Comedy legend Jerry Seinfeld and cast discuss the making of the new film 'Unfrosted,' which chronicles an altered history of the Pop Tart. 'Unfrosted' begins streaming on Netflix Friday.

First he made a show about nothing. Now he's directing a movie about Pop-Tarts. How Jerry Seinfeld's nostalgic leanings led to Netflix's "Unfrosted."

The film stars Jerry Seinfeld as Bob Cabana, Jim Gaffigan as Edsel Kellogg III, Melissa McCarthy as Donna Stankowski, Amy Schumer as Marjorie Post and Max Greenfield as Rick Ludwin. Netflix's Unfrosted is the culmination of Seinfeld's longtime obsession with the foil-wrapped breakfast snack.

Jerry Seinfeld waited this long for his directing debut, which makes the choice of “Unfrosted,” a silly lark of a comedy, somewhat perplexing.

While broadly based in reality, the entire movie is a put-on, a wackazoid tall tale, a comedy that uses the breakfast wars as the spin-off point for a high-camp exercise in nostalgic lunacy.

The history of how the all-American breakfast snack was created is served up with lashings of goofiness in this comedy caper