40
Metascore
25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackJack Frost starts out with sweet promise, then loses steam and gets a little too strange for its own good. It also gets cloyingly manipulative, but its heart is in the right place.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliKids might think the snowman is cool, and some adults might be mildly amused by some of what transpires, but, on the whole, Jack Frost is far too superficial to be affecting, and its facile resolution to the loss of a parent borders on insulting. This is the kind of film that will leave most viewers cold.
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinJack Frost is so sugarcoated that it makes other recent efforts in this genre look blisteringly honest. On the other hand, it's just cheerful and bogus enough to keep children reasonably entertained.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoDirector Troy Miller, making his feature debut, does a decent job with schmaltzy material.
- 33Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanJack Frost is so treacly and fake it makes you feel like you’re trapped in a winter-wonderland paperweight.
- 33The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinJack Frost's juxtaposition of the absurd and the absurdly predictable results in a film that's frequently entertaining, but for the wrong reasons.
- 30Washington PostJane HorwitzWashington PostJane HorwitzCrass, dumbed down and stickily sentimental, it's a flavorless confection that clearly had too many chefs tugging at the taffy.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertJack Frost is the kind of movie that makes you want to take the temperature, if not feel for the pulse, of the filmmakers.
- 0Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovBe it the use of faux snow that looks like the dog ends of previously owned Q-Tips or the successively worse series of blue-screened visuals, the film is shoddy from frame one.