Jack Frost

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Watching this movie for the first time in years and it still makes me tear up! For a Christmas comedy film, it handles the subject of loss very well. It shows how hard it can be to move on especially in the circumstances but then allows the second chance for Jack to be a father and Charlie to spend an extra bit of time with his dad and get a chance to say goodbye. This movie has some good music which sticks with you after it has ended especially Landslide by Fleetwood Mac always makes me think of Charlie out in building the snowman. I looked this movie up as I watched it and was so surprised of the low score it had received across the internet! Think that it deserves higher and would recommend this movie to anyone looking for a good, heartwarming Christmas movie for all the family.

I love this film so much i love how the dad cares for the i when i watch this film i always want a dad they like but i hate crying i cry everytime lol but it's funny film too like how the dad comes back as a snow man plus i watch it every Christmas time

OK, this is the Keaton comedy-fantasy about a musician dad who gets killed in an automobile crash (that damn snow!) and comes back a year later (at Christmas time, don't you know) inside the snowman just built by his son in front of the house. Ugh, someone must have eaten the wrong mushrooms big time to concoct this vaguely surrealistic, creepy version of a family flic. Snowman-dad saves his kid from a snowball fight (a truly weird flipped-out sequence) and then teaches him the finer points of ice hockey, including the "J" shot. Huh? A silly, dopey film, almost made pointless except for Preston's nice turn as the mom. She is very attractive and can actually act the part. But she sure can't save this mess. WARNING: watching this may make you forever wish to avoid contact with snow.

a family film. not great ambitions, maybe absurd in many parts but nice. nice for its generous message. and for the manner to use the second chance theme. far to be memorable, it is a title and it is not really important if you hate it or enjoy it. a film about family and values. nothing new and almost fake - the lead character seems not really inspired - but so absurd than becomes touching. a film about a child and his father. and about a meeting who saves the errors of past. that is all. and, after you criticizes it, you discover than it is the best formula. not for Chistmas period but for the days when you needs a romantic movie without he and she and love stories in different nuances but only a demonstration about what is real important to be free by the past chain.

Michael Keaton owed money to someone or they had some heavy dirt on him for him to have had to make this garbage( I will not call it a movie or film). I watched it even though the premise sounded stupid and it proved to be just that STUPID!! Michael Keaton plays a father that dies and comes back as a snowman yes I know that was my warning but I watched anyway cause I'm a Keaton fan. Even he couldn't save this travesty of a so called movie. It's bad in every way, bad story, bad soundtrack, bad plot, a sad Christmas movie, predictable depressing ending. DO NOT WATCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This movie is awful family trash, but it makes for an interesting double bill with the campy 1997 horror film of the same title. Both movies are about Colorado residents named Jack Frost who are killed in auto accidents and then turned into walking, talking snowmen. One, though, is a doting dad while the other is a mass murderer. Someone has to edit these two pictures together into one steaming, gelatinous whole...

This is one of those films that is always one every Christmas, but that doesn't mean it's any good. Michael Keaton does well in his roles, and it features a strong performance from Joseph Cross as the son, but this is a rather daft film, with some odd messages. We have to suspend our disbelief at several points, and forget that the experience of finding your father is now a snowman is heart-warming rather than traumatising. If you're really in the festive mood you may enjoy it, but I can't say it's a Christmas film I'd be keen to see again.

For me (being 14 yo), the worst part of the movie was the fact that I was alone in the theatre with a bunch of little kids. I liked the movie, with some exceptions. It wasn't as bad as the critics say. The only part I didn't like was the part where the dad dies...it sorta seems to go on for a while (its a part that stands out to me as being long, 6 months after I saw it). But comon...ITS NOT AS BAD AS PEOPLE SAY IT IS.

It's kinda cheesy but deserves a way better rating than 5.3, Keaton and Preston are great