A bit too much treacle, I'm afraid...

Rating: 6/10 (17 August 2013)

Yes folks, this is the future outlook of our youth... Santa Claus is a heavily tattooed muscleman and his army of Yetis, not elves, make the toys. The Easter Bunny is Australian, pretty handy with a boomerang and can create magic burrows to everywhere. The Sandman and The Tooth Fairy are similarly different to what legend tells us. But our main character Jack Frost... well, he's something else. Here we have a boyband reject who likes to create slides and snowball fights for kids... what he calls 'fun' others would describe as 'irresponsible'. There's a problem though... No-one believes in him, so no-one can see him. AND he has a tortured past that he isn't aware of himself. You just knew they'd slip some teenage angst in there somewhere.
The bad guy is the Boogeyman, and I actually found myself sympathising with his plight. I mean, who wouldn't want to rebel against a elite group made up of good-two-shoes, lead by a man who lives in the moon? And give me dreams about dark stallions rather than frolicking unicorns anyday. As you can tell, there's a very fertile imagination on display here, and nearly every scene is packed full of detail making the movie a visual treat. The thing is though, at least for this jaded viewer, the proceedings were too soppy by half and all this stuff about 'the magic of children' and 'having faith in what you can't see' didn't sit right with my breakfast. And it could have been a bit funnier, too.
Still, it was a decent enough effort to make it worth watching at least once. And they LOVE it at fanfiction.net... which has got to count for something... right?! 6/10