Sunday, December 8, 2024

Frosty the Snowman (Yes, the 60's TV Special)

Like with the other animated Christmas specials of my youth, my reviews of such on Letterboxd are the first time I've viewed them since my youth.

I wrote most of this while in Florida but am finishing the review in Kansas, where I landed about an hour ago. The flight went fine, at least by Allegiant standards. It's nice to be w/ family for the next several days. Compared to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer or A Charlie Brown Christmas, this is not as good. Perhaps that is why the memories of this were incredibly hazy.

That said, a silly song from 1950 where the lyrics were only slightly modified for the special resulted in a tale where Frosty becomes sentient due to the magic hat of an inept, self-professed evil magician and to avoid death, a trip to the North Pole is necessitated. My critical opinion aside, it's still a nice, pleasant tale which is charming and given its annual airing on broadcast television since 1969, hopefully still enchants families to this day.

It has charming songs (well, song)/narration from Jimmy Durante and a simple story which makes it easy to like as a perennial favorite, no matter it using traditional animation instead of the traditional Rankin/Bass stop-motion animation.

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