The main problem with Jack Frost is that it is a movie that revels in its own stupidity. The movie's script loves to make jokes about the fact that the main character has become, of all things, a snowman. Nobody in the movie thinks. Everyone is an idiot, and the myriad of idiotic comments ("more stupider") just bear that fact out. It's not even entertaining - "Jack Frost" gets extremely tedious and boring soon after the "transformation" takes place (which is supposed to be where the "fun starts", apparently).
What's even worse is that the snowman here, which occupies a disturbingly large chunk of screen time, is not cute, or funny, or loaded with personality. This animatronic monstrosity is actually pretty creepy to look at. The sight of the snowman snowboarding (he is, like all the other 12-year old kids here, are capable of going down the slopes with skill worthy of the Winter Olympics), or playing hockey is enough to make one laugh out loud - but it's not because the situation is funny, or because the dialog is sharp. It's because the entire movie is so ludicrous to look at and watch.
Everything about this movie just reeks of the word "dumb". It has every cliche known to film. In fact, it's strange - this is a movie with a mildly interesting premise, but its execution is so devoid of imagination that it's not even funny. This is even more incredible when you realize that there were no less than FOUR writers working on the script.
For a kid's movie, Jack Frost also has a surprising amount of low-brow jokes, all of which are completely tacky and devoid of taste. It's hard to fathom exactly why the filmmakers decided to leave this stuff in, as it's not even funny. If they were trying to make it appeal to adults with a different layer of humor (like what Chicken Run did so well), they did, in fact, accomplish something completely different - they managed to turn a dumb movie into one that is insulting at times ("they wanted me to laugh at this?).
In short, Jack Frost is a movie that is cliched, boring, unfunny, and just plain ridiculous - suspension of disbelief has no place here in Jack Frost, because words cannot express how dumb this movie ended up turning out.
What's even worse is that the snowman here, which occupies a disturbingly large chunk of screen time, is not cute, or funny, or loaded with personality. This animatronic monstrosity is actually pretty creepy to look at. The sight of the snowman snowboarding (he is, like all the other 12-year old kids here, are capable of going down the slopes with skill worthy of the Winter Olympics), or playing hockey is enough to make one laugh out loud - but it's not because the situation is funny, or because the dialog is sharp. It's because the entire movie is so ludicrous to look at and watch.
Everything about this movie just reeks of the word "dumb". It has every cliche known to film. In fact, it's strange - this is a movie with a mildly interesting premise, but its execution is so devoid of imagination that it's not even funny. This is even more incredible when you realize that there were no less than FOUR writers working on the script.
For a kid's movie, Jack Frost also has a surprising amount of low-brow jokes, all of which are completely tacky and devoid of taste. It's hard to fathom exactly why the filmmakers decided to leave this stuff in, as it's not even funny. If they were trying to make it appeal to adults with a different layer of humor (like what Chicken Run did so well), they did, in fact, accomplish something completely different - they managed to turn a dumb movie into one that is insulting at times ("they wanted me to laugh at this?).
In short, Jack Frost is a movie that is cliched, boring, unfunny, and just plain ridiculous - suspension of disbelief has no place here in Jack Frost, because words cannot express how dumb this movie ended up turning out.