Frosty Returns

Plot synopsis:
The special begins with a musical number showing that Beansboro Elementary School is canceled for the day due to a seven-inch snowfall. While the adults incessantly complain about the problems snow and ice cause, the children enjoy the opportunity to play outside.
The scene then shifts to Holly DeCarlo, a lonely young girl and aspiring magician with only one friend, a tone-deaf, somewhat geeky character named Charles who has a knack for climatology. While practicing a magic act with Charles, the wind blows Holly's hat off her head, out the window, and onto a snowman who comes to life as Frosty, thus revealing that Holly's hat was "that old silk hat" featured in the original song and previous adaptations.
Meanwhile, a new product appears in Beansboro that successfully causes snow to instantly disappear (and Frosty to scream in agonizing pain), an aerosol spray called "Summer Wheeze." Summer Wheeze's inventor, Mr. Twitchell, hopes to use the product to win over the people of Beansboro so that he will be crowned King of the Beansboro Winter Carnival, apparently believing that the title will give him actual dominion over the townspeople (at least once, Twitchell also indicates he is waging war against Mother Nature, implying he is actually seeking world domination and that Beansboro is simply his first step). At a presentation before the town council, one of the trustees voices concern about the environmental impact of the untested product, to which Mr. Twitchell responds by opening a trapdoor beneath her seat.
To Twitchell's delight, and Frosty's dismay, the town of Beansboro falls head over heels for "Summer Wheeze," causing Frosty to fear for his long-term safety. When many of their classmates rally for the elimination of snow when in class the next day, only a day after singing about its virtues, Holly and Charles take on the duties of protecting Frosty, including hiding him in a freezer and securing refuge for him in an ice castle built for the Carnival. Later, Holly gets Frosty to appear at the Winter Carnival in an attempt to persuade the townspeople to rethink their hatred of snow. Singing about the joy of winter, Frosty is unanimously declared king of the carnival. In the end, Frosty and Holly make amends with Mr. Twitchell (where he now realizes that he's no match for Mother Nature) let him wear the crown and cape and let him ride in the sled of the carnival king. Later Frosty must leave Beansboro, but he assures Holly that he will be back again someday (as alluded to in the song).

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Review:
There is no reason at all to watch this.The animation is poor and the characters look like cheap, Charlie Brown knockoffs.
The writers, desperately trying to channel the spirit of Willy Wonka, tried to make a script that appealed to kids on one level, and adults on another, and failed, miserably, at both.The music (by Mark Mothersbaugh, late of DEVO) was tuneless and boring and completely unmemorable - which, considering it came from someone who had given us inspired music like "That's Pep", "Peek-a-Boo" and the cover of "Satisfaction", you expected far better.Shall I go on?
My best guess is that he was at Moe's Place with Homer Simpson because he was too embarrassed to be associated with this.As I watched this with my daughter (who, wisely, was more concerned with playing with junk mail and my dog's chew toy) I cringed at the songs, winced at the "jokes", shook my head at the awful animation.
But their talents, were completely wasted here.It is incredible to me that CBS insists on showing this garbage, every year, back-to-back with the original Frosty - a sublime classic.
This is a story about some greedy bad guys who seek to exploit Frosty and ruin his good name with a terrible product and shoddy politics.
An incomplete list of the problems with one reads like: - The "jokes" are weak and just not funny - The songs are dreadfully flat - The animation is cheaply done and poorly drawn - It doesn't even look like Frosty - The bad guy is a corparate type who doesn't care if his product is bad for the environment - c'mon guys, this is a children's special.
It was played right after the classic original "Frosty the Snowman" making viewers think it has something to do with it.
The animation is awful as well, no where near the quality of the original or even the good sequel "Frosty's Winter Wonderland." The fact that they stuck this on as a bonus feature for the DVD of the original turned me away.
It makes perfect sense to have a Frosty sequel, but to make one with absolutely nothing resembling the original is mind boggling.I challenge anyone to show me a "holiday" special with a more insipid plot or music.
