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I have noticed that this movie was pretty much a critical flop when it was released but, since I’m a huge fan of Jerry Seinfeld and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out anyway. Well, I’m afraid I would have to agree with the critics on this one. Indeed, even though it was pretty neat to finally see Seinfeld in a movie, even directing one for the very first time, I’m afraid that the damned thing was just not good though. Sure, from the very beginning, you might wonder if making a movie about the creation of the Pop-Tarts was such a great idea but, on the other hand, David Fincher did manage to deliver a modern classic about Facebook. Eventually, I can imagine that Seinfeld could deliver a pretty good joke about Pop-Tarts during his stand-ups but there is a big difference between having fun about it for maybe 5 mins and delivering an actual full-length feature about this subject. I’m not saying that it was impossible but the fact that Seinfeld never directed another movie before probably didn't help. Anyway, there is no doubt that he didn’t pull it off, that’s for sure. Indeed, as mentioned before, the story was hardly interesting from the start but, to make things worse, the characters were not much better in spite the solid cast involved (Jerry Seinfeld, Christian Slater, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Cedric The Entertainer, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, Maria Bakalova, Dean Norris, Peter Dinklage, Bill Burr, Jon Hamm, John Slattery). Concerning the cast, the best of the bunch was probably Hugh Grant but even his character was not exactly hilarious though. However, the worst thing was probably the fact that most of the jokes were barely amusing at all. Anyway, to conclude, even if the damned thing was rather harmless, it was still pretty lame and you should probably avoid it, expect maybe if you are die-hard fan of Jerry Seinfeld.
5/10
