2024    Netflix

Rated:  PG-13

Length:  1 hr  33min

History ~ Comedy

Directed By:  Jerry Seinfeld

Starring:  Jerry Seinfeld, Christian Slater, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Melissa McCarthy, and too many more to list.

“One day, Grandma Kellogg while making pies for her family, found she had some extra crust and filling. So, she put them together into little tarts. They were so popular she called it……..THE POP TART!”

Jerry Seinfeld wrote, directed and stars as Bob Cabana, a Kellogg Cereal executive (Totally fictional character) in Battle Creek Michigan circa 1963. It is based on the true life competition between Post and Kellogg to be the first to produce a breakfast pastry.

And that’s where this movie leaves the story and heads straight into an hour and a half of every 60’s product, theme, song, personality and event pathetically and shamelessly parodied unsuccessfully(In my humble opinion).

The movie starts with a bandana, woody woodpecker comic book, bazooka bubble gum, a rubber ball, a GI Joe, a slinky, a whoopee cushion and a box of pop tarts. Then follows Alpha Bits, Tony the Tiger, Froot loops, Snap, Crackle and Pop, Oscar Myer wieners, Fruity Pebbles, Quaker Oats, Frosted Flakes, Cream of Wheat, Poppin fresh dough, Walter Cronkite, A Whee-lo, The moon landing, Wooly-Bully, Tang, a microwave oven, Swanson TV Dinner, Corvettes, Edsel, Grape Nuts, Apple Jacks, Carvel, Schwinn, Chef Boy-R-Dee, Jack Lalanne, the milkman, IBM, Archie Comic books, Sea Monkeys, Ding Dongs, Keebler Fudge Stripes, Raisin Bran, Snagglepuss, Corn Flakes, Spaghettios, Rice Krispies Treats, Mad magazine, Sauna pants, Stingray bikes, The Twist, Tab, and on and on. That was just the first 30 minutes…..

So here’s my running commentary as I watched the film:

“What?………ok………really?……..seriously?………sugar mafia kingpins?……….Milk mafia?………….you’ve got to be joking………….this is supposed to be funny?…………..No way……….a ravioli filled with sea monkeys comes to life and jumps out of an aquarium to escape??……….WTF…………….You can’t be serious…………….OH MY GOD!….. did they really just parody the Jan.6 Capitol Riots with all the cereal mascots complete with a Viking hat with horns guy in a Tony the tiger striped outfit????????……..Oh that’s it, this is just too much!”

But I watched all of it for the sake of an unbiased review.

Unfortunately that’s not gonna happen.

I’m completely biased. Never again.

Don’t waste your time unless you really have nothing better to do and nothing else to watch.

NOT recommended.

Two thumbs down!