Instead of a holiday, the focus of the retards in this special's town is a non-denominational "Winter Carnival" that is featured so prominently in the dialog that you get the feeling at the screenplay stage somebody literally crossed out the word "Christmas" whenever it was used and wrote "Winter Carnival" over it instead in an effort to make the cartoon more audience-inclusive for those who don't celebrate Christmas.
Even more telling is that the meanie Capitalist isn't even allowed to learn or grow or be changed by the events, he's simply a two dimensional bastard for everyone to hate and go right on hating even after the show is over.Which brings us to the issue of environmentalism, clumsily imposed on the story in the cartoon's big moment of revelation where the mean Capitalist is exposed as the threat to everyone's communal happiness as he is lectured to by an 8 year old girl about how snow is as important as sunlight and rain and, yes, clean air for everyone to breathe.
It comes across as a filmed deal with a bunch of celebrities providing the voices because their agents thought it would be a good career move to be involved with a non- denominational seasonal family special that has an environmental message to it.2/10: Skip it..
The original was a fun show for kids and adults, Frosty Returns, however is absolutely painful to watch due to the messaging embedded in it.While I can appreciate using cartoons as a vehicle to inform youths, doing it in a Christmas show just creates confusion and is out of place.This show does not have the same level of interest, movement of plot and sadly, even animation fun as the original, even though it was created decades later.Save your children the disappointment, don't let them watch this trash..
This supposed sequel to the beloved original 1969 Rankin/Bass special just plain stinks!
The first thing my nephew said was "This looks like Charlie Brown" and he was right - it was produced by the makers of the Peanuts specials.
He acts nothing like he did in the original, spouting out things that seem to be jokes and dancing at completely random times.
From then on Holly and Charles try to both save Frosty and stop Summer Wheeze.You won't find any mention of Christmas here.
It's like clockwork-I love December, tolerate January, get annoyed in Feburary, disgusted in March, and by the time Spring comes around like an angel of salvation, I'm ready to put a bullet in my head.What Frosty Returns does is lecture for thirty minutes about how winter isn't bad-we NEED winter, it's fun, pretty, magical!
Holly has to convince everybody that snow is actually good.The animation looks simplistic like old 70s kids show.
Well frosty the snowman is back to help a little girl to make friends and enjoy the snow of the holidays.
Well you'll have to watch to find out.Well at first you get to see several well known actors playing in this such as John Goodman and Jonathan Winters, but after that you look at this and find out that this film belongs with all the rip off cheap movies in your Kroger $1 Isl. The animation looks like someone did a bad job of copying the peanuts and the voice acting is terrible.
I like the actors who are in this movie, so don't think I have something against John Goodman, Brian Doyle-Murray or Jan Hooks.
If you have kids, and want to plop them down in front of the TV and watch this cartoon, they may behave better if you immediately threaten afterward that bad behavior will result in multiple viewings.
"Frosty Returns" traffics on the good name of the original, but it bears no resemblance aside from the name of the snowman we all love so dearly.
...watch paint dry, or a cut apple turn brown before you waste 30 minutes of your or your children's time...Poorly conceived, animated and written, "Frosty Returns" is a poor excuse for a Holiday cartoon.
And the animation, looks like a high school animation submission to a contest...and even then, it would have only warranted a C-..Instead, watch the 1969 classic, "Frosty the Snowman" and sing along with Jimmy Durante, and listen to the great voice of the underrated Jackie Vernon!!!Now there is a true Christmas Classic!!!.
Frosty the Snowman is a timeless Christmas classic with memorable characters, beautiful music and great animation.
Not coincidentally, the animation and the characters at times look like something out of a Peanuts cartoons.
It wasn't hummable, it wasn't memorable, it was just embarrassing.Why this continues to be shown every year opposite the original Frosty - in my mind one of the three best Christmas specials of all time - escapes me.
Watch the Original Frosty -- or Santa Claus is Coming to Town!.
Now, I gotta little girl -- who finally gets to watch all the Christmas classics of my youth with me (I sit there and tell her what's going on.
