Overrated and overhyped

It is a performances centric movie

Instant Favorite.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I was thinking "This is odd" pretty much through the whole thing. But it kept my attention and I didn't want to turn it off.Buddy Hackett plays the groundhog, which is a hoot. It's better than his Chinese waiter routine, I guess. The guy who plays the villain sounds like Boris from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon, but it isn't the same guy.There are many questions here. Why did Jack Frost choose the name "Snip" if there already was a character named snip? Why is it nobody noticed that the villain is actually a genius with clockwork? How did Jack Frost learn how to tailor?That doesn't really matter, though. It's about as believable as any of the other stop-motion Holiday specials.

Watched this post-Christmas-dinner by accident on PPV (I thought it was something else) and discovered why it's never shown on network television any more: A complete lack of racial sensitivity, political correctness, or a single verse that didn't make you simultaneously cringe and laugh (and not in a good way).The villain is basically a Stalin character (red outfit, black beard, starving the peasants, etc.); snow is made by 'gypsies'; the 'parents' have eastern European accents but the 'kids' don't (they may live in some impoverished Russia-like country, but apparently the kids are second-generation Americans). My husband remarked that the whole thing was a classic 'evil overlord vs the poor peasants' kind of Communist manifesto.I personally was more annoyed by the simultaneous existence of King Arthur's knights and iron horses and the horrible, horrible songs.I'm thinking that if you first saw this as a child of 5, watching it by the Christmas tree on a countdown to Christmas Eve sometime during the Cold War, you may have some fondness for it. Otherwise, steer clear.

Names like January Junction, words like kopper kaputnik, ideas like ice money ... are the epitome of creativity and originality. Amazing that an animation can contain: COMEDY (how the peasants overcome their adversities is inspiring, but comical)…DRAMA (the evil Kubla Kraus and the tight grip he has on the peasants of January Junction)…LOVE STORY (all in the name of love, Jack did everything within and outside of his power for the love of Elisa...including surrendering his own mortality. Sadly, in the end he loses to fate and reverts to his former self as a winter spirit. Still, he tenderly brushes Elisa's cheek with a soft wintry kiss before soaring high, back to his Winter World among the clouds.

Jack Frost is one of my favorite animation...it puts you in the Christmas spirit with its glitters and icy colors...without mentioning the beautiful snow...it is so magical and beautiful. It also is romantic since Jack Frost decides to become human to conquer a beautiful human girl... The characters are beautifully created, with tons of imagination, their costumes are amazing, the voices too really are charismatic; the scenes are unbelievably unique and creative; it is a moving and humorous fairy-tale... Even though I no longer am a child, I each year look forward to watching this beautiful animation during Christmas!