Pretty Good

How sad is this?

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

This frost-bitten sequel to 1997's surprisingly clever and enjoyable "Jack Frost" finds the titular killer snowman (voiced by Scott MacDonald) traversing to a tropical resort to harass shell-shocked Sheriff Tiler (Christopher Allport, looking like he'd rather have a recurring role on "7th Heaven" than do this again) and company once more. "Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman" is every bit as ridiculous as you'd expect, but is also even cheaper and dopier than you may be anticipating.Opening with a title in the coolest of cool Windows '98 fonts, 'Chiller,' the chintzy look and feel of the film is established almost immediately, as if to warn you to turn it off before it's too late. Likewise, the cinematography is virtually non existent. "Jack Frost 2" has all the production value of a turn-of-the-century Comedy Central sitcom, but with hardly a fraction of the wit. Michael Cooney returns to the director's chair for this direct-to-video cheapie and although he tries to bring the same humor and energy from the first, it just doesn't translate. Just like snow can't hold up in a warm environment, neither can the original's charms redeem this sorry affair. Jack will try to make you smile time and time again, but his water-logged puns aren't enough to break the ice.On the upside, the fast and loose feel of the production means that no one is taking this terribly seriously, and neither should you. Midway through the film, Jack sprouts a few dozen snowball offspring who wreak havoc on the resort, "Gremlins" style. These slightly entertaining bits, culminating in the film's deus ex banana (see it to believe it), offer moments of semi-inspired silliness, but by then, most of its cool has melted away. Take this one with a grain of rock salt.

Jaaaack Frost, the snowman! Was a murderer they say He was made of snow...... (actually genetically-altered water molecules) But Sheriff Tiler knows That anti-freeze will save the day!If you watch this film for what it really is, you'll appreciate the silliness. This ain't Tarantino, folks! And it's not supposed to be! It's Cooney, baby!!These are the best things about Jack Frost II 1) The airport is clearly a restaurant. Or high school. Whatever, it's not a f#cking airport. 2) Before Jack arrives, the actors on the 'tropical' island are clearly freezing and you can see their breath 3) Sheriff and Mrs. Tiler love their child so much that they abandon him at Christmas to go on vacation - good job, losers! 4) When Jack pulls Tiler's sheets up in his bed, he leaves a non-snowy piece behind. Plot flaw! Plot flaw! Plot flaw! 5) The Colonel. Favorite characters: 1) The nameless, out-of-place cast-away who dies first 2) The 'cowa-tongue-a' bro - Is it Dean or Ben? Whatever, the point is they're both Shakespearean-quality actors. 3) Agent Manners' super-soaker

Completely braindead, terribly-conceived sequel to a film which was surprisingly amusing. The killer glob of snow is resurrected by hot coffee (seriously) and goes to tropical island, where cop from the first film is on holiday with his wife on the (as usual) one-year anniversary of the events from the first film. The deaths in the first film were amusingly silly, but here people are dispatched in some of the most idiotic ways imaginable. Top-billed Jennifer Lyons has just a cameo, with only a few brief scenes before being killed (by salad tongs!) 20 minutes into the film. Manners is back, with only an eyepatch to show for having his face gnawed off by the killer snowglob in the first film. *groans* Such a funny first film, such a waste of a second.

Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman was the first of the two that I rented when I was around nine at a local video store. When I saw it back then, I fell in love with it and couldn't stop thinking about it. Seeing it years later, I say it's not the memories I have of it being very good, but it's the nostalgic memories I have that will stay with me.This is grade A, B movie horror at its finest. It has a goofy killer, still speaking heavily in puns and humor-orientated dialog, and it has likable characters. Had likable characters. While many characters reprise their respected role, they are portrayed as a more stressed out, scared version of the ones they played in the original film. I loved Sam's laidback sense of direction, but this movie turns him into a chicken and a coward afraid of his own shadow. Especially during the last half hour.The plot isn't tweaked too much, the same snowman with the same goofy lines is terrorizing the same group of people, only this time not in Snowmonton, in the Tropics. Sam (Allport), his wife, and their friends get out of the town to breath different air this time around for Christmas. Until Jack shows up revenge hungry and stopping at nothing.Jack has also brought an army of cute, but lethal, snowballs that come equipped with a retractable icicle on top of their head. It leads to some pretty humorous antics. My favorite when the group is trying to kill the snowballs and they flatten him in a wafflemaker just for it to come back to life, with burnt spots on his body and say "hmmm, toasty!" There is a bad use of computer animation in the film. We get more scenes of the snowman, and more scenes of him that are lively instead of the annoying zoom in/zoom out focus in the original film. Some scenes in this had some of the worst CGI out. The two scenes plagued by this are the scenes when Jack jumps in the ground having terrible splash effects come back up, and the others are when the snowballs rebuild themselves. The snowball CGI I can understand, but the snowman jumping into the ground I can't understand.Jack's overall appearance has improved greatly from the last film. Maybe it's my mind playing tricks, but it looks like the crew cleaned him up from his last adventure. Though he looks very good, I can't understand why both DVD covers have to lie to us. On the cover of the first movie, it shows Jack with smaller, straighter head, green eyes, and razor sharp teeth. His appearance greatly differs from his film look, and the razor sharp teeth are reduced greatly in size.On the second DVD cover, the snowman looks more like himself, but the green eyes and teeth are still in place. And now the snowball suddenly has teeth twice the size of himself? It's like on all the Tremors DVD covers, they have the worms with teeth the size of humans when the worms have tentacles. Why? Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman has certain appeal. It has returning cast members so the sequel doesn't feel isolated, it has some very amusing characters (like the Jamacain on the island), and the one of horror's creepiest looking villains returns. It's all good fun...for a while till logic kicks in.Starring: Christopher Allport, Scott MacDonald, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Marsha Clark, Ray Cooney, David Allen Brooks, and Sean Patrick Murphy. Directed by: Michael Cooney.