Middle Age Movie Review – Unfrosted

Jerry Seinfeld is back! In a screwball comedy that is a cross between Seinfeld’s American Express commercials and a self-aware Michael Myers comedy, comes Unfrosted – a fictious telling of the invention of the Pop Tart.

Set in the 1960s and interweaving the Cuban Missile Crisis, the moon landing, Scarface and countless other cultural references of the era, this movie is a hilarious send-up the war between Kelloggs and Post for dominance in breakfast dominance.

Only a genius like Jerry Seinfeld could think up the premise of the invention of the Pop Tart – “Pop Tarts, what’s up with thaaaat?”

Seinfeld and script writers Spike Feresten and Andy Robin who worked with Seinfeld on Bee Movie, create this original comedy with a 90s feel. Sure, the movie didn’t score well with the critics, but we suspect that’s because they’re still butthurt by Seinfeld saying that the woke ruined comedy.

Unfrosted is packed with comedic brilliance, from Jim Gaffigan who plays the fictitious Edsel Kellogg to Melissa McCarthy to Amy Schumer (I know, right?) as the real life Marjorie Post.

Wonderful supporting characters include Christian Slater as the strong man of the Milk Mafia, Hugh Grant as the classically trained Shakespearian actor forced to play Tony the Tiger, Tom Lennon as the German with the questionable past who bonds with Chef Boy-Ar-Dee played by Bobby Moynihan, James Marsden as fitness celebrity Jack Lalanne and so many others. For them alone, it’s worth checking out.

If you need one more reason to stop reading this and immediately watch this – Jon Hamm reprises his role in Mad Men in a cameo that will have you laughing out loud.

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