Unfrosted

Name: Unfrosted
Director: Jerry Seinfeld
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Documentary, History
Released: 2024
Duration: 1 h 33 min
Cast: Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Max Greenfield, Hugh Grant

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Comedy
Drama

2024
Jerry Seinfeld
93 mins
12

Summary

Jerry Seinfeld directs, co-writes and stars in a comedy based on the real-life creation of an alternative to cereal and milk for American families. In the early 1960s, two companies - Kellogg's run by Edsel Kellogg III (Jim Gaffigan) and Post run by Marjorie Post (Amy Schumer) - monopolise the breakfast market. Post announces it has perfected the recipe for a fruit-filled pastry that can be cooked to perfection in a toaster. Kellogg's executive Bob Cabana (Seinfeld) joins forces with food innovator Donna Stankowski (Melissa McCarthy) to beat Post to market with a rival product that will eventually become the Pop Tart. The two companies jostle for supremacy and wreak havoc on interested parties including actor Thurl Ravenscroft (Hugh Grant), who voices Tony The Tiger

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Review

A star rating of 3 out of 5.

Laura Rutkowski

This movie was spawned by a joke Jerry Seinfeld told in his 2020 Netflix special 23 Hours to Kill, a bit about Pop-Tarts that took him two years to turn into a screenplay. His directorial debut, in which he also stars, charts the 1960s space race between Kellogg's and Post, who competed to create a delicious breakfast food. The impressive cast includes Melissa McCarthy as a Nasa scientist working for Kellogg's, Amy Schumer as the head of Post, and Hugh Grant as an actor playing Tony the Tiger. The film is entertainingly silly and absurd, with some laugh-out-loud moments, such as the inclusion of a ravioli creature and a funeral that involves "Full Cereal Honours". Unfortunately, the story is almost entirely fictional, and does a disservice to the real creators of the sugary snack. The team behind the movie never reached out to Kellogg's, and it shows in a film that has little interest in the true origin story of the Pop-Tart.

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5.5/10

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rolenameBob CabanaJerry SeinfeldDonna StankowskiMelissa McCarthyEdsel Kellogg IIIJim GaffiganRick LudwinMax GreenfieldThurl RavenscroftHugh GrantMarjorie PostAmy SchumerHarry FriendlyPeter DinklageMike DiamondChristian SlaterJFKBill BurrAndy WarholDan LevyJack LalanneJames MarsdenSteve SchwinnJack McBrayerHarold Von BraunhutThomas LennonChef Boy ArdeeBobby Moynihan