JACK FROST 2: THE REVENGE OF THE MUTANT KILLER SNOWMAN

Sheriff Sam Tiler is still haunted by the memory of the murderous snowman Jack Frost, and so, to try to forget, he decides to spend Christmas at a holiday village on a tropical island. Meanwhile, some scientists exhume what remains of the killer snowman to conduct experiments, but due to an accident in the laboratories, Jack Frost finds a way to regenerate and his first thought is to carry out his revenge against Sheriff Tiler. To do this, he will also go to the holiday village and will immediately start to sow panic and death among the innocent tourists. Even "Jack Frost" is caught up in the "sequel fever" and so, in 2000, solely for the home video market, the second chapter of that film featuring a large killer snowman is made: "Jack Frost 2 - The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman". The film, which once again bears the signature of Michael Cooney (already director of "Jack Frost"), decides to continue the story right where the first film ended, and so it will be possible to find the same characters, including Sheriff Tiler, who will once again be forced to fight against the threatening killer snowman. If the first film could be comfortably classified under "trash" and stood out from the crowd for its marked ironic vein with which it treated the subject, in this second chapter Cooney decides to overdo it by making a distinctly ironic film that at several points descends into slapstick comedy and that, therefore, turns out to be much more "trash" than the first film. The slapstick elements are all there: a rather talkative snowman who goes around a tropical island (??) reaping victims, bizarre and exaggerated characters who are only an ironic caricature of the teams that manage the holiday villages, and scenes so absurd and unlikely much more suitable for a cartoon than for a film (one of the most notable is the scene where Jack Frost turns into a large ice anvil to crush a poor woman). As in any self-respecting sequel, in "Jack Frost 2" it will also be possible to notice an increase in the strength of the antagonist, who has returned even bigger and stronger, capable this time of moving and acting under the scorching sun of the tropical islands, of changing shape at will, and above all capable of producing small but lethal snowballs (a sort of snowy "Critters") that, in addition to dominating the scene for the entire second half of the film, turn out to be the strong point of the film (note the obvious reference to "Gremlins" by Joe Dante in which these nice little snowballs go crazy inside a bar). If the first film could entertain and engage fans of gore and splatter, in this "Jack Frost 2" they will be even more satisfied thanks to a massive dose of gore and some winks to splatter that, although always treated and represented with much irony, prove to be effective and extremely entertaining. In conclusion, this "Jack Frost 2 - The Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman" turns out to be a sequel that could seem quite useless and certainly inferior to the first film due to a massive and not always well-received dose of slapstick, but that still manages to entertain and amuse the viewer for an hour and a half without too much effort. Recommended especially to lovers of horror-trash.