Dennis Harvey Film CriticMore like a mayonnaise sandwich on Wonder Bread than the at-least-mildly-crunchy breakfast cereal of its title, “Eat Wheaties!” is a movie whose blandness ultimately triumphs over its annoyance — but only by a hair.
This is the kind of underdog comedy in which you soon want to kick the dog.Starring Tony Hale of “Arrested Development” and “Veep” as a middle-aged dweeb whose claim of a past celebrity friendship improbably snowballs to ruin his life, Scott Abramovitch’s aims for the tenor of something like “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” minus the raunch.
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