Post #421715 by woofmutt on Mon, Dec 1, 2008 6:50 PM

Opinions happen. (Fortunately neither DJ Terence Gunn or I are very opinionated.) While I didn't want to see this thread filled up with well known popular favorites or get dumped on by holiday haters I always like to see other opinions and well argued debate.

My only reason for mentioning my thoughts on Jack Frost was that the two best known Rankin/Bass Xmas specials...Rudolph, Santa Claus is Coming To Town, (and to a lesser extent Year Without a Santa Claus)...Are known for not only being highly creative and well animated but having great music too.

Jack Frost is not widely known, and as the focus of this thread is good (whether genuinely good or merely enjoyably awful) holiday films/TV that slipped through the cracks, the mentioning of it here implies that it's worth seeking out.

So I added my thoughts: It's not. (I came across it a couple years back on cable and was really happy to discover a Rankin/Bass special I'd never heard of. When I saw how dull it was my excitement faded like a spring frost at dawn.)

But as they said on Reading Rainbow don't take my word on it: I've never liked Little Drummer Boy or Frosty the Snowman.