# 'Unfrosted' trailer drops. Anybody gonna watch the movie?
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** netflix, movies
**Created:** [March 29, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561 "2024-03-29T13:35:34Z")
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/1 "2024-03-29T13:35:35Z")
I’m skeptical of whether this movie will be a waste of an hour and a half or so of my time or not, since ‘The Bee Movie’ was awful. It made me decide that Larry David was clearly 99% of the comedic and creative drive behind Seinfeld.
And now, after watching the trailer, I’m…still skeptical? I mean, it’s going to be on Netflix May 3, so it’s pretty much a certainty that Mrs. solost and I will get around to watching it at some point from sheer inertia, if no other reason.
A few observations about the trailer:
It looks pretty. Taking place in 1963, the sets and clothing are a sort of elevated, brighter, almost cartoony version of the look and general aesthetic of the early 60s.
Holy bejeebers, is it star-packed. Well, at least plenty of actors and comedians you will recognize. Seinfeld certainly got the call out, and convinced plenty of Hollywood to come out and play.
Did I laugh during the trailer? Not once. There were two parts where I…I won’t say I _almost_ laughed, but I thought to myself “decent joke”. The first was a sight gag: the CEO of Quaker Oats was an actual Quaker, in full Quaker Oats logo beard and costume. The second was when Seinfeld and some other Kellogg’s execs were meeting with President Kennedy for some reason, and Melissa McCarthy’s character showed Kennedy a proposed drawing of a Pop-Tart. Kennedy says “that’s worse than my son John-John’s drawings, and I seriously think there’s something wrong with him”. I don’t know, the line reading in the Kennedy Boston brogue was amusing to me.
> **[Jerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted is as goofy as you'd expect in new trailer](https://www.avclub.com/jerry-seinfeld-unfrosted-netflix-trailer-1851371577)**
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> Unfrosted, starring Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, and Hugh Grant, premieres on Netflix on May 3
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### Author:  [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/2 "2024-03-29T14:12:00Z")
“Crudely drawn picture of the new invention” gag, “list of obviously terrible names for the new invention” gag….how much of this film **isn’t** ripped off from _The Huducker Proxy_?
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/3 "2024-03-29T14:14:26Z")
Good observation…I haven’t seen THP for a long time, so I didn’t make the connection.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/4 "2024-03-29T14:19:55Z")
From “Variety”:
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> In addition to Seinfeld, the A-list cast features plenty more comedic icons, including Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer, Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater, Bill Burr, Daniel Levy, James Marsden, Jack McBrayer, Thomas Lennon, Bobby Moynihan, Adrian Martinez, Sarah Cooper and Fred Armisen.
My gut tells me, looking at this cast list, that this is going to be a mess.
Maybe I’m wrong.
mmm
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/5 "2024-03-29T14:22:07Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#):
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> My gut tells me, looking at this cast list, that this is going to be a mess.
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> Maybe I’m wrong.
I have a feeling that this movie will compare to a good, funny comedy the way a Pop-Tart compares to a home-made freshly baked fruit pie.
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/6 "2024-03-29T14:25:02Z")
I’m down for most media that doesn’t take itself seriously, and this looks like it fits the bill. So I’m in.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/7 "2024-04-29T18:36:06Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXIdgxF7Jdg)
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uv1ofWr8Zk)
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/8 "2024-04-29T18:45:23Z")
That is a list of so called comedians I find painfully unfunny most of the time.
Led by Melissa McCarthy, Amy Schumer, Bobby Moynihan & especially Fred Armisen.
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/9 "2024-04-29T19:16:57Z")
> [@solost](#):
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> The first was a sight gag: the CEO of Quaker Oats was an actual Quaker, in full Quaker Oats logo beard and costume.
Was that the CEO, though? The trailer features several people dressed up as company mascots, including Tony the Tiger and Snap/ Crackle/ Pop. (Chef Boyardee was a real person) Even if the character IS the CEO. it’s not necessarily his normal clothes in-story.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/10 "2024-05-03T15:57:48Z")
Here’s an AVClub review of the movie. The The link preview text and the ‘C’ grade the review gives the movie pretty much says it all, and is about what I would have expected after watching the trailer:
> **[Jerry Seinfeld’s cereal comedy Unfrosted is just a little soggy](https://www.avclub.com/jerry-seinfeld-s-cereal-comedy-unfrosted-is-just-a-li-1851452554)**
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> Jokes fly fast and loose in this Airplane! for the Air era, but only some land safely
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/11 "2024-05-03T17:03:00Z")
Chicago Sun-Times, uh, didn’t like it:
> **[Jerry Seinfeld's 'Unfrosted' is one of the decade's worst movies](https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2024/05/02/unfrosted-review-netflix-jerry-seinfeld-pop-tart-movie)**
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> Inspired by Pop-Tarts, the Netflix comedy serves jokes that are just as weird and flat.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/12 "2024-05-03T17:26:09Z")
> [@JohnT](#):
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> Chicago Sun-Times, uh, didn’t like it:
Whoah, _ **that** _ was a brutal review. I’ll still watch the movie, with expectations accordingly lowered and tuned more to ‘irony watch’ settings.
