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Saturday, 24 December 2011

Frosty the Snowman (1969)

Happy Birthday! Pretty standard children’s classic, and a holiday staple. Frosty’s animated by a magical hat, goes on some joyrides, then is promptly executed by dawn’s light. But he’ll be back next Christmas day! This idea could easily be turned into a horror movie. Watch it for the memories, to relive some of that lost childhood, or share it with your kids if you got ‘em. Spawned a sequel some 20 years later entitled Frosty Returns (starring John Goodman) which was mostly awful.

4 corn-cob pipes out of 5

1 comment:

BLACKTR0N said...

There's actually an earlier Frosty fallow up that Rankin/Bass did with Jack Frost as the antagonist and they give Frosty a wife. But just like the John Goodman one the kids aren't the same ones from this 1st installment for some reason.