JACK FROST COME BACK FROM THE DEAD AS FROSTY THE SNOWMAN

Kids movies are not normally the sort of thing I'll sit down and watch more than once, but the heartwarming, feelgood 1998 movie JACK FROST has always had some special quality which draws me in to watch it every year or so.


MICHAEL KEATON stars as Jack Frost, whose fictional name he adopted as the namesake for the real life soundtrack band that features in the film. The movie centres around the make believe pretence that following the tragic death of Jack in a car accident when he veers off the road in a storm he re-incarnates himself by using a snowman that he and his son Charlie had built together in their front yard as a medium to come back from the dead.


This all happens a year after the accident, after Charlie is down and out and depressed from a mixture of bereavement over his father's death and being picked on at school by heartless bullies.


During this time, Charlie had given up on playing in the school hockey team, but Frosty the Snowman, complete with tree branches as arms, comes to the rescue of his sorrowful son, and goes about teaching him how to play ice hockey, something he didn't get around to doing when he was alive in 'human' form.


At first when Charlie first discovers that the snowman is alive, he doesn't cotton on to the fact that it's actually his old man Jack, but eventually Charlie dots the I's and crosses the t's and he realises his dad has come back to life as a chunk of ice.


The snowfight scene in the movie where Frosty the Snowman comes to the rescue of Charlie and the ensuing high speed sled scene where Frosty takes chase after the bullies is absolutely hilarious, you dont have to be a kid to crack up watching it.


As the weather starts warming up, Frosty knows his days as a snowman are limited and after some futile attempts to stay frozen he breaks the news to his beloved Charlie that his time is up and he has no choice but to melt away.


The final scene in the movie brings a tear to my eye every time, when Jack Frost in ghost form, not snowman form, comes back one last time to say goodbye to Charlie and his wife Gabby, who's played by KELLY PRESTON.


Emotionally rich movie for people of all ages, even if it was intended to be a kids Christmas movie. Here's two great bluesey rock songs that come with the movie, performed by the JACK FROST BAND, they are FROSTY THE SNOWMAN and DONT LOSE YOUR FAITH. Be watching out for another article featuring the sled scene in the movie. I think I must be still a big kid at heart.