Sharkflei Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

mattkratz An aspiring rock musician is severely chided by his girlfriend for being a slacker at his "art." He also manages a local bar that serves nothing but cereal-his idea entirely-and attracts a loyal clientele. When a businessman rips off his idea and opens up a new, larger, and fancier store across the street, an all-out war begins. The girlfriend at first considers joining the original Flakes but then joins the competitor. Things then get rather heated as-well, remember Cheers and Gary's bar? This could be shown in college business classes as how businesses and competitions are run. I thought it was a good movie and had a good cast. It was funny and delightful from start to finish. It was a good way to pass an hour and a half.*** out of ****

lewiskendell Flakes is more dry and boring than any bowl of cereal could ever be. I've enjoyed many a hipster indie movie, but all the quirky characters in the world can't save a movie that's dull and devoid of any entertainment value, whatsoever.I think the movie was attempting an Empire Records-type vibe, where you're introduced to a few off-beat characters, and then grow to care about their lives over the course of the movie. That certainly didn't happen. Every character was annoyingly "different", and the viewer is never given any reasons to grow attached to them. They never become anything more than arbitrarily alternative caricatures. I normally love Zooey Deschanel (she's the reason I watched the movie), but she's just as un-appealing in this as everyone else. This may sound harsh, but Flakes was a complete failure. Don't waste your time with it.

sethroatl Unfortunately, this movie, which to some degree was about staying true to yourself, was shallow and left me wanting. The characters were fairly one-dimensional -- either anti-establishment and cool or pro-business with a pocket protector and glasses. The main characters were fine, but fairly predictable. Christopher Lloyd played his usual role, and the guy from the OC appeared to play Randall Pink Floyd from Dazed and Confused. Ironically, although much of the plot was about not being fake, everything about the movie from the setting to the dialog appeared contrived. I can't say I laughed, cried, smiled or even thought very hard. It didn't even make me want to eat cereal.

toddbrandel Checked out this movie OnDemand last night on a lark - my girlfriend and I read the description and decided to give it a shot. I wish I could get my six bucks back. It was the kind of movie that looked like it was written and directed by a 14-year-old trying really, really hard to be "indie." I was shocked that Zooey Deschanel and Christopher Lloyd allowed themselves to be associated with this awful excuse for a film.The dialog was cliché at best, the acting was miserable, and the entire premise of the movie was ridiculous. How can you eat vintage cereal? I know the stuff is loaded with preservatives, but I'm pretty sure you can't open a box of cereal from the 70s and eat it.After about 45 minutes of watching this trainwreck of a movie, we decided we couldn't take it anymore and turned it off. The only advantage of watching Flakes was that it made the Arrested Development episodes we watched immediately afterward look like the most genius pieces of entertainment ever crafted.