A Frosty Affair (2015) Reviews

• Not bad, not good. Heroine was terrible

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  (Some spoilers but nothing major) When you sit down for a movie like this, you know what to expect. Saccharine sweetness that makes you want to roll your eyes but sometimes these movies surprise you so, like me, you remain ever hopeful. Unfortunately the biggest problem in this movie is Kate. Annoying Kate who thinks she knows everything. Invites herself to go on this journey with Redford and then is absolutely NOT helpful at all. Nearly sets the barn on fire, attracts a bear to their belongings because of course she doesn't listen to him. She can do it all, but does she help carry anything along the way? Nope. Does she listen to him about the ice? Not even a little bit. This movie would have been tolerable if Kate had been a better person.

• For a schoolteacher, this character was just plain dumb.

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  This is a RomCom Christmas movie, so everything about it predicatable. What makes one movie more interesting than the next is how actors portray their characters. Schoolteacher Kate (Jewel Staite) has a problem. She is to be married in a couple days, but has been snowed in, and her flight has been grounded. Enter the handsome, moody guy with a snowmobile...and his own agenda. He COULD get her to the church in three days, but doesn't wanna. After that, blah, blah, blah, then probably a happy ending. I say probably because I turned it off after 26 minutes. Why? Because Kate was beyond lacking common sense: she was just plain dumb. It's an actor's job to portray a character in certain ways. If Kate has been an airhead, everything idiotic would have been understandable, but she was an elementary schoolteacher, meaning she was a college graduate who possessed at least a little common sense. No college graduate would have done the moronic things she did, e.g. walk to the small airport after a record snowfall, expecting the single engine planes to be flying; unpack her suitcase looking for her phone, dropping all her clothes on the ground, leaving them there; using the pull cord that starts the 50 year-old snowmobile engine, then drop it on the ground with a shrug as if to say "I don't know what that's for"; steer the 50 year-old snowmobile in a flying leap off an embankment instead of easing down the slope gently, thereby rendering it uselesss; try to light fire logs directly using a single match, even after she was told where the kindling was; finds a bottle of lighter fluid, then squirts it not only on the logs, but all around the hearth area as well; staring at the fire that's burning on her coat sleeve, requiring Mr. handsome-but-moody to throw her in the snow. I can be entertained by airhead-lacks-common sense, but I cannot painfully watch college-educated-yet-completely-dumb. It's as if Jewel Staite was just trying too hard to make it work.

• Canada Locations Look Great- Plot Falls Short

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  The story here is pretty much standard in that a woman on her way to her wedding gets into a crisis with another man. The man gets her out of the crisis and as she gets closer and closer to him and her wedding, she has second thoughts. The trouble is that the script seems very unnatural. I mean, the crisis makes the main characters both look stupid, even though they are supposed to be intelligent. The sequences where they fall in the thin ice water and build a fire to save their lives do not seem practical. The shock of the ice water would have killed most people. Then, the fact that they are carrying a cell phone with them the entire time and do not call for help when they are lost? Hard to explain that one. Of course then there is the strange attempt by the younger sister of trying to seduce her fiance while her sister is out of touch in a crisis adventure. The fiance character seems shallow and unreal. To me, the Canadian scenery is easily the best thing about the film. I would appreciate the actors more if they had been given a better script to work with. Like the crisis, the script runs out of gas.

