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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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
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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
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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
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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
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