Rudolph and Frosty's Funeral in July
Christmas in July is already a bizarre term as it is, the movie Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July is even weirder. In this crossover Christmas(?) movie, Milton the ice cream man comes to the North Pole. He tells Rudolph and Frosty if they come and star in his girlfriend’s circus by the sea, he will marry her. Frosty, his wife, and two kids all really want to go, but they can’t because they are snowmen, duh. Conveniently there is an evil wizard who was once in control of the North Pole before Santa and the misfits showed up. He promises Frosty and his family special magic amulets that will prevent them from melting, but if they don’t leave the circus before the 100th firework goes off, they will die. For some reason, Frosty risks his entire family’s lives to go see this circus, and accepts the offer. Rudolph says he will also attend, and Santa Claus promises to pick them all up from the beach before the 100th firework. Already, this is very sketchy, but Rudolph and Frosty’s family all fly down in Milton’s balloon. They get introduced to the woman who runs the circus, and Milton’s girlfriend, and begin work on their acts. The evil wizard, sends an evil reindeer to trick Rudolph into stealing all of the circus’ money. Now, everyone hates Rudolph and he loses his glowing nose because he used it for evil. The fireworks begin going off and Frosty and his family are very nervous, as Santa has not arrived yet (the evil wizard trapped him in an ice tornado). His kids start crying about how they don’t want to die, and Frosty patiently awaits death. However, Frosty and his family can be brought back to life with his magic hat, so the wizard must prevent this. He also wants the hat so he can clone a million Frostys for an evil army. So, he makes a deal with Frosty, give up the magic hat, and everyone won’t hate Rudolph. Frosty, for some reason, gives up his and entire family’s life so Rudolph is no longer a criminal? (A terrible trade if you ask me). Now, Rudolph thinks he can defeat the evil wizard and save everyone before the last firework goes off. So Rudolph breaks the wizard’s magic staff and he dies. However, so did the wizard’s magic, so those magic amulets that kept Frosty alive, disappeared. Rudolph in fact, melted, in which successfully killed Frosty, and his family prematurely. No worries, a whale with a clock in his tail shows up with Jack Frost from Costa Rica (what) and Jack Frost uses his magic ice breath to refreeze Frosty and his family. Conveniently Santa shows up right at the end to take them all home and they live happily ever after in the North Pole. Now, after reading this, I’m sure you’re thinking, “This can’t be a real thing.” Oh no, I assure you it is very much a real, and hilariously depressing Christmas movie. It teaches you nothing, other than don’t trust evil wizards to change the laws of science so you can go to the beach, which is really just common sense. I have no idea how this was put into production and none of it makes any linear sense whatsoever. It really just ruins the cherished stop-motion Christmas brand we all love. Overall, this movie was not well produced, but it was a very enjoyable watch if I may say so myself. I rate this bad good, give it a watch next holiday season.
Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ohKUcjl58
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