• A Winter Horror Film

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  So this movie is lowkey a horror movie. If you would just change out the silly quirky music in the background and put something a little more ominous, you would see why. First thing first is WOW. The sexual tension you feel from the main characters is enough to make the lower lumbar in your spine to give you that feeling of twisting and clinching as if you are about to get a spinal tap. The second thing I have to say is WOW. Redford is pretty hot. With that said, he is the ONLY character in this movie you will like. Let's dive in, shall we? It took us a while to figure out that they were possibly in Canada. We assumed that these people were in Alaska or maybe somewhere like North Dakota, but to make the story feel a little more adventurous, wild and interesting, we're going to say they were in Maine. The movie starts out of this remote, nearly abandoned town in the far Northern part of Maine called Sorenson Lake. A typically annoying type of false genuine behaviored woman named Kate decided that she need to run off to this town and teach the children her knowledge she brought up there with her from her "big little city" of Snowy Pines in Southern Maine. Her school year is over and they are all throwing Kate a party at this elementary school. At first, there is a children's play or something and they all of the sudden just disappear. That's when this party starts getting a little edgier with the apparent spiking of the punch and this one teacher is gyrating her hips in wide circles against a chair and twerking. You don't really know what's actually going until the teacher stops gyrating and clearly exhausted, walks up to Kate out of breath to explain she is getting an award from the equally party animal principal. Kate says thanks and disappears into a classroom with an iPad to where she starts explaining to her insanely boring and creep fiancé, Brad, about how excited she is to get on the plane tomorrow and run to Snowy Pines to get married. Brad, however, seems a little disinterested and falsely pretends to care. He states that he has to leave and we can only conclude that someone is under the table doing something bad. Never proven, but a really strong theory and you will see why I think this. Kate then goes home to get some shut eye before she has to catch her plane. Overnight there is a raging blizzard that releases havoc on Sorenson Lake and now she is worried she won't be able to catch her plane. That's when she proceeds to throw her luggage above the heap of snow blockading her door and climbs out of her house (never shuts the door) and then realizes her car is buried. Here you would think that she knew her flight had to be canceled, but this is when it gets grand. She WALKS to this shack and it leaves you wondering what is she doing here? Turns out this is the "airport" she was going to. Well there's no pilot or plane there and she is left lost, scared and confused. But things get interesting when this strikingly gorgeous and mysterious man shows up to obviously STEAL something from this "airport" and Kate becomes very demanding of him. He's like "hey back off" I have to go somewhere and she is being an absolute brat and forcing him to take her to Snowy Pines. You will never really understand how she knows for sure that he is also going to Snowy Pines, but it ends up all too convenient. You would also think that these two would already know each other coming from the same small town in where I like to think is Southern Maine, but I guess not? I guess they all figured out a way to absolutely ignore each other. Redford just makes like a lobster and gets the shell out of dodge, once again leaving Kate alone. She manages to run up to a house of one of the children she taught and asks to borrow their snowmobile. However, in the magical terrain of what I'm calling Maine, she somehow manages to catch up to Redford who is lost. He knows she is following him and his mildly helping her, but sabotaging her at the same time. This is where the sexual tension starts heating the hell up and you're looking around thinking wow, I'm so inspired to love. Redford jumps his snowmobile off this hill and Kate pulls up and says "what the heck man?" He says "WTF GO HOME." She decides she is going to jump this huge hill in this mediocre snowmobile that she either borrow, stole or bought (you never really figure that out) and crashes it. She falls off and doesn't move. She's clearly fine, but Redford freaks out and immediately gets on top of her and starts unbuttoning her clothes. Not really sure if that was needed for the CPR process and it seemed a little melodramatic and presumptuous to assume CPR was needed, but she wakes up and she's like "omg get off." She stomps, whines and cries some more about needing to get to Snowy Pines. Redford says "FINE. ONE BAG ONLY" and we learn that this is going to be a wild trip for three days. In this time, NO ONE of Kate's family is concerned. Kate could be dead and they haven't heard from her at all and they are just going on with day-to-day business as if this wedding wasn't postponed at the