A potential brilliant diamond that was wasted

Rating: 6/10 (27 January 2013)

I have registered myself only cause I felt that I wanted to write this review for a movie that could be amongst one of the best of its kind, but it was so pity that it failed, for very specific reasons.
The backbone of the story was excellent, especially for the kids and Jack Frost was also, plus it had nice effects. But the goods stop there.
Problems: 1. The bad guy captures large part of the movie and for small kids he is frightening, more than I would tolerate for a kid. I know that he was supposed to be, but...he could be less darker and capture smaller proportion of the film.
2. The design of at least two of the guardians, personally to me, was bad, could not think worst. Santa Claus was very "Russian" and did not appear even close to kids stereotype. So was also the tooth fairy, i this case the result was totally bad. For Sandman and Easter Bunny I cannot say, as I had not expectations.
3. There was a sad part in the story, that I did not find the best thing the kids to see and think of during X-mas.
4. The movie here was like abandoned by the distributor or whoever is in charge of this. There was none multiplex chain playing it, one could see it only small peripheral independent cinemas.
As another reviewer said, this had so large potential, it could be some kind of avengers for kids and even better, the core idea was a brilliant diamond, however was wasted (I don't know the reason).