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Jack Frost (1997)

Posted by: John, Dustin, and Tyler
Date Submitted: Thursday, September 2, 1999 at 22:18:34
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 at 06:49:22

If I were asked to describe Jack Frost in one word, I couldn't, because it sucks so bad. The writers are truly some of the galactically stupid. You'd think in a town called Snowmonton there'd be snow. When there's snow, or "coconut shavings," in the air, you'd figure they'd find their way to the ground, but alas, there is no snow to be seen.

The conception of Jack as a snowman is so ridiculous and far-fetched that a 3rd grader would find it laughable. HA!

Maybe child labor wasn't taken into account when the director hired school children to write the script.

It boggles the mind to see not only a snowman made of "snow" talk, drive a car, shoot icicles, but also crease when it moves.

Why is it that every cop in town has the impressive title of sheriff? I think the prop people went to K-Mart to get this stuff. The government has gone to shambles when they send Agent Manners to help the situation, with his impressive kung-fu arsenal, including the classic slow roundhouse punch, various witty remarks, strange facial hair, and stolen props from "Ghostbusters."

Oh, by the way, who is that strange character who appears in the background several times carrying useless items and dressed up like Billy Bob Thornton from "Sling Blade"?

Kudos to the guys who did the casting. Let's take a look at it one by one:

Jack Frost (human): Well, he tries to be scary but comes off as more of a disgruntled blue collar worker, with his ability to identify filtered cigarettes by the smell.

Main Sheriff: Sadly, he does the best acting in this movie, with no glaring discrepencies. I marvel at how he doesn't scold his child for attempting to feed him anti-freeze. Maintains the one room police station quite well

Sheriff's kid: I think there's too much chlorine is this kid's gene pool. Whether he's baking strange snow cookies or building a snowman with the help of an oven mit, he's comes off incredibly stupid and rat-like in appearance. Some day he'll make one heck of a carnie.

Neighborhood bullies: You know what's fun? Sledding on flat ground. They seem to think so too. The only cool thing about these street toughs is that they taunt little rat boy, but they somehow manage to do a sorry job of that as well, despite the obvious fact that he shares his face with a common rodent.

Agent Stone: Who tells like it is? Agent Stone, that's who. He's got the no nonsense attitude that his co-workers have come to know and respect. He can get the chemical readings from water using a Christmas light.

Agent Manners: See above.

Shopkeeper: "20% off, discount for an emergency." Are these the words of a crafty salesman? I think not, yet these are the only catch-phrases he sputters throughout the whole movie. His door-to-door salt selling is another great creation of this "insane genius" of salemanship.

Well, I don't want to ruin it all. I encourage everyone to see this movie as soon as possible, for you will not regret it. It is truly a classic.


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