This Frosty Returns was total garbage for little kids (and me!).I have a 5 pack of Christmas Classics on DVD (Sony Wonder put them out -- Santa Claus is coming to Town, Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy, and Frosty Returns, and my daughter wanted to watch Frosty the Snowman for the 5th time, but I said hey, let's watch Frosty Returns -- if you don't like it, we'll watch the original Frosty.I was winterizing the baseboards 4 feet from my daughter (it's December in Wisconsin), listening to the voices and the dialog, and it was pure dreck!
However, I feel bad that I subjected my 2 1/2 year old daughter to the 30 minutes.When it was over, I asked her what she thought, and she said: "That wasn't good, Dad. Can I watch the real Frosty?"I laughed very hard and I told her I would never make her watch this movie again.Later, I told my wife and she laughed as well.
If a 2 1/2 year old knows it's bad, the original producers definitely should have test marketed this "classic" it a little better..
I haven't seen the other sequels to Frosty the Snowman, but they are probably better than this.
Most of the plot doesn't make sense and none of the characters from the original, save for Frosty, is even in this.
I am not as angry with this special as some people are but it's problems The villain is not a villain at all he has made a great invention a spray that melts snow and ice.Frosty and holly the girl who brought him to life with a magic hat have to stop the spray that swept the town trucks go by spraying the stuff around like DDT trucks.There is no mention of Christmas or Holiday the only thing anyone talks about is the Winter Carnival for all i know this takes place in January or February there's one part were someone says it should only snow on the Winter Carnival what about snowing on Christmas.Holly's friend Charles has no imagination and can't believe frosty came to life by magic And frosty can live without his hat on his pipe is even gone.
I believe that Christmas came from the winter solstice and i would not mind a winter solstice Christmas special but this is to PC it's not all bad but it's got many flaws.One thing i don't get is why frosty's winter wonderland from Rankin Bass air once or twice a year on ABCfamily and this airs every time Frosty does..
"Frosty Returns" is actually a nice little, sort of independent sequel, to the original Christmas classic "Frosty the Snowman".
I just think that "Frosty Returns" is a nice little Christmas movie.
Frosty is voiced by John Goodman this time and the lovable snowman is even more lovable.
Frosty's song, "Let there be Snow" is actually one of the better made-for-children Christmas songs that I've heard in a long time.
And John Goodman's talent at voice acting just aids in the surprisingly good lyrics.Bottom line, I don't expect many people to agree with my review, but I will stick to my opinion that "Frosty Returns", while it's not a masterpiece, is very excellent for what it is.
Granted i liked "legend of frosty the snowman" better, but this still was a fun little episode length movie.
As for Frosty returns, it's actually a pretty original story idea.
I watched it a long time ago when I was like 7 (Years) old and I thought it was still not bad but I got this movie on DVD from the library to watch with my sister and with somebody's 3 year old and oh no, I noticed this film was quite awful.
It's like the worst Christmas movie you have ever seen and a bad sequel off Frosty the snowman and a horrible rip-off for some of the characters off of Charley Brown like they edited them and take all the comedy off.
This film definitely takes your time away and makes you want to watch something for a whole 5 days to get your life back.
But the legend of frosty the snowman was nearly bad too but a little better than this.
I think people should pack up making these frosty the snowman movies stink like crap.
While practicing a magic act with Charles, the wind blows Holly's hat off her head, out the window, and onto a snowman who comes to life as Frosty, thus revealing that Holly's hat was "that old silk hat" featured in the original song and previous adaptations.Now does that sound exciting of course not.
They created the original classic "Frosty the Snowman" cartoon as well as other classic Christmas cartoons.
It was a very simple story where the ending was obvious but come on this is just a Christmas cartoon for kids.
The kids loved it, it was entertaining enough for us adults (and not nearly as annoying as most of the other holiday cartoons we watched) and I think it is very underrated here..
In addition, the thing that really makes this special worth watching is the music, especially "Let There Be Snow." When that's performed, I always sing along.
It had a good story line and the normal story line, but there where some think I disliked in the movie.(John Goodman) did a nice job as Frosty.
It's the 1 with Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, The Little Drummer Boy, Mr Magoo's Christmas Carol, Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, the Original Frosty The Snowman, The Cricket On The Hearth....and THIS mess.
