Unfrosted (Netflix) - Review 

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

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Jerry is absolutely going to blame the failure of this movie on wokeness or something equally as stupid.

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.

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

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.

Seinfeld has become the old man who yells at cloud

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

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

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

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

Wait. This was a comedy??? You mean it wasn’t meant to be historically accurate?

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

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

I still remember when Seinfeld went on Letterman and tried to absolve Michael Richards (Kramer) from the controversy over him repeatedly yelling the n-word at audience members at a stand-up show. Seinfeld had Michael video conference onto Letterman and it was so awkward and painful to watch, & it was made even worse by Seinfeld scolding Letterman’s confused and uncomfortable audience to stop their nervous laughter.

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.

It's an ego project, to tell people that he got his favorite breakfast food made into a movie.

The work done on sets, props, wardrobe, photography, soundtrack is really good, you could see that was made with care. Other than that, it’s just a “see-it once goofy” type of movie, not memorable like many others.

Your description of this movie sounds like it would have been hilarious if it wasn't helmed by Seinfeld. I would be all about this if The Lonely Island had done it.

All comedians love blowing Seinfeld, but honestly he’s always come across as pretentious and borderline rude in interviews. Idk man. Besides the tv show 🤷🏻‍♂️ I’m sure Seinfeld thought this movie was great cus you know, he’s a comedian “genius”.

Two videos in a minute? Didn't see that coming 😅

I just need to see the poster to know the movie is shit

I missed silly movies from the 90s and 2000s with snl people. This had glimpses of it with the funeral scene, the depiction of sugar being coke and the milk men. It fell short of being an overall good movie but there are a couple good laughs i got

all I could think the whole time is "don't you have enough money jerry? this is what you say yes to?"

I appreciate that Dan's opinions as a critic are unbiased. This movie isn't for everyone. But I genuinely found it be funny and entertaining. The writing was really intelligent, something I haven't seen in a comedy in quite some time. Also aside from some innuendo it was pretty family friendly with very little foul language. Even Amy Schumer who is normally insufferable was kept on a short leash you could tell, and it actually helped. It's a shame Jerry's statements about the truth of comedy currently had so many critics triggered and gave the film unfair negative reviews. It was refreshing to see a good comedy. The first in a long time.

I made it through about five minutes of it. You’ve described the movie well, it struck me as being too self-aware and expecting the funny to be driven by the fact that they were doing what they were doing.

It’s light-hearted looney fun

Valuable review for someone like me, from the non-American part of the world where we don't even know who Chef Boyardee is, I think this is totally not for me.

If you were a kid in the sixties you will love this movie… if not-you won’t get it!

Me and my lady enjoyed this movie very much. Fun and funny the whole way through.

Seinfield pushing his movie by blaming "woke" culture is exactly him trying to hedge a movie he already knows is a stinker. It's like when your spouse starts a conversation with "Don't be mad but..."

I'm looking forward to Seinfeld continuing to expand the Nobody Asked For This cinematic universe

Seinfeld was never and will never be funny. The cast carried the show and everything he's done since has been hot garbage *cough*beemovie*cough*

Any comedian complaining about PC crap ruining comedy is just big mad that their style of comedy no longer appeals to a mainstream audience. They refused to adapt and grow their material so now they're just professional podcasters and walking ad-reads.

Comedians are so annoying when it comes to criticism. It’s always the audience or the crowd thats tough. Couldn’t be that the comedian didn’t know his audience, or a comedian recycling the same styles of jokes and audiences catching on. Comedians are legit like cops in how loyal they are to each other and the excuses they make for each other. Even people I generally respect like Bill Burr does this.

