Unfrosted review: Jerry Seinfeld’s Pop-Tart brandopic is yet another unwelcome addition to the genre

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This scattershot approach to the origins of the Kellogg’s breakfast snack relies on cartoonish fantasy and terrible humour

ExpandJerry Seinfeld has had a week. He claimed that movies were no longer “the pinnacle in the social, cultural hierarchy”. He went on to argue that “the extreme left and PC crap” were responsible for an alleged dearth of comedy. Once upon a time, it seems, you expected “some funny stuff we can watch on TV tonight. Well, guess what? Where is it? Where is it?”.

Some shreds of the true story behind the breakfast wars of the early 1960s remain. In one of the laziest pieces of casting imaginable, Hugh Grant turns up as the pompous Shakespearean actor who voiced Tony the Tiger. The fabulously named Thurl Ravenscroft really existed, but the Nebraskan can surely not have been such a spit for Phoenix Buchanan in Paddington 2. Amy Schumer fails to age up as Marjorie Post, the 74-year-old proprietor of Kellogg’s main rivals.

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