Almudena

I found this movie incredibly pedestrian, mundane and uninspiring. All the characters are petty and immature. Why would anyone want to pursue a romantic relationship with any of them is beyond me, so that's the whole premise destroyed. Two stars for some OK acting, although Julia Dreyfuss seems to always be playing the same person in all the movies with her I've seen.

I found this movie incredibly pedestrian, mundane and uninspiring. All the characters are petty and immature. Why would anyone want to pursue a romantic relationship with any of them is beyond me, so that's the whole premise destroyed. Two stars for some OK acting, although Julia Dreyfuss seems to always be playing the same person in all the movies with her I've seen.

I am a long time fan of Jerry Seinfeld's. After watching this puerile, delusionally self-indulgent and most unfunny movie, I am very worried about his legacy, not only as a comedian and artist, but also as a human being. Unfrosted is goofy, unsubtle in its attempts at humour and never quite gets there, despite the phenomenal comedic talent enlisted for the project. Forget Jerry Seinfeld, I would have never thought it possible to watch Jim Gaffigan for so long without feeling even slightly amused. Part of the problem is that the topic choice couldn't be more pedestrian, mundane, banal or irrelevant. I get the nostalgia we all have for first childhood experiences with tasty food and independence. (I am able to open a packet, operate the toaster and have a cake-cookie for breakfast, yay!). There is just not enough in this to make a movie out of, unless you are prepared to say something else of value or at least disregard decades of adulation and ask yourself what is funny about all this and why (or why not). The supposedly humorous situations are stilted and cartoonish, they just don't lend themselves to flesh and blood characters. What makes it worse, and what compromises Jerry's legacy, is his explanation of what made this idea for a movie worthwhile to him. He says he misses an obvious hierarchy that is now lost (as in white men having all the power in society and all the say-so in any given situation). He also mentions his fantasies of wanting to be a "real man" and never quite getting there, never really growing up. These same themes were explored in Seinfeld, the TV series, but of course that show was actually hilarious and it managed to (perhaps unintentionally) put together an incisive satirical portrait of the self-obsession, narcissism and casual nihilism that is so prevalent in the American metropolis. Unfrosted attempts very little and manages even less, and all for rather ugly reasons. Jerry Seinfeld (who has elsewhere expounded on the importance of comedic timing and leaving on a high note) will now forever be the comedian who didn't know when to quit.