Frosty Returns I love Christmas movies!!  Watching Christmas movies is one of the best parts of the holiday season.  So far I’ve watched How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street (the original in black & white), A Charlie Brown Christmas, Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, Rudolph, the Red Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman.  All excellent Christmas movies!  I still have It’s A Wonderful Life (in black & white), Elf (I’ve not seen it before, but Google Play gave it to me for free), Christmas with The Kranks and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe to go.

Last night I decided to watch some less popular Christmas movies.  I went on a small binge and watched Cricket on the Hearth, The Little Drummer Boy, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol and Frosty Returns.  (They were all included in the DVD collection of Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus is Coming to Town and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.)  I really enjoyed the Little Drummer Boy and Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol.  I thought Cricket on the Hearth was okay.  My husband liked it more than I.  I don’t have anything good to say about Frosty Returns.

In Frosty Returns, Frosty is back.  But there’s a problem.  Summer Wheeze, a spray can that melts all the snow and slush.  That’s a problem for the Winter Festival that is days away and for Frosty.  If Summer Wheeze stays, there won’t be a Winter or a Frosty. And the townsfolk are in love with Summer Wheeze.  Thankfully, we have Holly and Charlie, two children, to save the day.  Now if only they could have save the movie.

I know, sequels are rarely as good as the first movie.  There are exceptions, but Frosty Returns is not one of them.  To be honest, this may have been one of the worst sequels I have ever seen.  Frosty is still in the movie.  But he doesn’t seem like the same holly, jolly snowman we met in the original Frosty movie.  The children seem much more jaded.  But the worst part?  This movie was not created to celebrate the holiday season.  It was created for one purpose and one purpose only.  To bash you over the head with with it’s environmental message.  Don’t get me wrong.  I am a big believer in taking care of the planet we are living on.  However, that is not what I want in a Christmas movie.  And if you are going to force the message on me in such a blatant manner, at least do it in a well made movie, which Frosty Returns is definitely not.

Avoid this movie.  Even if the blatant message promotion doesn’t bother you, it’s still not a good movie.  You don’t really come to like any of the characters.  Nor is it well drawn.  Even in comparison with other animated features of the same time-period (1992).   Maybe they were trying to give it the same look as the original.  But since it resembles the original in no other way, why bother.

I think by now you realize how much I did not like Frosty Returns.  You only have so much time to watch movies before Christmas.  Do not waste it on Frosty Returns.