The only thing it has in common with the original is that there are humans in it, it's the Christmas season and a snowman comes to life...oh, and it names the snowman as "Frosty", and he is white in color.
But when Holly and her friends Charles and Frosty discover this product they must convince everyone that snow is a good thing.
So the corporate guy wants to melt all the snow with some aerosol thing, and nobody in the town even cares, except for Frosty and some girl who thinks she's a magician, and her brother.
The characters are poorly developed, if at all.There was a much better sequel to the original Frosty called Frosty's Winter Wonderland, where he meets the love of his life and gets married.
I don't think it is but the first Frosty the Snowman is way better.
I'll come right out and admit that I regard Rankin-Bass' "Frosty the Snowman" as one of the all-time great holiday classics, a glowing happy memory from my teen years that does not dim with each repeat viewing.
How can anybody hate a special in which the villain snivels at the end-- "Us evil magicians have to make a living too you know!"On the other hand, it's clear far too many people found it all too easy to hate "Frosty Returns!" Okay, I regard it mainly as an interesting curio, its chief charms being that it answers the question, "What would Frosty the Snowman be like if handled by the creators of the Peanuts specials instead of Rankin-Bass?" Yes, Jonathon Winters is no Jimmy Durante and John Goodman is no Jackie Vernon, but I thought the cast members made a game effort with what could have been better material (as often the case, creators who produced magnificent creations don't have as deft a touch handling another creator's classic work).A lot of the viewers' anger at the special seems based on it connecting strictly with wintertime and not with Christmas at all.
I never connected Frosty the Snowman with Christmas when my elementary school teacher read Frosty's story from one of those little thin-volumed kiddie books, or when I played a 45 having the song on one side on my children's record player at home.
The perception of Frosty the Snowman becoming a Christmas carol has seemed to grow over the years since the 1960s (the now unbreakable tie-in of Frosty into Christmas was undoubtedly aided in no small part by the Rankin-Bass special coming out at the end of the 1960s).Like I said, not great, but it can be a pleasant innocuous half hour to spend if you take it just for what it is..
What could possibly be so offensive about a talking ball of snow that you couldn't just do a straightforward Frosty the Snowman story?
John Goodman's singing voice as Frosty the Snowman is a major minus unfortunately.
You know this special was aired originally in 1992 because there's an MTV reference.Another thing I liked about this movie is the friendship theme.
Its movies like this that ruin Christmas for the rest of us.
Just because it isn't Jackie Vernon and it doesn't look like the Rankin/Bass Frosty doesn't make it horrible.
And I also love the Rankin/Bass Frosty the Snowman specials.
I liked the instrumental version of 'Frosty the Snowman' at the beginning as well as the children versus grown-ups song about snow and 'Let There Be Snow' that reminded me a bit of 'Let It Snow.' Holly is just as endearing a character as Karen from the original and I especially sympathised for her when her teacher was hostile towards her during the search for her magic hat, for not being a good magician (think Professor Hinkle) and the other children wishing for no more snow when she wanted it to stay to keep Frosty alive.
In any case, this is an interesting watch in terms of voice acting, because it has John Goodman as Frosty and I am a fan of him.
Honestly, I thought it was better than the original.The original Rankin/Bass special was about school kids who built Frosty, a snowman who came to life.
Where the original TV special had Frosty in danger of natural summer, this new story has him in danger of melting at the hands of people who want to get rid of snow.
Eventually, Frosty and Holly show the town that snow can be magical.
Watch The Actual Frosty the Snowman Sequel, Frosty's Winter Wonderland.
The special have nothing do with Christmas but it more about the environment and has no connection to the original Frosty the Snowman.
The biggest question why CBS still continue to put that special on every year after the original Frosty the Snowman instead show the actual sequel from the 1970s anyway?
A businessman voiced with unscrupulous relish by Doyle-Murray sells a snow-melting product in a bottle that takes over a small town which threatens the life of Frosty, the Snowman (voiced with good energy by John Goodman) as little Holly (voiced by Mad Men's Liz Moss) tries to help him save Christmas from getting rid of a significant part of the holiday season.