Jerry Seinfeld directs himself, Melissa McCarthy and Amy Schumer in this comedy that reimagines the invention of the Pop-Tart as if it were the space race between cereal brands.

Overstuffed with cameos and an onslaught of cultural references to things that were forgotten before any of Jerry’s girlfriends were even born, Unfrosted reeks of a vanity project. It could be a live action Pixar rip-off about breakfast or a The Right Stuff of morning foods but it forgets the laughs. Plenty of jokes but few hit. A terrible gag to reaction ratio. The two kids who have their finger on “the goo” pulse are very funny. Like The Phantom Menace or The Adventures Of Pluto Nash this is a movie that exists only because nobody felt they had the power to say no to a creative who reached their commercial peak a very long time ago.

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Perfect Double Bill: Toys (1992)

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