Jack Frost: Nightmares about Snowmen

Jack Frost may be the pinnacle of Hollywood family garbage. It's a film that is sure to give children who don't understand complicated but false metaphysical concepts like "reincarnation through ice crystals and carrots" nightmares for months. The story features a boy who loses his father in a tragic automotive accident but is able to come to terms with his loss by communicating through a physical representation of his dead ghost dad, through a snowman. Don't be fooled by the seemingly tender and heart warming description of what happens in this film. Jack Frost is nearly devoid of any true emotional substance and resembles it's horror movie counterparts far too close for comfort.

Hollywood's obsession with reincarnating the fathers of young children is nothing new. It's a lazy device used by writers who don't know how to deal with the emotional struggle of children who lose people they love. Instead of letting the child deal with grief in natural ways, they contrive a device meant to give the child a gradual pull away from their parent in a way that would never happen in reality. Fantasy isn't something I normally frown at in children's movies, but the application of fantasy in Jack Frost attempts to drill for depth in extremely shallow places. On the icy reflective surface of Jack Frost lies a deep film about loss and death, but the resulting motion picture is nothing more than tedious pablum that brings tears, not to children and their parents, but from the joy of studio execs who managed to wring money out of honest families looking for decent entertainment.