I think it's clear by now who was the brains behind Seinfeld

"You know what people want to watch?? A movie about pop tarts!" Who the FUCK thought that was a good idea??? 🤣 Jerry Seinfeld, I guess

My review: I watched this movie with my wife, who is a Kelloggs Canada sales executive, and we were both born in 1966. So, we had a vested bias going into it, and a generational attachment to the setting and the genre. There were a hundred or so small chuckles at all the Easter egg references to everything from NASA test piolot and Apolo missions, JFK's affairs and assassination, Andy Worhol's art, and many others I probably missed and would have to watch again to spot. It had laughs that this younger generation would never pick up on. In fact, if you are under forty, you'd probably be totally in the dark. We didn't pay $20 each to watch in a theater. We saw it on the comfort of our couch while eating Pop Tarts,,, excuse me "TRAT POPS". This wasn't meant to be a block buster or promote an agenda. If you're wondering what to watch tonight, are over 50, and can laugh at silly jokes, grab some Pop Tarts and give it a try. We enjoyed it.

Jim Gaffigan is one of my all time favorite comedians how could a movie possibly make him unfunny

Honestly, you've actually sold me on it. I think I'm in the mood for same terrible puns and early 90s humour.

All these big comedians like Seinfeld, Rowan Atkinson; Kevin James, Adam Carolla the moment they leave to make movies it never works. Farrelly brothers cracked the code, Jerry should have pay them to teach him the craft.

This movie has absolutely nothing on The Founder

"Don't worry I'll save you! The jack Lalanne way!" The simpsons

I uh.. actually enjoyed it. Left my expectations at the door and just had a fun silly time for a little bit.

This movie was acceptably enjoyable...better than I expected, anyway. Sure, it was a tame, safe for all audiences type of comedy. But it had some clever bits. Jerry's acting is still tepid on a good day. But the cameos were many, and it made funny analogies and parodies using 'cereal culture.' For free, I feel fine about it. If I had paid for it, I'd feel let down.

I am interested to see how this plays internationally as this is not a worldwide brand, it looks pretty bad from the trailers but I will wait to pass a full judgment until I have first hand experience with it myself. EDIT: 4:47 it's gonna be like that huh... oh. 7:46 ...

Got up early this morning to watch it honestly and it was just OK sometimes good. But I think that’s the biggest problem with this. It’s so unmemorable either being good or bad that it doesn’t stand out in anyway. In someways it’s playing it safe and just doing the same stuff over again other times it feels like it’s It’s time. It’s just there and honestly, it’ll be forgotten in a week . I’ve basically forgotten it already .

@ 3:52 "Unfrosted" can never be called stale since it was never fresh to begin with.

We watched it last night and we laughed our asses off. It is great! Hilarious.

The only reason the show "Seinfeld" was successful was because of Larry David, not Jerry Seinfeld. Jerry is a semi decent comedian but he was never edgy. It was Larry who brought the edge and laughs to the show and you can see how much he contributed to it because when he left the show , the last two seasons afterwards does not compare to the quality of the rest of the series. Jerry is just upset that his brand of humor has not aged well and he's not packing in the crowds like he used to. Jerry has done nothing of merrit after the show ended and resorts to cost by on the millions he made other than grow as an artist and work on his craft. Now, he's become a lest annoying version of Bill Maher By the way, great review Dan, you help me dodge a bullet this weekend

I liked it. As Dan said- if you are of a certain age and know alot of the things that existed in the 60s- then this is for you. I was born in 1963. Somethings even back then we did not understand why some things semmed so lame or camp so I thought there was a lot of sarcasm which I enjoyed. Solid 6.7 rating which is pretty good to me.

It was good. Looking forward to the sequel, Unsqueezed: The story of Capri Sun.

Seinfeld: “Comedy is dead” Also Seinfeld: Hires Amy Schumer

With entertainment and life things change! Entertainment has not stayed the same ever! The movies I watched in the 80s arent the same as the 90s 2000s etc. I dont get how people are hung up on back in my day blah blah. Im 48 and realize ths. The same complaints parents had 25 yrs ago is the same complaints now except we have social media. Change is the only thing that is constant. You may not like it but no one cares cause you cant stop it. So as people we have to evolve and grow too.

