Unfrosted
Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
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9
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9
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80
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonMay 2, 2024
The jokes spill forth so fast that there’s no time for the shtick to get soggy. Read full review
80
Total FilmKate StablesMay 2, 2024
A deliciously silly, spoofy tale of the 60s battle for breakfast domination, filled with high-fructose fun. Read full review
75
ConsequenceLiz Shannon MillerMay 3, 2024
It feels like a true labor of love, someone having a good time with funny people making something truly absurd. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanMay 6, 2024
While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the jumping-off point for a high-camp exercise in nostalgic lunacy. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMay 2, 2024
For those willing to put aside reality for 90 minutes, as Unfrosted does with gusto, the Netflix movie whips up a frothy sendup of storytelling tropes and clichés. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMay 2, 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. Read full review
70
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 2, 2024
It is incredibly stupid. Gleefully stupid. Relentlessly stupid. It’s also really funny. Is it any good? That does not seem to be a major consideration. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreMay 6, 2024
Yes, most every joke churned out here has a “low hanging fruit” or “fruit food colored” air about it. But Gaffigan, Schumer, McCarthy, Grant and most everybody here has a chance to score. And so they do. Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrMay 3, 2024
Unfrosted may be the Platonic ideal of the Netflix movie: ephemeral, edible, enjoyable, forgettable. Read full review
60
EmpireBen TravisMay 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. Read full review
60
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaMay 2, 2024
As a movie, Unfrosted is weak. As a delivery system for a barrage of funny, silly jokes, it's part of a nutritious breakfast. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawMay 2, 2024
As a whole, it’s not exactly a masterpiece, but amiable and funny in a way that’s much harder to achieve than it looks. Read full review
55
The Daily BeastNick SchagerMay 2, 2024
It's content to be childishly silly rather than legitimately weird, veering between gags concerning age-old products and Jan. 6 with a mildness that keeps things pleasantly pedestrian. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonMay 2, 2024
Seinfeld’s over-the-top, throw-in-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach makes for an uneven film, with some gags inspired, others groan-inducing. But its 1960s period detail and constant parade of familiar faces keeps things rolling. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubMatt SchimkowitzMay 2, 2024
This Pop-Tart material has legs. Unfrosted is by no means a failure. But it’s also about as satisfying as a soggy bowl of cereal. Loaded with his famous friends, Unfrosted is fitfully funny, depending on who’s on screen. Read full review
40
PolygonJoshua RiveraMay 6, 2024
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. Read full review
40
We Got This CoveredFrancisca TinocoMay 3, 2024
Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut is a family-friendly, overstuffed, unoriginal comedy film where the weakness of its central plot is masked by myriad celebrity cameos, including 15 different stand-up comics, characters all but doing backflips on screen and a lot of product placement. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneDavid FearMay 3, 2024
The idea of doing The Right Stuff of food stuff and treating the rise and fall of empires over a breakfast treat as U.S. History 101 is, on paper, a well-balanced meal. Onscreen, it comes off as a lot of half-baked self-satisfaction that leaves you woozy from the sugar crash. Read full review
40
CNNBrian LowryMay 3, 2024
Far from a passion project, this Netflix film distinctly feels – as one of its writers says in the production notes – 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. Read full review
40
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeMay 2, 2024
Oh, well. Perhaps the best response to junk food is junk cinema. Read full review
40
ColliderRoss BonaimeMay 2, 2024
Seinfeld has made a directorial debut that ends up feeling like a bowl of sugary cereal: not a terrible thing to eat, but not as fulfilling or substantial as you might’ve hoped it would be. Read full review
35
Paste MagazineTrace SauveurMay 2, 2024
If there’s one apt element Seinfeld and company bring to Unfrosted, it’s that they knowingly treat it like a bunch of silly bullshit. Read full review
33
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezMay 3, 2024
It’s maybe not excruciatingly bad, but certainly even less nourishing and satisfying than even the most fleeting and calorically empty of sugar highs. Read full review
30
Film ThreatAlan NgMay 10, 2024
Unfrosted is dumb. Not only is it dumb, it’s stupid. It commits the sin of being a comedy that thinks its funny. The film goes wrong in so many ways. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperMay 2, 2024
Unfrosted is one of the worst films of the decade so far. Read full review
25
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMay 2, 2024
Unfrosted sprinkles in a few choice examples of Seinfeld’s observational schtick (“the magic of cereal is that you’re eating and drinking at the same time with one hand”), but it mostly sees him using the film’s Boomer milieu as a backdrop for an uninspired mishmash of contrived sight gags and anachronistic cultural references. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyMay 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. Read full review
20
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiMay 2, 2024
If you thought Jerry Seinfeld’s funniest moments were in his American Express ads, then Unfrosted is the film for you. Read full review
12
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzMay 3, 2024
A handsomely produced, nearly empty experience, "Unfrosted: The Pop-Tarts Story" is hard to describe because it's tough to tell what the filmmakers were going for, much less argue about whether they achieved it. Read full review
12
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzMay 3, 2024
It’s not about nothing, but it is nothing special. Read full review
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