Hot Frosty

A satire of a Hallmark Christmas movie which also tries to function as a Hallmark Christmas movie. Checks a lot of revisionist Frank Capra boxes. Ultimately, this is weird. Yes, there are some “wink, wink” laughs, but trying to ride the fence and have it both ways leaves a WTF feeling at the end. Netflix is smart to try and seize some of the Christmas movie business. There’s more opportunities to binge there without commercials, which is what I assume the demo would want. And perhaps efforts to distinguish itself from the tropes of the Hallmarks will feature more goofiness and originality. Is this movie bad? Yes. But it’s an interesting failure.