market with a shelf-stable heatable pastry and in the end Kelloggs won the war. Not because theirs was necessarily better. In fact, the two were essentially identical. Post's entry flopped because their marketing department landed on the name "Country Squares" which didn't resonate.
This film reminded me a lot of something Mike Judge would do and I spent much of the movie wishing Judge had actually done it. Would have been so much better.
This wasn't a good vehicle for Seinfeld. It just wasn't. It was also very disappointing that he kowtowed to basically every low-rent, unfunny hack in Hollywood. There were so many people (most of them detestable) stuffed into this film it's practically impossible to list them all. Amy Schumer (who unbelievably wasn't the worst part of the movie), Fatty McPhee...umm... Melissa McCarthy, Hugh Grant (as Thurl Ravenscroft who sang the Grinch song and voiced Tony the Tiger), James Marsden, Christian Slater, Tyrion Lannister, Jim Gaffigan, John Slattery/Jon Hamm (reprising Mad Men roles), Dean (Hank from Breaking Bad) Norris as Kruschev, Tony Hale, Felix (Ozark) Solis as a cuban sugar dealer, and a BUNCH of second or third tier SNL vets - the unfunny ones like: Mikey Day, Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney, Bobby Moynihan, and Fred Armisen.
The best parts were Bill Burr as JFK, Darryl Hammond and Kyle Dunnigan as Ed McMahon and Johnny Carson, and Dunnigan again as Walter Cronkite.
It tried to hard to be funny that it was kind of painful and cringey in places. The January 6 spoof wasn't nearly as humorous as they intended it to be.
Overall it was kind of ridiculous. Seinfeld - and I love his show - really wasn't the right person to bring this story to the (breakfast) table. It suffered at his hand.