Jack Frost 2:
Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
Director: Michael Cooney
Writer: Michael Cooney
Starring: Christopher Allport and Eileen Seeley
Body Count: 14
Review: Now when you pick up this box at your local Blockbuster or whatever, you know you're getting yourself into something. You know that you're going to be seeing a movie about a killer snowman. More importantly, you know you're going to be seeing a sequel to a movie about a killer snowman.
That said, this is the worst sequel with a killer snowman I've ever seen. Granted, the first Jack Frost flick was no award winner, but it had its likable elements. I dug the music, and some of the jokes where so inane that they amused me at three in the morning.
Not this time. The sherrif from the first film and his wife decide to commemorate their second honeymoon, taking a trip to some tropical island. Meanwhile, somebody (we never find out who, or more importantly, why) digs up those containers with Jack Frost inside and begins to experiment on them, and, eventually, he gets out and heads south to extract his revenge.
Okay, let's try to work through this one piece-by-piece. GOOD MOVE: the filmmakers know we're not looking for any real story here, so they don't film it. Things just happen. No rhyme or reason, they just happen. GOOD MOVE: introduce a lot of girls in bikinis. These people know their target audience. BAD MOVE: killing off all the girls in bikinis within the first 20 minutes of the movie!
So maybe these people don't know their stuff after all. The blood is here, but not done very well, the tongue-in-cheek stuff is here, but not very funny. The death scenes all seem ripped straight from some other movie, and in the end, well, their plan to kill Jack is just....lame.
Now I was actually sorta looking forward to this one, not because I expected a good movie, but because I wanted to laugh. Unfortunately, I didn't. This one just sucked. Do yourself a favor: if you absolutely have to see one of these movies, make sure it's not this one.