Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Flyerplesys Perfectly adorable

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Python Hyena Jack Frost (1998): Dir: Troy Miller / Cast: Michael Keaton, Joseph Cross, Kelly Preston, Mark Addy, Henry Rollins: Depressing family film with a character given the title name. What kind of nit-pick bullshit is that? Could they not give him a name of more normal presentation? It just sounds like cruel parenting. The concept fails because the magic harmonica is never explained and just sounds like a dumb plot device. Instead it gets reduced to formula that becomes as much fun as a snow covered rock to the head. Michael Keaton plays Jack Frost, a musician who spends less time with his family. A nasty storm sends his car off the road and he is pronounced dead. His son plays the magic harmonica and the result is a talking snowman. We know that he will attempt to conceal him from his mother, and he will eventually melt giving an ending of all the quality of yellow snow. Director Troy Miller has fun with the visuals but that is pretty much all the film has going for it. Keaton is a likable comic actor but this is far beneath his talent. In flat supporting roles are Joseph Cross as his son. Kelly Preston is cardboard as his wife. Mark Addy has the thankless role as best friend who sticks around after the accident. One could say that he stuck around too long if he had any hint that this sh*t storm would be good. The snowman doesn't melt nearly as fast as the screenplay. Score: 2 / 10

adonis98-743-186503 Jack Frost is about a father who gets killed on his way home and comes back as a snow man and i know you might think this is a hilarious joke or that this movie deserves the 5.2 rating but it doesn't because this film is underrated and great first of all Michael Keaton which i love since Batman & Batman Returns kills it in this movie also Kelly Preston was great and the little kid too. It's an emotional and funny ride threw a relationship of a father and son who try to spend more time in Christmas and i think many people cried in the end. Jack Frost is definitely one of my favorite Christmas movies ever made and i will definitely see it again soon.

Scarecrow-88 Truly bizarre WTF? plot aside, "Jack Frost" has a good cast willing to endure it for the sake of a family friendly experience for the right kind of audience who can look past the spirit of a musician/father entering the snowman outside in the yard of his wife and son. You get Michael Keaton doing voice work for the Frosty the Snowman look-a-like (there's even a funny moment where his son comes across the Frosty Christmas special on the tube much to Keaton's chagrin), but at least he had a chance to get in a good forty minutes work in his own skin as a dad struggling to get his Jack Frost Band (his name is actually, really Jack Frost!) a music deal after a lot of neglect to his boy. His son and wife have tolerated his missing the big goal in the little league hockey game and the snowball fights with the neighborhood bullies, so in the form of Frosty, Jack tries to make up for lost time. What does come out of the weird plot is the "dad gets a second chance to be there for his son in a winter bonding missed while in human form" and the leads do what they can to make it work. The snowball fight with the bullies as Jack comes to his son's aid, and the subsequent sledding escape from those snowboarding pricks could be perceived as highlights if they weren't so strange (I had a hard time suspending disbelief as Jack the Snowman uses his stick arms and muffin hands to hurl snowballs at an accelerating rate, and "skinnied" after squeezing between two close trees (and snowboarding when the sled splits in two for that matter)). When Jack and his son get away for one last adventure and Kelly Preston (as the mom) hears her husband's voice across the phone when he calls from their cabin, it is a really emotional moment that is actually poignant…give it to the cast to really take their parts seriously even though the plot is so ridiculously absurd. One scene has Jack the Snowman melting while watching his son playing hockey that, again, is kind of surreal but makes sense considering how the father was often absent when his boy wanted him there so badly. I think for many it will take a hell of a lot to shake the premise, but maybe if you can, then "Jack Frost" might just be an agreeable bit of whimsy that seems best watched during the Holidays.

lisafordeay I mean seriously why the 4.9 rating?? I found nothing wrong with this movie. It had a nice story and the cast was great,I always liked Micheal Keaton from his Batman days and I thought he did a terrific job in this movie. The story is about a work-ethic musician named Jack Frost who dies of a car crash one winters night. So his son Charlie plays the harmonic that he gave him and he is magically reincarnated as a snowman. YES A SNOWMAN hilarious right?? So Jack in his new form spends the Christmas with Charlie and they spend some father/son time together.Yes its a bit stupid and silly in a way for having Micheal Keaton being reincarnated as a snowman and he should have been reincarnated as a human instead but still I loved the scenes that his son and himself spend together. John Travolta's wife Kelly Preston from The Last Song plays his wife who has had it with Jack and his band because he never spends the time with them. So why do I like this movie a lot. Well like I said the story was great and everything so why is it considered one of the most saddest movie of all time next to The Lion King and Marley & Me well you just have to watch the ending to find out. So grab those Kleenex Tissues and get your families together the next Christmas Season as you will be needing them.Im giving this movie an 8/10 because well I liked it and I still like this movie up to this very day. I must have seen it 20 times or more and it still makes me cry at the age of 22.