Frosty Returns

TV Movie
1993
TV-G
24m

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John Goodman and Elisabeth Moss in Frosty Returns (1993)

The continuing exploits of the famous snowman as he goes up against a more powerful force which threatens all of Christmas.The continuing exploits of the famous snowman as he goes up against a more powerful force which threatens all of Christmas.The continuing exploits of the famous snowman as he goes up against a more powerful force which threatens all of Christmas.

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4.9/10

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Jonathan Winters

Narrator
(voice)

Jan Hooks

Lil
(voice)

Andrea Martin

Miss Carbuncle
(voice)

Brian Doyle-Murray

Mr. Twitchell
(voice)

Elisabeth Moss

Holly
(voice)

Michael Patrick Carter

Charles
(voice)

John Goodman

Frosty the Snowman
(voice)

Steve Stoliar

News Announcer
(voice)
…

Phillip Glasser

Kids
(voice)
(as Philip Glasser)

Gail Lynch

Townspeople
(voice)
…

Mindy Ann Martin

Kids
(voice)
(as Mindy Martin)

Directors
- Evert Brown
- Bill Melendez
Writers
- Oliver Goldstick
- Jim Lewis
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1/10

In a word: awful

This is a story about some greedy bad guys who seek to exploit Frosty and ruin his good name with a terrible product and shoddy politics. The worst part is that they succeeded by releasing "Frosty Returns."

An incomplete list of the problems with one reads like: - The "jokes" are weak and just not funny - The songs are dreadfully flat - The animation is cheaply done and poorly drawn - It doesn't even look like Frosty - The bad guy is a corparate type who doesn't care if his product is bad for the environment - c'mon guys, this is a children's special. - Frosty is now fashion-conscious. - There's no Christmas and no Santa.

All this in sequel to an all-time classic. It's sickening.

homer34
Nov 27, 2003
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Trivia
Contrary to popular belief, this special is not a direct sequel to the original Frosty the Snowman (1969). Rankin/Bass produced the latter special, while Lorne Michaels' Broadway Video produced this special. Additionally, the animation was done by Bill Melendez of Peanuts fame, which is why the style is drastically different from the original Rankin/Bass special.

Goofs
When Frosty starts melting, Holly and Charles point out that there isn't any more snow on the ground, when in fact there is.

Quotes
Frosty: [sees the Summer Wheeze trucks pass by and spray the snow away] Oh, no!
Holly: Don't get upset, Frosty.
Frosty: Upset? "Upset" is waking up and finding out somebody forgot to give you a belly button. "Upset" is finding out somebody stole your nose to play foosball! This ain't "upset", kid! This is PANIC! I'm two squirts from being HISTORY!

Alternate versions
On CBS' more recent broadcasts, the opening and closing bookend shots with the narrator were inexplicably edited to remove the narrator himself, yet his narration was left in. The snowfall was also digitally erased. And the end credits are styled like the end credits to the Peanuts specials from the 80's and early 90's.