CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Gary L. Thompson 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. I'd be the first to admit it's a bit of fluff that one reviewer especially well could have had in mind, when he complained that none of the holiday specials really reflected the real meaning of Christmas aside from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" or "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"-- but hey! 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. Well, in the special's defense, that's really in keeping with the original song (even if this special doesn't really incorporate the song's basic story). 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.

MartianOctocretr5 Don't be fooled into thinking this slush has anything to do with the classic children's Christmas special. In fact, the word Christmas is avoided like the plague, along with almost anything that is connected with Christmas. No Rudolph, no Santa, no Nativity, no Christmas tree; nothing.The holiday referenced? Winter Festival, whatever that is. In the story, it looks like a company picnic thing where a few small carnival booths are erected to take your money in those impossible skill games. Snow is the only thing in the story, and the only source of conflict. Adults hate it. Misled kids hate it. The evil clichéd big business guy really really hates it. 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. That's it. Oh and Johnathon Winters is there as some little midget that flies around on snowflakes. What he is supposed to be is never explained and never makes sense. Frosty doesn't look or act the same, as he did in the original, and the story line has absolutely no connection to the events and characters of the original. He's as afraid to mention Christmas as everybody else is, and doesn't really have much to do except whine. The writing has no warmth, no humor, no heart. The story (what there is of it) never engages and brings no emotional response when resolved. The animation is cheap and ugly. 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. See that instead. Hopefully, the network that carries Frosty will start airing that sequel with it, and melt this one down.

Stompgal_87 I watched this on YouTube after having read reviews here on IMDb to see how it compared to the original 'Frosty the Snowman.' To be honest it is on the same level as the original in spite of its animation style being completely different.Further to the animation style, it was slightly smoother than that in the original and in spite of its Saturday morning cartoon look, it was reminiscent of any Charlie Brown or Snoopy film or cartoon and the colours were as bright as those in the original. The story had a good environmental message about the misuse of aerosols that were eventually canned (a great pun) and the music wasn't that bad. 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. I was especially happy to see Frosty's hat from the original make a welcome return.All in all this is an enjoyable follow-up to the original 'Frosty the Snowman' and it wasn't as bad as many reviewers said it was. 8/10.

Steve Nyland (Squonkamatic) I usually don't comment on material like this, but come ON. This has to be the worst holiday special ever, and I've seen "A Louie Anderson Christmas" which at least had a couple of subtle laughs in it. This one has nothing to offer except a twisted study of, yes, Liberal Hollywood pet issues on display masquerading as entertainment. And no, I don't listen to Rush Limbaugh, reached these conclusions on my own, and am appalled by how utterly vapid this is as a family entertainment. Pardon me if I take it seriously, but kids aren't stupid and deserve better than this. First off, Christmas is gone, which is odd considering that Frosty is supposed to be a children's Christmas character. They even took his pipe away since we all know that smoking snowmen will be a bad influence on kids. 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. Gee. Also, the whole "miracle" of Frosty's creation is utterly ignored (which makes sense, since we're working any kind of spiritual angle out of this to make way for more consumerism), making the choice of Frosty as the focal character arbitrary & meaningless. Why didn't they just create their own non-denominational Winter Carnival character? The answer is to cash in on the public's fondness for the popular Rankin/Bass cartoons that came before. It's just crass commercialism.Next, the bad guy in the plot is a mean wicked Capitalist who drives around in a stretch limousine polluting the environment with aerosol spray can chemicals that eliminate snow, with his flunky brainwashed nature backstabbing rabbit doing the dirty work. It's not magic spray or anything either, just chemistry, and the mean rich Capitalist threatens to disrupt the non-denominational Winter Carnival by making the snow disappear without even asking for anyone's permission first. He just goes ahead and does it to impose his own will upon nature, just like certain pinheads would have you believe that the world's industry does in a deliberate effort to ruin the planet. 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. This isn't holiday entertainment, it's a subtle form of indoctrination aimed at school kids. And I'd like to invite whomever came up with the idea about grumpy fun-wrecking adults not enjoying shoveling to come to Syracuse and deal with my sidewalk after a healthy dose of lake effect snow. Just once.That leaves us with the songs, which are execrable. Why didn't they bother to get Joan Baez or someone with some actual talent to work these political messages into some songs worth listening to? The answer is because it didn't matter, and that the whole special is a contrivance. I'm one of those people who think that entertainment for children should be even more meaningful and worthwhile than entertainment for adults and something about this special doesn't pass the smell test. 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.