Frosty Returns

I Have Just Seen Frosty Returns. It had a good story line and the normal story line, but there where some think I disliked in the movie. (John Goodman) did a nice job as Frosty. They should of had it in the same town as the first not a different town. It felt two short compared to the first. I still like it. I have been a christmas cartoon fan. It does have one X-Mas Message, A Gift of Friendship. On Two Love and can't give any more detail you have to see this short movie, I hope they might make a better one next.

It's funny. Usually if we love a Christmas special as children, we'll be loyal to it forever. But I suppose there's exceptions to every rule and for me, Frosty Returns is that exception. I loved it to death when I was little-Miss Carbuncle cracked me up ("Where there's snow there's slush, and where there's slush there's ice, and where there's ice there's broken hips, and where there's broken hips there's substitute teachers!!"). She still does, as a matter of fact, but the rest of the show is just bad. Frosty Returns is about-you guessed it-Frosty the Snowman returning. He acts nothing like he did in the original, spouting out things that seem to be jokes and dancing at completely random times. Strangely, it seems he can survive without his hat now. In the town of Beansboro he meets up with Holly DeCarlo. Holly wants to be a magician and she isn't really unlikeable, but her only friend is a token nerd named Charles. About five seconds after she and Frosty meet up, they find out a product called Summer Wheeze is being used by everyone in town. Basically, it's an aerosol spray that melts snow in seconds and creates instant spring. From then on Holly and Charles try to both save Frosty and stop Summer Wheeze. You won't find any mention of Christmas here. Winter is the thing being saved. The word that annoys me is SAVED. The way Holly and Frosty talk about Summer Wheeze, you'd think it was bottled AIDs designed to wipe out dangerous minorities. And it's maker, Mr. Twichell, is the made out to be the epitome of evil-from the horrible way he's drawn to his cat. He keeps babbling on about how he wants a crown, because everyone loves Summer Wheeze. Forget the millions he's sure to make-give the man a crown. I've always tried to be Earth friendly and I'm sure Summer Wheeze is a very bad thing. But I admit if a product like it existed, I'd buy thirty cans. The area I live in gets around 144 inches of snow a year, and it lasts into late March. It's like clockwork-I love December, tolerate January, get annoyed in Feburary, disgusted in March, and by the time Spring comes around like an angel of salvation, I'm ready to put a bullet in my head. What Frosty Returns does is lecture for thirty minutes about how winter isn't bad-we NEED winter, it's fun, pretty, magical! We won't let old Stinkypants Mr. Twichell take it away! Uh, Holly, Frosty, sweeties...YOU DON'T HAVE TO DRIVE IN THE (expletive) STUFF!!! SHUT UP! AND STOP SINGING! Aside from all that, Frosty Returns still is annoying. The animation looks a lot like Charlie Brown except bright and irritating. Even Holly and Charles show shades of Peppermint Pattie and Marcie in that a) Holly treats Charles like dirt, b) Charles looks exactly like Marcie with brown hair and empty, white eyes, and c) There's a very good chance the two are going to grow up and get married. Now that's something to think about while you're watching.

I absolutely love this movie. I first saw it when I was four years old and I have watched it nearly every year, I love the music and the writing is good. Even if it's not in line with the original Frosty, it's still good. My parents have Frosty on VHS, but not Frosty Returns, and I always wished they had it. Last Christmas I got the three pack of Frosty, Frosty Returns, and the Legend of Frosty, and I was ecstatic. I'm in college now (2007) and I still watch it and spend a lot of time watching Christmas movies. And also, even though it's not technically a Christmas movie, because it doesn't deal with Christmas, it's a winter movie, i guess, it's still really good and I love it.

Frosty has returned to indoctrinate your children. Deplorable propaganda that has an in-name-only Frosty the Snowman fighting a polluting businessman. Ugh. Just so much ugh. This has nothing to do with Christmas. Instead we have Winter Carnival. One of the kids says "Let's go outside and make a fertility goddess." What. The. Hell. Frosty's not even allowed to have a pipe, no doubt due to the drastic increase in pipe-smoking children after the original Frosty aired. The songs are absolutely terrible! I hope no one was paid for them. The animation is sloppy and unattractive. This is an agenda-driven cartoon made by screwed-up people who hate Christmas. Sadly, even after 22 years, CBS continues to air this monstrosity after the genuine classic 1969 cartoon.

i really have no idea why people are bashing this movie. it's actually very cute, but at the same time, short enough to watch it when you have to go somewhere fast. Granted i liked "legend of frosty the snowman" better, but this still was a fun little episode length movie. I actually enjoy it more than the Rankin Bass ones. I don't know why, but i've never really been a big fan of Rankin style. Not that it's bad, but it isn't one of my favorites. As for Frosty returns, it's actually a pretty original story idea. It takes Frosty and brings him into a newer era, and gives him new friends and a new environment. and, it even has a subtle environmental message. If i had to complain about one thing about this movie, it would be the pacing. since they had to shove everything into a 23 minute movie, some of the more subtle scenes were lost. I think it was a bit odd how when the snowman started to talk the girl just kind of went "oh, hey" as opposed to any real sign of shock. Other than that though, it was very cute and i'd watch it again very soon. Frosty returns can always return to my DVD player, with 8 cans of winter wheeze, out of 10.

"Frosty Returns" traffics on the good name of the original, but it bears no resemblance aside from the name of the snowman we all love so dearly. Yes, Frosty's back, but instead of childlike wonder at being "born," he's got cheap jokes and attitude. The script appears to have been written by committee--there's no charm in it, no sincerity, and the story takes a backseat to the message that snow, kids, isn't all fun and games: it serves a valuable ecological role. The songs are utterly tuneless and sung soullessly. It's packaged with the original on DVD (which is why I saw it), but it shouldn't be. Knowing what I know now, I would have paid a little more NOT to have it included.