My buddy watched this and liked it alright enough, I've seen a lot of negative reviews, and just not sure if I want to invest my time. Before anyone says "dont be a sheep" I didn't have a burning desire for a pop tarts movie to begin with so out of the gate watching this was a slim chance.
Last year Kellogg's changed their name to **ahem** Kellanova. 😒🙄 From what I've read, it seems like a VERY out of touch attempt to sound... futuristic? Changing one of the most well-known and even notorious names around after 117 years is silly. Kinda fits in with this movie's attempt at being good.
All of these jokes are flat because they're the base level hackneyed 90s jokes that have been told ad nauseum by now. If you grew up in the 90s or early 2000s watching cartoons, you have seen every last one of these jokes either with better premises or better punchlines elsewhere. Seinfeld is a lost, confused dinosaur who hasn't realized that the comedy world evolved beyond his capabilities three to four generations ago. Every five minutes felt like "wow, I haven't heard that joke in a long time" or "wow, I remember when stuff like this was funny."
I watched this film a few weeks ago on a sofa day with my wife in the middle of a bad-weathered Sunday. We thought it was a childishly funny, and was enjoyable to turn off your brain and have it on in the background whilst we talked and then periodically browsed our phones. The problem is that the story of the Pop Tart isn’t actually well known. Rather than have a Family Guy styled parody of the story, it would have been far more interesting to have had a film that leans into the drama and potential comedic moments and intrigue of the real life events with whilst still allowing for some embellishment. A lot of films successfully accomplish this, with varying levels of comedy entwined. such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, War Dogs, Ford vs Ferrari, Fighting with my Family, I Tonya, and many more. At the end of the film, I finished and wondered what I’d watched it for. Was it a particularly funny concept? Maybe, but it was executed far too crazily to have been anything more than a series of conceptual slices of comedic thoughts strung together under the generally vague umbrella of ‘cereal-related’ jokes. Was it particularly informative? I have absolutely no idea what was a potentially true fact, twisted amongst the sea of regular looking people mixed with cartoonish characters, clear faux historical scenes to obtain the eventual punchline, and random moments that seem to have been made with the intention to straddle the line between truth or fiction, but subsequently played out in such a fashion that it couldn’t possibly have occurred in the way shown. Clearly, there’s companies called General Mills and Kelloggs, and Pop Tarts are obviously a thing. Some of the staff - presumably the core cast - were real, and the overall “battle of the cereals” on store shelves would have been no less real than what any competing companies experience, but picking out embellished true facts anywhere between the real-life Snap, Crackle and Pop characters, and death battle meetings between companies, who knows? I’d give it a 4/10, a 5/10 if you experienced it like I did.
NASA did play an indirect part in the creation of Pop tarts. It was their invention of a shelf stable fruit paste that opened the door to a ready-to-eat shelf stable fruit pastry.
I love the sitcom Seinfeld while not caring for Seinfeld as a comedian. This movie, though, I did enjoy. In many ways it's a throwback to the whacky movies of the 80s. Some of the posters here take issue with this and trash the movie for being dated and behind the times. I don't know, I think it's okay to revisit and pay homage to the past. I was also shocked with the 2/10 score. While the review was generally leaning negative a number of positive points were raised so I was anticipating 4 or 5.... so yeah, the 2 out of 10 seemed a little stingy.
Pop tarts: A foodstuff quite rarely found in the outside world, consequently rendering the project absolutely worthless to a non-domestic audience who, like pretty much anyone under 30, also have no connection to its star, Jerry Seinfeld, whose cultural cachet rose and fell 20 years ago, before much of the potential domestic audience was even born. Add in the fact its Americana-drenched names and brands offer even less to offer to international audiences - now vastly more into South Korean culture - and the whole thing absolutely screamed *Rich Ageing White Guy's Vanity Project* from the get go. Jerry Lewis' VP was about a clown and the Holocaust. Jerry Seinfeld's was about pop tarts. Neither was palatable to audiences, but here's Seinfeld, raging into the void about woke audiences, instead of conceding that the project didn't have any legs, reach or appeal.
I wanna know if this was his idea or Netflix cause of the product placement faze of studios making commercials for Air Jordans and whatnot. Mind you, Air is 30 times better than this crap. Pros I'll say are the samller roles like Dinklage, Slater, Jon Hamm and John Slattery.
Not sure who these “Critics” you’re referring to are. But like I said in the video, comedy is a very subjective thing. So this movie would certainly be funny and enjoyable to some people.
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What’s your favorite Pop-Tarts flavor? Personally, I’m a s’mores guy.
I’m not a pop tart guy lol
@@KamalNooreddeenbruh it's are childhood
I like strawberry, and blueberry too.
Brown sugar cinnamon stays unbeaten
@@KamalNooreddeen fair. They are dry as dirt.
My buddy watched this and liked it alright enough, I've seen a lot of negative reviews, and just not sure if I want to invest my time. Before anyone says "dont be a sheep" I didn't have a burning desire for a pop tarts movie to begin with so out of the gate watching this was a slim chance.
What’s the deal with pop tarts? I mean, they don’t pop.. they’re not that tart.. I mean.. what’s the deal??
Last year Kellogg's changed their name to **ahem** Kellanova. 😒🙄
From what I've read, it seems like a VERY out of touch attempt to sound... futuristic? Changing one of the most well-known and even notorious names around after 117 years is silly. Kinda fits in with this movie's attempt at being good.
I think this movie has a really good concept, just wasted on the most unfunny "comedy" since Smosh the Movie (2015).
Smosh catching strays lol. That movie does suck, though.
I seriously thought that the Melissa McCarthy character was played by Dawn French damn
I thought so too, at first glance.
