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Frosty Returns [VHS]

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2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(18)

 

 

I was disappointed when I saw how it had nothing to do with the lovable Original classic. I thought maybe its my maturity setting in - but my 3 and 2 year old basically gave this a bad review - they walked off after a few minutes into the story - too uninterested. I think the target audience is wrong in this one. The makers are trying way too hard to incorporate political issues at a time when all kids just want to see kid stuff!

I wish I had never seen this. I didn't realize it wasn't a follow up to the original Frosty. It's a shame it was done by the same person who gave us the charming Peanuts classics.

Narration is OK but the story is weak and the songs are brilliantly unremarkable. I cringed when I watched this with my son. I admit I grew up with the original show with Jimmy Durante narrating and the title song a well written classic, rather than a lame paean to 1990's PC themes. This is probably inevitable in that you unfortunately can't re-make something from that era with the same innocence and feel: not in an era where Christmas has become lifeless. Oops! I said Christmas, I meant Happy Holidays!

Okay. Sat down to watch this for the first time with my son figuring that it would be good ole' Frosty with a new storyline. Wrong. We got about 5 minutes into it and I realized that someone had hi-jacked a kids character and storyline and replaced it with greeny, pagan propaganda. First, one of the little boys says "Let's go outside and make a fertility goddess". I'm like.....what the.....what the ....what is this doing in a kids Christmas time animated classic? Then the fact that Frosty doesn't need his magic hat anymore. Then the obvious corporate knocking message about a snow eliminating spray. That was it. Turned it off and instead put in the original Rankin-Bass classic. This one is going to get hung in the window as a sun catcher, that is all it is good for.

I agree that Frosty Returns is definitely not as good as Frosty the Snowman and when I first watched it on TV I was disappointed with it but I have since seen it again and though I still think it's not as good as Frosty the Snoman I actually thought it was dood and I think John Goodman, Jonathan Winters and every other actor who provided their voices were good and I'm glad I watched this cartoon again and gave it a second chance. I originally wrote a 1 star review trashing this and when I rewatched it I realized that it wasn't as bad as I originally thought and that I was too harsh in my review and I have changed my opinion about Frosty Returns!

I think the biggest issue I have with this holiday perennial, is that it was obvious that the writers were trying to put together a script that appealed to kids on one level, and adults on another, not unlike Willy Wonka. While this is certainly admirable to shoot for, it's very difficult to pull off and when it misses it can be quite painful to watch. This was no exception; it not only missed, but missed badly; consequently, much of this is completely unwatchable.

Additionally, the animation is poor. One of the producers is Bill Melendez, famous for his work on the Peanuts cartoons. Not coincidentally, the animation and the characters at times look like something out of a Peanuts cartoons. Unfortunately, it captured none of the charm of even the least inspiring of the Peanuts cartoons.

Not least of all, the music was tuneless and uninspiring. It wasn't hummable, it wasn't memorable, it was just embarrassing.

Why this continues to be shown every year opposite the original Frosty - in my mind one of the three best Christmas specials of all time - escapes me. If it were my call, I'd just run the original Frosty, twice. In the meantime, on this I'll pass.

Frosty the Snowman was awesome but Frosty Returns is a shameful mess! All the characters are bratty, sarcastic and disrespectful, the children, Frosty but especially the adults, What kind of message does that give to children? That it's ok to be bratty and disrespectful?

I hated this special. Frosty is completely sarcastic and obnoxious, nothing like the friendly folksy Frosty we all grew to love. Even sadder is that CBS keeps airing this back-to-back with the original Frosty. There are so many other great Christmas specials which aren't aired on the major networks (Little Drummer Boy, George C. Scott's A Christmas Carol) because of cable and VCRs. So it's all the more sad that this one receives yearly attention by a major network. Couldn't they at least air the true sequel - Frosty's Winter Wonderland? ABC used to run that one, so I don't know who owns the rights nowadays. But either way, that would make much sense for a second half hour of Frosty rather than this dreadful piece of unwatchable junk.

I loved the Frosty movies I used to watch when I was a child - Frosty the Snowman and Frosty's Winter Wonderland. This movie was a real disappointment. The plot was ridiculous and the music was awful!

From the stupid plot to the terrible music this dvd is absolutely dreadful. It gives ammo to every conservative that wishes to criticize liberals for being out of touch and godless. Goddess of Fertility? Really?