Jerry Seinfeld hasn't done anything in 30 years? He's been doing standup. He went out and started over after Seinfeld. On purpose. He's also been doing his Comedians in Cars show.

Saw this yesterday: "[Jerry Seinfeld] said that great TV comedies don’t exist anymore as “the result of the extreme left and P.C. crap, and people worrying so much about offending other people.” This coupled with Larry David literally trying to strangle Elmo (a puppet) on live TV a while back--are we sure the show Seinfeld was actually good, or were we just laughing at assholes? And I'm sorry, the most milquetoast, white bread of all white comedians has no business talking about the extreme left when he doesn't understand what the extreme left actually is (in global terms, liberals, especially neo-liberals, are considered center to center-right but are falsely labeled the far-left/extreme left as a pejorative by conservatives here in America; the actual "extreme" leftists aren't worried about P.C. language, they're (sometimes literally) fighting against both capitalism and government (anarchy in its original sense, not as chaos but as "no ruler"); in the most extreme examples, they've burned down churches, staged coups, assassinated leaders).

If this movie is the type of comedy that the “extreme left and PC crap” won’t let us make anymore, then I’m glad to see them go away lol.

Your intro and outro music always makes my 1 year old dance, so thank you for making content that all ages can enjoy!

I LOVED seeing him on the Curb finale so it’s a shame this didn’t work out

To be fair, a toasted Pop-Tart for breakfast is pretty, pretty, pretty good!

It was a fun movie, definitely some things wrong with it, but just an enjoyable family movie. The cast was absolutely stacked too.

Dan, thank you for trying to keep the TV show characters return a secret. I wish Netflix's social media had the same tact as you. I was scrolling through my feed yesterday and they've already posted the clip.

Sounds like the problem here is that Seinfeld is just no longer funny. He hasn’t been in over 20yrs. He never evolved with the times and his style was never time less

Comparing Jerry's post Seinfeld work to Larry David's really proves who was the true comedic genius.

its like watching a stand-up bit about pop-tarts and the early 60s, just acted out. So no surprise that its not a good movie...but lots of jokes that are funny if youre of a certain age. But wasnt Paula Poundstone the first comic to do the whole pop-tart bit thing and she isnt in the movie? The best thing of this movie is Bill Burr as JFK.

I have long suspected that the real talent behind Seinfeld was Larry David. This movie was dreadfully unfunny. It felt like a screwball comedy from the 60s that would have starred Peter Sellers. It was just odd. I chuckled a few times, but with this packed cast, I thought this movie would be hilarious. Also, I am glad you said what you said about the state of comedy, Dan. I remember when Eddie Murphy's Raw was both a huge commercial success, but it was also a bit of an unwelcome surprise to some folks who had only seen Eddie Murphy in movies, and they were surprised how "adult" his standup routine was. Def Comedy Jam was highly controversial when I was young. Or heck, You Can't Do That on Television infuriated some parents back in the day because it pushed boundaries for kid's programming. Married with Children was highly controversial. Andrew Dice Clay received A LOT of backlash (including death threats) during the height of his career, and that was one reason he took a hiatus. The idea that we all used to laugh at the same jokes, is absurd. That was never true. We have always had our own sensibilities and tastes.

Some jokes land flat but (fortunately) a serious amount of them made me laugh out loud and a few were downright genius. We live in a troubled and frightening era and Jerry decided to treat the audience (and himself) with a thick slice of fructose nostalgia. Can’t blame him honestly. It’s a fun movie, give him a break.

There's going to be a huge audience that is for this movie. This reason: it is hilarious! Comedy does not have to push social boundaries. It just has to make you laugh.

Bill Burr as JFK stole the show. The rest felt like a Wikipedia entry about 1960s pop culture stereotypes.

