Jack Frost 1998

Critics score:
20 / 100

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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Predictable! Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: It's just cheerful and bogus enough to keep children reasonably entertained. Read more

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Its sentiment is rote, its truths are culled from a trip down the aisles of a greeting-card shop. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Jack Frost is so treacly and fake it makes you feel like you're trapped in a winter-wonderland paperweight. Read more

Globe and Mail: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The snowman, which is the work of Jim Henson's Creature Shop, is the most glaring problem. It looks about as real as a man in a costume, and it's tough to suspend disbelief when you're trying to locate the zipper. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Now we have proof: It's possible for the Jim Henson folks and Industrial Light and Magic to put their heads together and come up with the most repulsive single creature in the history of special effects! Read more

Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Its heart is in the right place. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: Read more

Joe Leydon, Variety: A slickly packaged and engagingly sentimental fantasy-comedy that stands out as one of the season's most pleasant surprises! Read more

Gary Dauphin, Village Voice: A very minor parable on paying attention to family while you can, Frost offers a wide range of passing diversions, from snowboarding derring-do to a minimally annoying computerized title character to lots of tender snowman-son bonding moments. Read more

Jane Horwitz, Washington Post: Formulaic and charmless! Read more