Your favorite mutant killer snowman is back. After being offed by antifreeze, evil scientists (are there any positive scientists nowadays?) dug his liquid remains and accidentally brought him back to life. If you thing you can apprehend a movie about a killer snowman on a tropical island carry on reading.
I wasn't a fan of the first Jack Frost movie because of a lot of things that could, without any problems, occupy 10 pages of text. While the idea was absolutely hilarious, I wasn't at all satisfied with the execution accompanied by rather poor effects. There were some fun moments every now and then, but besides the obscure movie topic and a sexual intercourse between Shannon Elizabeth's character and a snowman, the movie was plain dull.
The Christmas is over, I am overstuffed with food and the best thing to carry on the holiday experience is too watch something seasonal. As I already watched almost every X-mas or New Year related horror movie, sequel to Jack Frost was topping the potential viewing materials. I chose it, took a bowl of homemade cookies and started watching it.
Strangely, the movie didn't end up as a horrible disappointment I expected it to be. The story went even beyond the first part and this time Jack Frost manages to take revenge against his assailants (cop and a government agent) on a tropical island full of bikini wearing chicks. So let's think about this once again - bikini chicks + mutant killer snowman - how not to like this combination? The perfect sunny resort run by a military Colonel that acts like he was in the British army back in the 1950s soon becomes a killing ground as Jack starts disposing the island of tourists.
 
The cop is extremely paranoid since the last Christmas "celebration" with Jack Frost and while no one believes that snowman is back in the game, people start dying on rather silly ways. I will mention a bikini model licking a cube of ice powered by Mr. Snowman himself and getting her head blown off, miscellaneous people getting their limbs cut off by snowball bonanza and so on. Overall the situations surrounding Jack's action moments were often quite funny. If it just weren't for those extra cheap one liners he is saying all the time, the overall feeling of the movie would be much better. On this way, you can get even frustrated with the amount of "coolness" he provides.
When you think that the flick will finish in a simple and strange way, the writer gives an extra push of epical proportions and present us with Jack Frost's little babies - killing snowballs. They are little murderous bastards, built for approximately $1.50 each and look like mega cheap crossovers between simple snowballs, Gremlins, Critters and those pesky killer tomatoes from the strange movie series which even had George Clooney in it.
Over the top scenes go even further when you find out that the "snowmonsters" are allergic to bananas. Just imagine my shock when I found out that Michael Cooney, the guy who wrote and directed this sequel is the same guy that wrote the screenplay for an awesome thriller Identity from year 2003. On the other hand, Peter Jackson jumped from Bad Taste to LOTR, so - go, go Michael Cooney!
Wow, this was a strange flick. If you want to watch something absurd this surely is the movie for you. The whole movie looks cheap, but overall I kinda enjoyed it. I expected a boring sequel to a rather below average indie offering, but this movie has its moments and can be a good flick to watch with your pals with a large supply of cold beer.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Jack Frost II
MOVIE YEAR: 2000
DIRECTOR: Michael Cooney
WRITING CREDITS: Michael Cooney
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Eileen Seeley
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 91 min
RATING: 5/10
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