Rish Outfield's reviews
Whoo boy. This is one of those little ‘gems' that makes bad horror worth renting/buying. Don't get me wrong, this movie was awful...but it was also a lot of fun. Not scary. Not smart. Not well-done. But it was absolutely hilarious (funnier than the last THREE Eddie Murphy movies--and it was in the Horror section). Now, I've got a pretty good feeling that some laughs were intended, but the stupidity can't have been intentional. I can't even count the ways in which this movie sucked...but I'll mention two or three. The OBVIOUSLY Californian set, pretending to be cold and snowy. The obvious foam, mascarading as snow (and snowman). A villian so stupid-looking, little children would run TOWARD him if they first encountered the Teletubbies. The ‘carefully' placed snowman images in about every single scene. Dialogue so inane and out-of-place ("I can see your house from up here!" and "Don't eat yellow snow.") that I can only guess they went ahead and wrote the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 version first. Besides how stupid it was, I do have a complaint: the promise of nudity both from a character and the box itself was sharply betrayed. I felt more ripped-off because of that than the crappiness of the movie.
Still, don't avoid it like you would, say Jack-O or Splatter University. Now, it does have a cool holo-change-cover-thingy, but that cost more to make than the film itself. The reason to see it is how funny it is. One death had me laughing so hard my stomach ached (another thing Eddie Murphy hasn't done in years). So, keep that in mind.
Best Scare: Umm... really, there were NONE. At all. Zero.
I'd Recommend It To: Campy-Crap-Horror fans, and people who smoke pot a lot.
Note: The super-hot chick who doesn't take her clothes off on screen would grow up to be the super-hot chick in American Pie who does take her clothes off on screen, Shannon Elizabeth. Only time will tell if this is a 'Future Celebrity Appears.'

The tyranist's thoughts
This is very close to being the lamest baddie in a horror movie ever. The snowman was so ridiculously fake looking and had so little life to him, that I kept wondering if they shouldn't have gone back and done it all Rankin-Bass style. It would have been a vast improvement. Of course, I have always wanted to see some kind of twisted Rankin-Bass cartoon that refutes all of the sugar sweet goodness they try to pump down little kids' throats. But anyway . . .
It was terribly obvious that no money was spent on the script or actors. I can't imagine where the budget went, but the snowman suit didn't look like it was the benefactor. They probably ended up spending a ton of money on fake snow since they were filming in a snowless place in the middle of the summer. I kind of find it amazing that we never saw actors passing out due to heat exhaustion.
SPOILERS FOLLOW.
My favourite part of the movie was the death of the snowman. Not because it was executed particularly well, but because of the idea. If a man is made of some kind of frozen substance drown him in anti-freeze. This effectively melts him (something he can do himself) AND prevents him from reforming. Its hard to make water mixed with anti-freeze into ice. So there it is one solitary kudo for the movie. Still, you should see it just because it is so much fun to mock.