Honestly the nerve of Jerry Seinfeld to spend a press tour complaining about how comedy’s lost its edge only to be promoting this, the most milquetoast, characterless comedy I’ve seen in recent times.
It’s a shame because it is a good premise, I suppose, in maybe a slightly more high level way. The general conceit of treating something sublimely stupid as something earthshakingly important is always a delight, and it’s what he’s trying for here. It’s just a shame it’s let down by everything within it.
I mean my god in the year of our lord 2024 there’s a parody of Bill O’Reilly’s meltdown/“we’ll do it live”. Jerry! Come on! I know you can do better.
That being said, the scene with Don Draper and Roger Sterling in it was… ok, sure, you know what fine. I actually do kinda admire that.
I don’t think they were intentionally parodying the trend of end credit songs that are entirely divorced from the film but are only there to get an otherwise unworthy film an Oscar nomination (usually by Dianne Warren); I think they just made an end credit song that was entirely divorced from the film itself but was only there to get an otherwise unworthy film an Oscar nomination.