Movie Details
| Title: | Unfrosted | |
| Director: | Jerry Seinfeld | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Genre: | Comedy | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 05.03.24 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (0)
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 05.03.24 | Internet | Seinfeld's movie about the space race between Kellog's and Post to invent the Pop Tart. I can see why this movie is kinda getting trashed... it doesn't even approach reality. 100% unadulterated goofiness. There's no frame of reference, no grounds of relatability, no approximation of the real world at all. It reminded me a lot of the Acura commercials that Seinfeld made in the early Comedians in Cars days... with the astronauts leaving potato salad in the trunk as they blast off into space. It's such a bizarre construct of 60s what-have-you... not exactly funny but it is a vibe. I laughed quite a bit in a few scenes. It's kind of like the absurdism was rain and my head was one of those buckets that fills up until it tips over and dumps out then right-sides itself again. At certain moments the ol' brain was full and I couldn't help but laugh, while other scenes didn't rain quite hard enough to get me there. I have to applaud the execution of making this bizarre world. I definitely liked it more than Bee Movie, which I remember feeling like it dragged when it tried to bring in more conventional shit like story and conflict. This avoided all of that. Instead you get this kind of... I don't even know. It's like the jokes are old and artificial but also charming? I think the most tired gag involved a couple characters from a tv show that ended like 10 years ago but I even chuckled at that because it was like Seinfeld himself was in the room calling attention to the gag. So... I guess by rule of comedy, I laughed so I liked it? I'm honestly a little confused on how I felt about it. I certainly wanted to like it, and I did laugh. It's definitely better than other Netflix comedies like Apatow's The Bubble. But I can... definitely see how it doesn't work for many people. |
