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Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut Unfrosted, a feature-length comedy telling the story of the birth of the Pop Tart, has been eaten for breakfast by critics.

The film, which also stars Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Hugh Grant, Amy Schumer, Max Greenfield, Christian Slater and Bill Burr, was released on Netflix today (3 May).

It has been savaged by critics including Barry Hertz of The Daily Globe and Mail, who called the film “a distressingly laugh-free affair” and likened it to a “long-lost Lorne Michaels-produced SNL feature from the ’90s” with “jokes so hacky that Kenny Bania wouldn’t touch ’em, and the pacing so slow it rivals Elaine’s experience enduring The English Patient.”

Richard Roeper of The Chicago Sun-Times was similarly damning, going so far as to call Unfrosted“one of the decade’s …

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