last minute due to severe weather. We meet her ghoulish, even creepier father, who is OBSESSED with Brad. Kate's mother is definitely on some kind of happy pills and is pretending to be ok, but we know she's miserable in her life. Kate's younger sister, Cindy, is trying to seduce the hell out of Brad and her father keeps giving her little slaps on the wrist about while simultaneously encouraging her to with slight nods and winks. It's my theory that Brad has cheated on Kate before with Cindy when they were on the iPad, but I don't know if these producers and screenwriters are smart enough to come up with that idea. So just a rough theory I'm working with here. There's this scene where you all will cringe, but can't look away, because it's so bizarre. Kate's dad forces Brad to take his shoes and socks off and forcibly pushes to him press hit feet super hard into some carpet and share a nearly-sexual moment with him on a chair. After that, Brad goes up to his room and falls into Cindy's seduction and accidentally breaks her nose. These people were a party for sure. Great personalities. Super lovely. So moving on back to the Kate and Redford's journey this is where the plot thickens to a possible horror movie. Redford is driving at night and decides that they need to break and enter to this seemingly fully-furnished and stocked "abandoned" home to sleep for the night. Redford asks Kate to start a fire in the fireplace and she then continues to act confused about it, starts dumping lighter fluid all over the places, sets her sleeve on fire which magically blew the roof off for a second. Redford, rolls his eyes and finds his first excuse to get naked. This makes Kate squirm but she can't get him off her mind now. Redford puts some clothes on and goes out to drop some deuces in the outhouse. While he is doing this we see this large figure with a gun come out and go into the house. We legitimately started getting terrified at this point, because we were like what the heck was that? Who is that? The owner of this house is an insane trapper who is pointing the gun at Kate and Redford. He's asking Redford to put a price on Kate's skin as if he were going to skin her alive and sell the pelt. Then finally Redford begs him to get her away and out of the house. Trapper agrees and then this is when things get kind of wacky. HE STARTS BEGGING REDFORD TO STAY AND HAVE SEX WITH HIM. He was about to force himself upon Redford until Kate stops it. Then Redford knocks him out and they run. That's when the trapper comes out crying and rolling on the ground talking about how lonely he was. We as the audience started feeling super sad for the trapper, because he is lonely. That's when our pal Derek had to remind us that the trapper was about to sexually abuse Redford and we like uh wait duh. Bye Trapper. Kate forces them to cross a frozen river where the ice breaks and nearly kills Redford. He has a seizure from hypothermia, but Kate makes a tiny fire that saves him. More canoodling and nudity happen here from Redford, but then Kate kept ruining it. She forced Redford to stop so she can pee. She makes him help her unzip the jumpsuit, because she REFUSES to take off the mittens she's wearing. A bear comes up. They have to play dead, the bear starts irrationally roaring, runs up to the snowmobile and eats their food and runs off pushing the snowmobile on it's side. INSTEAD OF TURNING THE SNOWMOBILE RIGHT SIDE UP THEY DECIDE IT'S BROKEN AND MUST CONTINUE ON FOOT. They decide they are going to break into another house. Kate gets caught by this giant naked man. He starts reasonably chasing them out while Kate steals food and alcohol. Redford manages to steal a tractor and the slowly zoom off. The tractor runs out of gas about 20 feet ahead and they continue on foot. They stumble on to this sex motel in the middle of nowhere that somehow is not-vacant except for one room. This whole time by the way, Kate has been pestering Redford about this woman named "Jodi" he is visiting and she keeps sneaking through his stuff when he's not looking. Kate is finally about to give herself up to him, because they are now in love with each other and Redford is clearly way hotter and way cooler than her creepy fiancé back at home. However, Kate completely ruins this when she starts creeping through his things again and starts YELLING and BERATING Redford over having a life. From here they magically get back to Snowy Pines and Kate questioning her decisions and her mom is telling her to not marry Brad. Redford turns out to have a stepdaughter he cares about from a previous marriage and Jodi is his mom he was visiting. Kate says no at the wedding and runs outside where Redford is waiting. They kiss and drive off. Brad hooks up with Cindy. The dad winks. This movie would be a 10 if all of the characters weren't horrible.

• Absolutely adorable

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  I grew up in Northern Minnesota so I was very appreciative of all the truly real scenes (snowdrifts up to the top of your front door). I loved this movie. Both characters are charming & real. They're kind & loveable & this film made my heart smile!