Jack Frost
He's The World's Coolest Dad And He's Gonna Prove It.
Michael Keaton stars as a rock-'n'-roll father who gets a last chance to fine-tune his life - and prove ice guys finish first - in this merry family fable frosted with a blizzard of special effects!
On the verge of making it big, long-struggling musician Jack Frost realizes he's missing something vital: time with his wife and young son Charlie. But before Jack can make up for lost time, he swerves off an icy mountain road. Then, one cold winter's night, Jack magically returns...as a snowman! He embarks on a riotous, snowball-chucking, snowboard-cruising quest to show Charlie that when it comes to being totally cool, there's no dad... like a snowdad!
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Frosty Comedy - eoguy
It's war out there. The seventh graders control the prized high ground and are raining snowballs down on their younger classmates. Brave
11-year-old Charlie Frost (Joseph Cross) is leading an insurrection from the field of battle below. With an audacious strategy, he goes mano a mano with the biggest bully in the class and wins.
After this promising opening, director Troy Miller's JACK FROST proceeds to go nowhere. Most of the time it wants to be a poignant story of a boy and his reincarnated father. Sometimes it thinks its mission is as a slapstick comedy. The weak script by Mark Steven Johnson and Steven Bloom succeeds at neither. Although its hero, a snowman, cries, the audience is unlikely to shed any tears, and the comedy provides no more than a few modest laughs. A project with a good idea but nothing more, the movie needs a complete rewrite.
During the long and dull first half-hour, we are introduced to the characters. A completely wasted Michael Keaton plays Charlie's dad,
Jack Frost. Jack's desire to be a famous musician makes him into an absentee father. He's the type who will promise to be at his son's important hockey game but will forget as soon as he gets involved with his work. Kelly Preston plays Charlie's mom, Gabby.
When Jack dies, you may feel like applauding silently in hope that his transformation into three frozen balls will finally get the movie going. You will be wrong. Keaton, who is a great comedian, gets lines so lame that even he can't do much with them. The writers think the word "butt" is funny so they proceed to go for the world record for the maximum uses
in a single movie. Suffice it to say that few of the uses are humorous.
After cutting to a year later, Jack does come back as a snowman. With two branches for arms and what looks like a Halloween costume of a
snowman for the torso, he comes alive. Between the scenes that attempt to manipulate our emotions, the movie bec
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Frosty Comedy - eoguy
It's war out there. The seventh graders control the prized high ground and are raining snowballs down on their younger classmates. Brave
11-year-old Charlie Frost (Joseph Cross) is leading an insurrection from the field of battle below. With an audacious ...