My feeling though is, as pessimistic as I’ve been toward the movie in this thread, I don’t think it’s going to be _ **quite** _ as bad as Mr. Roeper thought it to be. Take this passage:
> Snap, Crackle and Pop are depicted not as actors, but as individuals named Snap, Crackle and Pop. They seem to have no normal human alter egos; they’re never out of character. The same goes for Chef Boyardee (Bobby Moynihan) and Isaiah Lamb (Andy Daly), aka the Quaker Oats guy. These characters are depicted not as actors playing roles, but as the living embodiments of their respective brands.
The CEO of Quaker Oats being an actual old-timey Quaker I thought was one of the funniest gags of the otherwise ‘meh’ trailer. And, uh, Chef Boyardee _ **was** _ an actual Italian chef-- Chef Ettore Boiardi, spelled phonetically so Americans could pronounce it. Moynihan plays him as a caricature, no doubt, but he was a real person, and _ **was** _ pretty much a living embodiment of his brand.
So I’m not saying I think the movie will be very funny, or that Roeper is necessarily wrong, but that feels like an unnecessarily mean-spirited review of someone who’s a bit humor-impaired.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/13 "2024-05-03T17:44:29Z")
The overall reviews are somewhat negative, but not as scathing as the Chicago Sun Times.
Tarot, another movie coming out this weekend, is actually getting even more trashed. It is apparently quite bad. It has 7% positive on Rotten tomatoes and a 35 score on Metacritic.
Unfrosted has 46% positive and a 43 on Metascore.
Nothing to be happy about, but Unfrosted appears to be competent, but Tarot is bad for even a “one weekend box office” horror movie.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/14 "2024-05-03T18:37:32Z")
The History Channel’s [The Food That Built America](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26345416/?ref_=ttep_ep1) had a show about the war between Post, who invented the concept, and Kelloggs, who promoted the hell out of an imitation and reaped the victory.
I keep waiting for someone to mention this. It aired January 2023, and all accounts insist that the film was in the works already, but TFTBA is already so camp that it wouldn’t take much to beef it up into a glorious face.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/15 "2024-05-03T19:07:15Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Nothing to be happy about, but Unfrosted appears to be competent, but Tarot is bad for even a “one weekend box office” horror movie.
Just watched the trailer. Tarot cards being Jumanjied.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/16 "2024-05-03T19:27:35Z")
Dropped on Netflix today. Saw a bit about it on TV this morning. Seinfeld’s first time directing and starring in a full length movie. Stupid idea. He can’t sell the idea. Saw this thread. Pulled it up on Netflix. Watched for 7 minutes. Done watching. It must get better because it’s not possible to make a movie that stays that bad for more than 7 minutes.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/17 "2024-05-03T22:22:17Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> glorious face.
glorious _farce_ [is there a facepalm selfie? yes there is: 🤦♂️]
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2024, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/18 "2024-05-03T23:39:10Z")
Horrible ratings and reviews on both IMDb and RT. Supports my belief that the _Seinfeld_ TV series was a fortuitous and mostly accidental confluence of brilliant writers and performers and little to do with Seinfeld himself. Seinfeld was right in believing that he could never do it again, but wrong in believing that he could actually go on to successfully write and direct a movie.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/19 "2024-05-04T01:27:12Z")
I decided that I _had_ to see how bad it was, and just now watched it. It wasn’t good. I would say that there was absolutely nothing funny about it, except there was a brief _Mad Men_ crossover buried deep in it that I enjoyed.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2024, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unfrosted-trailer-drops-anybody-gonna-watch-the-movie/999561/20 "2024-05-04T20:30:58Z")
My thoughts from the general movies thread:
Maybe recommended?
Hear me out. It’s incredibly silly. Incredibly. I mean, this whole thing feels like a children’s movie for the most part. It’s zany, wacky, goofy, and is mostly just joke after joke. I see it is rated PG-13, but it is almost G-rated or PG at most for about 99% of it.
My son was laughing a lot because whole thing is just so zany and silly. I smiled here and there, but really it isn’t all that funny and I have no idea what Jerry Seinfeld was hoping for when he made it. It’s just a very silly goofy comedy that feels like it is from another time.
I can’t even rate this one, but I can disagree with the Chicago Sun Times who said it is one of the worst movies of the decade. Bizarre? Yes. Atrocious? Not really.
Just very strange.
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