Dan is the down-to-earth critic we desperately need since Chris Stuckmann's decline

I have seen Jerry Seinfeld on late night TV taking the opposite tack and arguing that comics have always had to toe a line and that this is nothing new in comedy. I have also seen him change his mind about something mid-interview when new facts are presented to him. But then you can see with his recent remarks that this was all just posturing to maintain a likeable persona.

Of this review Jerry would say, “That’s a shame” which translates to: “I don’t care.”

Happy Friday Dan! No, I don’t plan on seeing this film. I thought the premise was promising. Actually surprised no one has thought doing something like this. Interested to see how it performs on Netflix. Also, looking forward to your review of “The Idea of You”.

I’m curious. What is a good movie comedy released this year?

As time goes on, it becomes more and more apparent that Jerry isn’t funny and Larry David hard carried Seinfield.

One of the worst movies I've ever watched. It tried so hard to be clever and failed... failed every single time. It was physically painful for me to watch this.

I got one laugh in the movie, when the actor and the milkman are talking in the bar. Cute movie, I was smiling through the whole thing, but it's not funny, merely amusing. I think Jerry should have been making movies for a long time, this is just his second outing, he doesn't have the structure and timing for a feature comedy film yet, but I hope he keeps making them. Edit: Forgot about the funeral, that was pretty good and absurd.

I'm a huge Seinfeld fan and thought the trailers were funny. I'm looking forward to checking it out. Even if I have to suffer through a few scenes with Amy Schumer. Ugh.

This movie looks absolutely abhorrent and agree it probably would be funny and a theatrical release in the late 90s (very telling that all the comedians in this are of a certain age). And I definitely think Seinfeld pulled a Newman with his interview because he knew this film was going to get crushed by critics.

I'm watching this only to see Bill Burr play JFK

"Seinfeld" and "Friends" on the NBC tv network; "Living Single" and "Martin" on the FOX tv network.. Great shows from the 90's (that wasn't neither on the WB, UPN or the CW).

"Unfrosted" was co-written by the IDF as a psychological weapon. 😄

I think the only way Jerry could make something good is if he created a sketch comedy show and even then it would be tough. I hope Larry moves on to broadway I could see him being great at that

You’re telling me a guy who would rather blame everyone else over people not finding him funny anymore would make a terrible movie about pop tarts that also had Amy Schumer in it? Color me surprised.

I disagree. Jerry Seinfeld is the Hiro Murai of breakfast cereal movies. Or as Jerry would call him: “Who?”

I enjoyed it. I think you were way to critical of this movie. No, it wasn't "Saving Private Ryan", but I didn't tune in to see something epic. I wanted funny, easy to watch, cool retro cars and Seinfeld's sense of funny. It was indeed a Netflix movie, and probably one of the better Netflix movies I've seen. Does that make it epic, clearly no. I would have given it an " it's good", or maybe "it's fine rating". I feel that "not a fan" was inaccurate.

00:33 - 00:45 well, that explains the quality right there.

Jerry Seinfeld complained about Cancel Culture over one his jokes that just wasn't funny at all. So if anyone doesn't know, it was a few years back he was on Seth Meyers he talked about how comedy is dead and you can't make edgy jokes anymore. He talks about this one joke he's told several times about people on their phones scrolling through them like a gay French king. He said people didn't laugh at the joke because it had a gay person in it. The thing is he only assumed it didn't get laughs because of the gay part when in reality it just wasn't funny.

Sounds like Seinfeld hasn't learned anything in 30 years.

I watched "Unfrosted" today. I guess my expectations were too high, but it was not as funny as I had expected... I bet they thought it was funny as they were playing it themselves, but for audience, it's a different story.

Some elements were expendable, but overall, I enjoyed the movie.

Review in one sentence: Crusty old gmo cornflakes from a vintage box from the 80s is more exciting to look at then this moronic and insulting flick.

jerry stepped out of his mansion and said , 'lets get those huge stars mellisa mcarthy and amy shumer in this !' no one had the heart to tell him