Frosty Returns

After Rankin Bass ended their business, they wouldn’t have the money to create another film on their film unless they produced it. While that’s not entirely bad for them much, CBS desperately wants a Frosty sequel of their own they can air, since they weren’t allow to air Winter Wonderland and Christmas In July because Warner Bros. owned them, despite being aired on the Disney Channel, then Fox Family, as it became ABC Family and as currently as Freeform because of Disney. So the only solution was to make the start of the Rankin Bass related sequels; sequels from a Rankin Bass film not done by Rankin Bass.

So yay, Frosty Returns, again!

Its snow day in the town of Beansboro, the kids are playing out while the adults are miserable shoving away snow. Holly is a lonely girl, tries to be a magician with her only friend Chuck, but loses her hat to the wind. The magic hat landed on a snowman to become Frosty the Snowman to befriend Holly.

Meanwhile, there’s a businessman named (voiced by Brian Doyle Murray) who created a spray called Summer Breeze to instantly clear away snow.

Is Frosty safe from such a product?

This was done by Bill Menedez, the voice of Snoopy and part of the Peanuts Production, and the music was done by Mark Motherbaugh, the same guy who did the Rugrats music.

I remember watching this when I was young on Christmas, along with Rover Dangerfield and when I had a plastic tent. Don’t ask what kind of tent was it!

I liked it OK back then, but it has gotten a lot worst with time. It’s definitely because of the story. Anytime we have an environmental film, they’re usually predictable crap, unless you’re Wall-E, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Power Rangers RPM, and Sonic SATAM. Half the times you root for the villain and the heroes are mostly prissy. Has the plan to remove snow, which can, to the kids it’s destroying their enjoyment, as to the adults, he is doing them a favor. The only way he could be a bigger villain if he uses his Summer Breeze to remove all the snow in the entire world, even the Himalayas, Greenland, Iceland, the South Pole, and the North Pole. If he does success, then he and everyone would be drowned to death, alive while in boats or floating without being killed by sea life or going mutated into sea life or Kevin Costner.

John Goodman is the replacement voice since Jackie Vernon died shortly before the making. Not a bad replacement, you couldn’t tell its Goodman, but nowadays I get a Scoop T. Snowman vibe out of him. Jonathan Winter is kind of a pointless, as he can’t be involved much being the size of Papa Smurf. So pointless that CBS remove Jonathan on a snowflake from the beginning and end of the film. Holly might be the best human character of the Frosty film since Karen. What’s different than the others before and after is she’s not a perfect child, but a lonely smart kid, and so would I when living in this town. She played by Elizabeth Moss, who voiced Michelle in Once Upon A Forest, and her acting is still there as she grows in Mad Man. 

I could say this is a weak start to the related Rankin Bass film, but rarely do any of them go uphill from here. Much like a light flurry, Frost Returns is harmless at most with some salt for the safety sake than a Summer Breeze. It’s best to watch this film with FHE Christmas 1993 promo, as it gives some of the Christmas magic, including the artwork on the Tape Cover. This is just the calm before the storm of the Legend of Frosty the Snowman.