Review of Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

The film begins as the surviving Sheriff from the original, Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport) is talking with his psychiatrist Dr. Morton (Ian Abercrombie as Ian Ambercrombie) and being laughed at for his ridiculous sounding stories about Jack Frost (voiced by Scott MacDonald and the man in the suit is Matt Falletta as Matthew Falletta) the mutant killer snowman. Together they decide Sam should take a holiday where there is no possibility of it snowing. Meanwhile the anti-freeze that contains Jack Frost has been dug up and in a laboratory accident he is resurrected, stronger and meaner than before! It's 'Snowmonton International Airport' where Sam and his wife Anne (Eileen Seeley) are flying off on a second honeymoon to a tropical island, and are staying at the 'Tropicana Hotel'. Sam will also be acting as best man for his friend Joe (Chip Heller) and his fiancé Marla (Marsha Clark) who plan on getting married on the island. The hotel is run by a Colonel Hickering (Ray Cooney) and a black guy named Bobby (Tai Bennett). The hotel also has possibly the most annoying person in history working there named 'Captain Fun' (Sean Patrick Murphy) whose appearance in this film is anything but fun. Jack Frost melts himself and travels through the sea as water to get to the island. First of all Jack kills three rather fine looking young ladies, Rose (Jennifer Lyons), Ashlea (Shonda Far) and Paisley (Granger Green). Then he kills a gay photographer named Greg (Paul H.Kim as Paul Hansen Kim) and his attractive model Sarah (Melanie Good). Colonel Hickering calls in the head of island security, Agent Manners (David Allen Brooks, complete with eye-patch!) to investigate. Together they discover the satellite cables have been damaged and they cannot contact the police, or indeed anyone else until the supply ship arrives in the morning. Isolated from the outside world Jack Frost sets about gaining revenge on Sam, and god help anyone who tries to stop him! Written and directed by Micheal Cooney I simply could not believe what I was watching unfold before my very eyes! It's awful in every single way you could possibly imagine, and that's the sole reason to keep watching it. I felt a perverse fascination just to see how much more awful it could possibly get. At least the script moves along like a rocket. It's never dull or boring. More or less every supposed joke in this film misses by the proverbial mile. One victim is crushed when Jack turns into a anvil and falls on them out of a tree. Or maybe when a woman goes swimming in the hotel pool topless, Jack comments that "I wouldn't mind a bit of breast stroke myself!". Those are two of the more subtle jokes, too. The film is absolutely stuffed with terrible puns and very unfunny childish visual gags. At times it feels like this was written by a five year old. Effects are predictably terrible, but jack himself when he's actually shown isn't too bad looking and quite funny. It's more the CGI effects which are of children's T.V. standard, as is the whole film come to think of it. The sets look like cardboard and it appears to be shot on a digital camcorder, it certainly wasn't shot on film and that also gives the film a really cheap T.V. look about it. The version I watched had no gore in it whatsoever and just one scene with nudity. The acting is stupidly over-the-top and I want to kill Captain Fun, now. One thing I will say for Mr. Cooney and his eye for casting though is that he knows a fine looking woman when he sees one and there are some serious babes in this. This film is awful and not many would dispute that, but having said that I couldn't take my eyes of it. It's like slowing down to have a look at a car crash, I just wanted to keep going and see just how bad it got. And believe me, it got bad. Proceed with extreme caution! You have been warned.