Review of Jack Frost

I've watched these Rankin-Bass Christmas stories more times than I care to remember, and when they are as lame as Jack Frost it is even worse. I do still get the nostalgic feeling from their particular brand of stop-motion animation, but I just wish the stories were better. This one is extremely weird as we watch some type of magical being fall in love with a human and then beg to become human himself to connect with her. But he's stymied by a strange villainous ruler who has a metal puppet that he talks to, as if he has some kind of insane mental disorder. The plot is insane, and every time I watch this TV special I cannot stand watching Jack get friend-zoned so hard. It's not that I have any particular affinity for the character, but it's a gut-punch of a story particularly when it's always aired around the Christmas season (which I typically associate with more happy stories and warm feelings.) There are still some cute elements to the plot in Jack Frost, and I think the animators found some creative new ways to execute visual effects, but by and large this is one of the Rankin-Bass classics that I dread my wife asking to watch every single year.