The best cameos include Bill Burr as a curt and horny JFK, Dean Norris as Khrushchev, Hugh Grant as a failed Shakespearean actor who now plays Tony the Tiger, and Kyle Dunnigan as a hilarious version of Walter Cronkite with serious marital issues.

Seinfeld’s freshman outing as a director is absolutely over-the-top (but never “madcap”) ridiculousness from beginning to end. Occasionally, the silliness is too much, but ol’ Jerry always manages to go for broke in the quest to get a laugh, and laugh I most certainly did. Not a ton, but just enough, and the picture always kept me grinning.

One of the film’s funniest moments is a funeral where (much to the offense of the widow) the pallbearers are breakfast cereal mascots and the priest is Isaiah Lamb, Mr. Quaker Oats himself. As the casket is lowered into the ground, it is surrounded by cereal. The Fruit Loops mascot Toucan Sam sings “Ave Maria” while other mascots add milk and stir around the casket. Ridiculous, yes, but also quite funny. This is Zucker Brothers wackiness served up with zeal by its cast and creator and the fun is infectious.

As the film turns facts into comedy fiction, the screenplay takes jabs at everything from the Cuban Missile Crisis, NASA’s plans to go to the moon, Russians, milkmen, cereal mascots, Colombian drug lords, ventriloquists, and even the 2021 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol.

One of the film’s main delights is the absence of vulgarity. Today’s comedies have an over reliance on mean-spirited characters spouting every “naughty word” because they think cursing is to be funny. While there is certainly a place for vulgar comedy, that’s all there is today. Seinfeld’s candy colored foray into feature films is a pleasant watch that one could share with the whole family.

To be frank, with a comic mind as witty as Jerry Seinfeld’s, the film should have been less goofy and much sharper. In all transparency, there was the occasional moment when I was close to giving this one a negative review, but the near-constant smile on my face wouldn’t let me.

Unfrosted is pure lunacy and good fun. Jerry Seinfeld wants to make us laugh through 93 minutes of high-camp fun. For the most part, I believe he succeeds.

Unfrosted

Written by Spike Feresten, Barry Marder, Andy Robin, & Jerry Seinfeld

Directed by Jerry Seinfeld

Starring Jerry Seinfeld, Melissa McCarthy, Jim Gaffigan, Amy Schumer

PG-13, 93 Minutes, Netflix Studios, Columbus 81 Productions