America’s collective brain is like a pop tart left in the toaster too long
All of these jokes are flat because they're the base level hackneyed 90s jokes that have been told ad nauseum by now. If you grew up in the 90s or early 2000s watching cartoons, you have seen every last one of these jokes either with better premises or better punchlines elsewhere. Seinfeld is a lost, confused dinosaur who hasn't realized that the comedy world evolved beyond his capabilities three to four generations ago. Every five minutes felt like "wow, I haven't heard that joke in a long time" or "wow, I remember when stuff like this was funny."
My English teacher put this on when she was a substitute for my PE class (Amy Schumer was what put me off of this film tho)
I watched this film a few weeks ago on a sofa day with my wife in the middle of a bad-weathered Sunday. We thought it was a childishly funny, and was enjoyable to turn off your brain and have it on in the background whilst we talked and then periodically browsed our phones.
The problem is that the story of the Pop Tart isn’t actually well known. Rather than have a Family Guy styled parody of the story, it would have been far more interesting to have had a film that leans into the drama and potential comedic moments and intrigue of the real life events with whilst still allowing for some embellishment. A lot of films successfully accomplish this, with varying levels of comedy entwined. such as The Wolf of Wall Street, The Big Short, War Dogs, Ford vs Ferrari, Fighting with my Family, I Tonya, and many more.
At the end of the film, I finished and wondered what I’d watched it for. Was it a particularly funny concept? Maybe, but it was executed far too crazily to have been anything more than a series of conceptual slices of comedic thoughts strung together under the generally vague umbrella of ‘cereal-related’ jokes.
Was it particularly informative? I have absolutely no idea what was a potentially true fact, twisted amongst the sea of regular looking people mixed with cartoonish characters, clear faux historical scenes to obtain the eventual punchline, and random moments that seem to have been made with the intention to straddle the line between truth or fiction, but subsequently played out in such a fashion that it couldn’t possibly have occurred in the way shown.
Clearly, there’s companies called General Mills and Kelloggs, and Pop Tarts are obviously a thing. Some of the staff - presumably the core cast - were real, and the overall “battle of the cereals” on store shelves would have been no less real than what any competing companies experience, but picking out embellished true facts anywhere between the real-life Snap, Crackle and Pop characters, and death battle meetings between companies, who knows?
I’d give it a 4/10, a 5/10 if you experienced it like I did.
Bill Burr is from Boston methinks so he could nail that Mayor Quimby accent.
So, Do you like Jam?
I straight never heard of this movie.
It just came out. This is you hearing about it!
That's 99% of Netflix original movies
NASA did play an indirect part in the creation of Pop tarts. It was their invention of a shelf stable fruit paste that opened the door to a ready-to-eat shelf stable fruit pastry.
It's a film about nothing.
That's the point. His comedy is low brow.
I love the sitcom Seinfeld while not caring for Seinfeld as a comedian. This movie, though, I did enjoy. In many ways it's a throwback to the whacky movies of the 80s. Some of the posters here take issue with this and trash the movie for being dated and behind the times. I don't know, I think it's okay to revisit and pay homage to the past. I was also shocked with the 2/10 score. While the review was generally leaning negative a number of positive points were raised so I was anticipating 4 or 5.... so yeah, the 2 out of 10 seemed a little stingy.
Bill Burr and JFK both have Boston accents.... there mystery solved
Toast ums at dollar tree are WAY BETTER!!! Cookies and creme flavor is amazing!!!
I'll have to seek them out. You've peaked my curiosity.
Forced humor. Flat characters. Didnt laugh once, just painful to watch. 100% agree with your review.
Pop tarts: A foodstuff quite rarely found in the outside world, consequently rendering the project absolutely worthless to a non-domestic audience who, like pretty much anyone under 30, also have no connection to its star, Jerry Seinfeld, whose cultural cachet rose and fell 20 years ago, before much of the potential domestic audience was even born.
Add in the fact its Americana-drenched names and brands offer even less to offer to international audiences - now vastly more into South Korean culture - and the whole thing absolutely screamed *Rich Ageing White Guy's Vanity Project* from the get go.
Jerry Lewis' VP was about a clown and the Holocaust. Jerry Seinfeld's was about pop tarts.
Neither was palatable to audiences, but here's Seinfeld, raging into the void about woke audiences, instead of conceding that the project didn't have any legs, reach or appeal.
Melissa McCarthy is not very funny and almost every project she’s involved with fails
people should only be attempting to make masterpieces. tarantino isnt perfect but i like his 10 films only rule
What is that thing with the chef’s hat? The host of this video. Looks like a shark’s mask. Not sure
You sound like chris o'neill
I wanna know if this was his idea or Netflix cause of the product placement faze of studios making commercials for Air Jordans and whatnot.
Mind you, Air is 30 times better than this crap.
Pros I'll say are the samller roles like Dinklage, Slater, Jon Hamm and John Slattery.
A comedy in 2024 cannot be allowed to be funny in the traditional ways. i.e. not funny at all.
This us the result.
I loved this movie. Maybe you hate cereals...
I thought it was good. Also pretty informative. 🤷♂️
I’d disagree on that second part. The movie is mostly fiction.
@@AnotherNickMovies yeah I know but did you know that there was a cereal pop tart war between post and Kelloggs in battle creek Mich in the 60's?
Actually, it was a funny movie. ‘Critics’ don’t understand it.
Not sure who these “Critics” you’re referring to are. But like I said in the video, comedy is a very subjective thing. So this movie would certainly be funny and enjoyable to some people.
You fools think everything is bad because you need something to talk about. It was actually funny.