YMMV / The Legend of Frosty the Snowman

• Contested Sequel: To be expected of a sequel to a holiday classic, mainly due to the Darker and Edgier mood. Also, there's the fact that this film doesn't appear to be set in the same continuity as the original special.
• Heartwarming Moments: Mr. Tinkerton's reunion with Frosty in Legend of Frosty the Snowman after years of thinking he had made the snowman up. And all made possible by his younger son, who frequently felt pushed aside for his "perfect" older brother and ignored in the wake of his father's mayoral duties.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • There was a Christmas short on Nickelodeon called "Patrick The Snowman", with Patrick playing a character like Frosty The Snowman. His voice actor, Bill Fagerbakke, would voice the actual Frosty in this movie.
  • The narrator carves a "Tommy + Sara" Sweetie Graffiti heart into a tree at one point. While on first watch this looks like Shipper on Deck, it's actually a bit of foreshadowing since the narrator is a grown-up Tommy.
• Informed Wrongness: While Walter's mother is pretty overbearing, adding to Walter's anxiety, the narrative treats her worry when she discovers Walter waltzing in from the cold after dark, when she thought he was in his room, as a rather silly reaction (she faints over the slightest bit of disobedience) to a harmless bit of mischief. Meanwhile, most normal parents would be concerned if their child had snuck outside, seemingly alone, on a cold, snowy night without them realizing it. It doesn't help that Walter later gets in trouble for breaking town curfew rather than for safety reasons.
• Moral Event Horizon: Principal Pankley crosses this when in addition to orchestrating the obligatory Disney Death of Frosty in the movie, also puts Walter in danger by having them skate on thin ice, and expresses a callous disregard about it to Walter.
• Nightmare Fuel: When Plankley gets Walter to convince Frosty into skating on thin ice, and the ice breaks, melting Frosty when he falls in the water. It's unnerving because Plankley had basically made Walter an accessory to murder. Walter's pretty heartbroken about what happened to Frosty, as he had no idea what Plankley really wanted. Gets worse when you take into account Plankley also put Walter in danger to, with a complete Lack of Empathy to his own student !
• Tear Jerker: The little comic Tommy finds quickly takes a turn for the sad when, after having tons of fun with Frosty, the boy is told by his magician father (who appears to be Professor Hinkle) that real magic, "the kind you can't explain", doesn't exist and when he tries to find Frosty after that, the snowman has disappeared entirely. As Tommy reads on, he discovers Frosty disappeared because another boy was jealous of Frosty's kindness to the main character and stole Frosty's hat and locked it in a trunk. Then Tommy realizes, to his horror, that the boys are actually his father and the assistant mayor, the latter of whom is constantly pressuring Mr. Tinkerton to sap fun and life out of the town with rules. He's noticeably shaken by this revelation.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: The Mayor. While he does undergo Character Development, he spends the most of the film as an Obliviously Evil Control Freak. The most notable example is him neglecting his son Tommy while putting his other son Charlie on a pedestal resulting in Tommy's inferiority complex... and then later neglecting Charlie too and showing more open affection toward his clipboard than toward either of his sons!
• Values Dissonance: A minor one, but the narrator at one point carves Sweetie Graffiti onto a tree, a practice that has become more frowned-upon since 2005 since arborists have pointed out this can leave the trees vulnerable to disease, pests, and deeper damage.

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