{"id":8499,"date":"2024-11-18T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8499"},"modified":"2024-11-18T23:32:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T04:32:51","slug":"jack-frost-2-revenge-of-the-mutant-killer-snowman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/18\/jack-frost-2-revenge-of-the-mutant-killer-snowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman<\/strong> (2000)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A-Pix Entertainment\/Horror-Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 91 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (language, graphic violence and gore, nudity)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Michael Cooney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Michael Cooney\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Chris Anderson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Dean Lent\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: November 21, 2000 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Starring: Christopher Allport, Eileen Seeley, Chip Heller, Marsha Clark, Scott McDonald, Ray Cooney, David Allen Brooks, Sean Patrick Murphy, Tai Bennet, Melanie Good, Jennifer Lyons, Shonda Farr, Ian Abercrombie, Doug Jones, Stephanie Chao, Granger Green.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can\u2019t say Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman<\/strong> is either better or worse than its predecessor, but I certainly must give writer-director Cooney points for effort. This sequel is positively loony!<\/p>\n

\u00a0First off, I LOVE the title! Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman<\/strong> sounds like a Saturday Night Live skit. And if that\u2019s not enough, wait until you hear the premise, you\u2019re going to love this one. Maybe you should sit down for this. Are you sitting? Good, here it comes. Jack Frost (the titular mutant killer snowman) comes back to life and terrorizes our heroes at a tropical island resort. Yes, you read that right, a tropical island resort!<\/p>\n

\u00a0How can a snowman survive in such a climate, you ask? Easy, he\u2019s a mutant <\/em>killer snowman. In a movie like this, that\u2019s about all the explanation you\u2019re going to get. I suppose it might have something to do with the genetic tinkering undergone by Jack\u2019s liquefied remains at the beginning of the movie, but who knows? Moreover, who cares? And if that\u2019s still not enough, get a load of this. Jack \u201cgives birth\u201d to killer snowballs<\/em>. That\u2019s right, killer snowballs! He coughs up snowballs, they hatch and little snowballs (replete with icicle fangs!) come out. I swear I\u2019m not making this up. I can\u2019t believe I just wrote all of this with a straight face; after all, I couldn\u2019t maintain one at all while watching the movie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It goes without saying JF2<\/strong> is a bad movie for many of the same reasons as the original movie. But once again, everything that should have worked against it actually works in its favor. A friend of mine once stated there are some movies that you just don\u2019t watch under any circumstances (like Leprechaun: In the Hood and JF2<\/strong>). Obviously, I disagree with him on that point. Where is the fun in avoiding movies with bad titles? If I listened to him (or any of legions of people who have voiced this same sentiment over the years), I wouldn\u2019t have had the pleasure of experiencing the delirious fun that is JF2<\/strong> (not to be confused with JFK).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Let me help you get caught up on things. At the end of the first movie, Sheriff Sam Tiler (Allport) and company finally took down the evil Jack Frost (McDonald) with antifreeze (duh, that sounds logical!) and buried his liquefied remains in jugs in the local cemetery. Of course, the movie\u2019s parting shot leaves the viewer with the impression that the situation isn\u2019t over yet. Sure enough, it\u2019s not over!<\/p>\n

\u00a0At the beginning of JF2<\/strong>, somebody digs up the jugs and takes them to a laboratory where scientists conduct experiments on the liquid. An accident resurrects our old friend Jack who reforms and escapes from the lab. D\u2019OH!!! It\u2019s been a year since Jack\u2019s rampage through Snowmonton and Tiler still hasn\u2019t recovered from the stress of his bloody encounter with the mutant killer snowman. Sam and his wife Anne (Seeley) decide to take a vacation to a tropical Pacific island to attend the wedding of their friends, Deputy Joe Foster (Heller) and his fianc\u00e9e Marla (Clark). They\u2019re greeted by the eccentric Colonel Hickering (Ray Cooney) and his staff, including an activities director who calls himself Captain Fun (Murphy).<\/p>\n

\u00a0Naturally, Jack follows the group to the island and proceeds to rack up another impressive body count after washing up on shore. He starts with three models there for a photo shoot. Shortly after a couple of guests discover the mutilated bodies, Sam learns the resort\u2019s head of security in none other than our old pal Agent Manners (Brooks) who somehow survived his \u201cfatal\u201d encounter with Jack in the original movie. Fired from the FBI, he\u2019s certain Jack is responsible for the deaths, but he and the Colonel decide to cover things up to avoid a panic among the other guests. They end up blaming the grisly mess on a \u201ccoconut shark\u201d attack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jack continues his murderous rampage until there are only a few survivors. That\u2019s when the snowman starts coughing up the aforementioned killer snowballs. I should also mention that Sam and Jack are now psychically linked due to the fact that some of the sheriff\u2019s blood (from an icicle stabbing wound) dripped into the antifreeze. Naturally, this will be a primary factor in figuring out how to kill Jack once and for all.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Gorehounds will be thrilled that the body count in JF2<\/strong> has been increased twofold (24 on-screen murders) which basically means more blood for their buck. Once again, we\u2019re treated to some fairly creative murders. Here now are some of the gory highlights: a woman gets crushed by a snow anvil, a woman gets impaled on giant icicles protruding from the ground, another woman gets killed with a pair of tongs to the eyes, a woman\u2019s head explodes after ingesting ice cubes made from you-know-who, a guy gets a carrot in the eye, a female skinny dipper drowns after Jack ices over the swimming pool, some idiot gets his tongue torn out by Jack after sticking it to a frozen flagpole (a nod to A Christmas Story, perhaps?), a guy gets his arm knocked off by a snowball and people get stabbed with icicles or killed by icicle projectiles.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Additionally, several people are attacked and killed by the killer snowballs with their little icicle fangs (aka death by \u201cfrostbite\u201d). This whole plot thread can only be seen as a huge nod to Joe Dante\u2019s Gremlins (another warped holiday classic!). At one point, somebody throws one of the little buggers into a blender and turns it on. I\u2019m sorry, but I love stuff like this! Who cares if JF2<\/strong> once again features lousy special effects, terrible acting and hilariously bad dialogue (including more groan-inducing puns involving ice and snow)? I won\u2019t even bother quoting any of them this time. Watch the movie and hear them for yourself.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Here\u2019s the deal, anybody who watches a movie called Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman<\/strong> knows exactly what they\u2019re getting themselves into. You should be able to tell by this self-explanatory title whether or not you\u2019ll enjoy it. It\u2019s the kind of movie that would play well as a special holiday feature at a grindhouse. It\u2019s 100% schlock! As one of my colleagues from the Philadelphia film scene would say, \u201cIt\u2019s crap!\u201d In this case, that would be a compliment of the highest order. It\u2019s excellent bad movie fun!\"\"<\/p>\n

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