Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) Review

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Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) Review

You may remember back in October I reviewed a Christmas cult horror flick called Jack Frost, and I compared it to films so bad they’re good, such as The Room and Zaat. The sequel, Jack Frost 2, is the most inexplicable and ridiculous Christmas films of all time.

The family from the first film goes away to a tropical island for a vacation a year after Jack Frost, the murderer turned snowman thanks to some genetic alterations, attacked the town of Snowmonton and went on a killing spree. The Christmas season is in full swing on the island, but soon mysterious deaths start occurring, and everyone realizes Jack Frost is back with a vengeance. He turns the thermostat down on the island, killing people not just by firing icicles at them this time, but also by throwing snowballs at deadly speeds, turning into an ice block shaped like an anvil, and using his carrot nose like a knife. Once they find out anti-freeze won’t defeat him this time, he spits up a snowball that hatches into a baby Jack Frost snowman. Soon there are hundreds of these things running around, and the survivors must fight back against the impending threats and escape the island alive.

I thought the first Jack Frost was preposterous but fun, but Jack Frost 2 is somehow, some way, even more ludicrous! The bar was set extremely low with the first—so low even Hermes from Futurama couldn’t limbo under it—but this one accomplishes the impossible: it’s  EVEN WORSE! To be fair, it actually does improve in a few ways. There’s more blood this time when people get killed, the kills are pretty creative, and Jack Frost utters some more great one liners. Where it fails hardest is in the special effects. Was Jack Frost realistic to begin with? No, and he stays pretty consistent from the previous movie. There are a few scenes with a little animation, and they look atrocious. All the tiny Jack Frost offspring look like plush toys (as I’m sure they were in real life) and are mostly stationary. Whereas before no one took things too seriously, this time the characters/actors take things even less seriously. Nothing is scary, just like before, but before, it was funny. This time, the filmmakers tried so hard to be funny, that most of the time the jokes, gags, and purposefully corny dialogue miss the mark and is more annoying or pathetic than laugh out loud funny.

Jack Frost 2 is probably the worst Christmas film I’ve ever seen. To review it feels like a pointless exercise. It’s essentially just more of the same from the first Jack Frost. At times, it does manage to reach so bad it’s good status, but generally, it’s just a cluster of silliness. I wouldn’t recommend checking it out unless you really enjoyed the antics from the first one.