Jerry Seinfeld’s debut as a feature film writer and director is a mess. His breakfast pastry-themed 1960s farce plays like he shot every idea he had and made it into a 93-minute movie, regardless of whether they worked together or were particularly funny.

| May 16, 2024

Unfrosted is silly and dumb, but it’s meant to be silly and dumb. You don’t expect it to take anything seriously and it really, really doesn’t.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2024

There's a lot of not terribly funny jokes in this film. A lot of hit and miss, sort of like a Saturday Night Live show where three-out-of-five jokes are vaguely funny and the other two aren't.

| May 13, 2024

That Seinfeld can’t act doesn’t matter. He’s surrounded by people who can. Hugh Grant is the highlight, as Thurl Ravenscroft, a Shakespearean actor who dons a tiger suit as one of the cereal mascots.

| May 10, 2024

It's not only a critic-proof movie, it's an artistry-proof movie, and an audience-proof movie.

| Original Score: .5/4 | May 5, 2024

This film is so eager to please that it ends with a song and dance number AND bloopers; mileage will vary on whether that frosts your flakes.

| May 3, 2024

If there was a thing called the IMDB Witness Protection Program whereby you could get your name taken off the credits of a particular project, this would be that project.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 3, 2024

Seinfeld’s affable mugging is no compensation for putting us through a glorified pitch session anyone sane would have nipped in the bud.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 3, 2024

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.

| May 3, 2024

It’s impossible to assemble this much comedic talent and not get a bullseye occasionally, yet the hit-to-miss ratio favors the latter way too much.

| May 3, 2024

Far from a passion project, this Netflix film distinctly feels like a punchline in search of a movie, built on a soggy parade of sugary cameos that doesn’t provide much snap, crackle and pop.

| May 3, 2024

All told, Unfrosted is the cinematic equivalent of a kid mixing every cereal from his parents’ cupboard into a giant salad bowl with the hope that a splash of milk will magically blend the various flavors into something palatable.

| Original Score: D | May 3, 2024

Seinfeld has genuine love for these mascots, this era, and this meal.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2024

But depending on one's tolerance for cereal humor, "Unfrosted" quickly wears out its welcome, and the jokes become soggier the longer it carries on.

| Original Score: C | May 3, 2024

Ephemeral, edible, enjoyable, forgettable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 3, 2024

Too much sugar and crust, not enough filling (like the Pop-Tart) — but some funny bits and cameos.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 3, 2024

This is the only corporate saga whose main ingredient is high-fructose sarcasm.

| May 3, 2024

The tone, however, is scattershot at best, and the film swings between madcap Willy Wonka-style fable and soft corporate satire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 3, 2024

If Pop-Tarts are barely a breakfast, Unfrosted is barely a movie — but it’s sprinkled with solid gags, stuffed with super-silly guest appearances, and lovingly glazed in sweet ’60s trappings.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 3, 2024

Everyone is both in on the joke and completely invested in getting a laugh. Like most broad comedy, not every joke lands. I didn’t keep a tally of what the percentage of hits vs. misses is, but I’m confident that more jokes landed than not.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 3, 2024