Summary: Some sequels are able to capture the grandeur and excitement of their predecessors. The sheer talent and dedication of all the people involved sometimes create a sequel film that is as great as the first. Sadly, Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman fails miserably in this regard. As I settled back on the pleather couch cushion and began to watch this movie on the 72" big screen TV, I can't tell you the excitement that was running through my veins. The original Jack Frost was a tale of a cold-blooded killer (forgive the pun) who slaughtered his victims to assuage his genetically mutated low self-esteem. The second movie did not have the clear and inventive plot of the first, and the actors seemed to know it was bad and they just didn't care. This is where I give you the story so get ready and don't expect much.
At the conclusion of the first movie, Jack Frost had been destroyed as the battered and bleeding Sheriff Sam threw them both into a bubbling green cesspool of antifreeze. The containers of antifreeze had been buried in a gravesite in the hopes that Jack Frost could never rise again. However, the FBI had plans to poke and prod the genetic makeup of the snowman for one reason or another. The lab technicians were unable to revive the killer snownazi much to their chagrin, until a janitor came to clean up the lab after hours and knocked a mug of coffee into the solution. As much as it didn't make sense to me that Jack was revived by a cup of joe (maybe it was the caffeine), this was the least of my worries as Jack was able to stalk Sheriff Sam and his wife who were vacationing on a tropical island. Sam arrived on the island beach as a carrot, that's right I said carrot, and he basked around on the beach for a while before killing three hot supple teen girls. Mind you, those three girls were the only reason why this movie had my attention at all because I thought that some hot girl-on-girl action was to ensue. Anyway, Jack Frost was able to build himself back up into a snowman from a freaking carrot and he wreaked havok all over the island by killing guests and causing it to snow. There was a model who was posing for pictures and she needed to use a piece of ice to make her nips all hard and then she decided to have iced coffee and yes, you guessed it, Jack Frost was the ice. When she swallowed a chunk of ice she blew up or something; all I know is that blood spattered everywhere. Another girl, she was Asian i believe, decided to be naughty and go swimming in a pool naked. As she was swimming, Jack froze the water on top so she was stuck underneath a layer of ice to drown. Later, when Jack hacks up a snowball which turns out to be a snowbaby, and then the people are in a fight against thousands of cheesy little snowballs. Those are just a couple bad scenes in a very bad movie. One of Sheriff Sam's friends figured out that Jack Frost follows Sam around because Sam's blood got mixed in with Jack's genetic material during the antifreeze fight in the first movie. They discovered that since Sam is allergic to bananas, and some of Sam's blood is a part of the killer snowman, Jack can be killed with banana juice. Sam ends up shooting Jack with an arrow with a banana on the tip, exploding the snowman. The end scene shows Sam and his wife walking down the beach, very happy with themselves even though everybody else is dead and they have no way to get off the island. Whew. Best Scene: I didn't really want to do a best scene for this movie because it made my brain hurt but here goes. After Jack Frost made it snow on the island, the guests are having a great time having snowball fights. Nobody seems to care much that it is snowing on a tropical island until Jack comes and starts throwing snowballls too. He hits some guy in the arm with one and blows his arm off, leaving him with a gushing stump. Pretty damn awesome. |
