Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman

Marla:  Oh, come on, Sam, we don't even know if it's Jack Frost.
Sam:  No, Marla, it's probably some other walking, talking snowman that everybody's talking about. 

A title like Jack Frost 2:  Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman offers viewers all the information they need to know whether they'd even consider watching such a film.

The first Jack Frost saw a serial killer coming back from the dead as a mutant killer snowman to terrorize the policeman who caught him.  Fortunately, good triumphed, and Jack is dead and gone.  Now, Sam Tiler (Christopher Allport, returning from the first film) is having trouble getting over last year's massacre, and, with Christmastime approaching, fears Jack's return.  His wife Anne (Eileen Seeley, also returning) suggests a vacation to a tropical island to take Sam's mind off things.  Even if Jack were coming back, a snowman couldn't survive in hot weather anyway, right?

Well, thanks to some shady experiments by government scientists, Jack's been genetically modified so that antifreeze and hairdryers no longer work against him.  Jack is also now somehow psychically linked to Sam, so he makes his way to the sunny island and starts disposing of the vacationers in rather odd ways.  A bikini model's head explodes after sucking on an ice cube with essence of Jack, a cameraman is stabbed to death with a carrot nose, and a boy has his frozen tongue ripped from a pole, with Jack yelling, "Cowa-tongue-a, dude!"

Things really get dangerous when the islanders realize Jack's not alone; he's spawned a whole bunch of baby snowballs who are just as hard to kill as he is.  Even mixing one of the babies in a blender doesn't harm it; instead, the little guy chirps, "That was fun!"

There's actually quite a bit of blood, as limbs are hacked off by deadly snowballs.  The effects are cheap-looking; the baby snowballs are obviously puppets that were purchased at the nearest thrift store.  The purchase price of the DVD is probably larger than the film's budget (check out the "Snowmonton International Airport," quite clearly nothing more than an average home with an open front door).  But this is not a movie that's trying to break new ground in effects work; this is a completely silly movie that never takes itself seriously.  Neither should its viewers.

The DVD surprisingly offers some bonus features.  These include an audio commentary, behind the scenes feature, interview with the director, trailer, and a ludicrous "music video" featuring the cast singing, with no musical accompaniment, what must be an improvised song about Jack (the best part is a rap about the snowballs, culminating in the line, "Not even antifreeze can take the suckas out").