Fans are losing it over Netflix’s ‘hot snowman’ Christmas film starring 00s movie icon

Netflix look to person outdone themselves already up of the festive season, with a cheesy Christmas movie based astir a magical snowman with chiselled abs.

Obviously.

What’s more, it stars histrion and 00s icon Lacey Chabert, who changeable to fame as Gretchen successful Mean Girls 20 years ago, other Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams and Amanda Seyfried.

Since then, she’s carved a caller niche retired arsenic the Queen of Hallmark movies, appearing successful implicit 30 of the channel’s films, which are romances with saccharine but often formulaic plotlines.

Some of these person people besides been acceptable astatine Christmastime too, similar The Sweetest Christmas, Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe, Christmas Waltz and Christmas astatine Castle Hart.

So it’s a earthy acceptable for Netflix – who person fixed a level to her former co-star Lohan excessively with seasonal rom-coms – to swoop successful and drawback her for 1 of their Christmas flicks.

And this 1 appears to tick each the preposterous boxes required with the accustomed marque of required schmaltz being sprinkled implicit a movie wherever a grieving widow magically brings a blistery snowman to life!

Yep, Frosty the Snowman has good and genuinely been made implicit from his days of ember eyes, a corncob tube and a much accepted rounded snowball shape.

And this section snowfall sculpture conscionable happens to beryllium of a bare antheral successful the classical benignant with a genuinely awesome physique.

After Kathy (Chabert) jokingly lends this nude snowman her scarf, she gets a caller position connected beingness erstwhile she meets Jack (Schitt’s Creek’s Dustin Milligan), a good-looking and oddly acquainted man.

He causes rather a commotion astir municipality arsenic helium clambers connected roofs and offers to propulsion cars topless, charming locals with his whimsical and upbeat nature, arsenic good arsenic attracting the ire of Sheriff Robinson (Craig Robinson), who takes his occupation a small excessively seriously.

Also successful the formed is Brooklyn 99 prima Joe Lo Truglio, Katy Mixon and Lauren Holly, arsenic good arsenic a cameo from Selling Sunset’s Christelle Stause.

While the premise of Hot Frosty does dependable alternatively ridiculous, its stars importune it has much of a meaningful and weighty connection than you mightiness think.

‘We’re not going to spoil it, but… Kathy’s backstory is thing that really grounds Hot Frosty successful a spot much of a bully realistic, melodramatic tone. Then, each of this benignant of fun, silly worldly occurs afterward,’ Milligan told Netflix’s Tudum. 

Chabert added: ‘It’s truly comic and airy and lovely. But determination is besides a throughline of a batch of heart, and each of these characters are benignant of going done thing — whether it’s thing much comedic oregon thing much profoundly emotionally rooted.’

Also, let’s look it, this benignant of movie is precisely what astir Christmas rom-com fans privation served to them, and the anticipation is already high.

‘This is EXACTLY what I want, Netflix. EXACTLY,’ posted Jen connected X, portion Karlita swooned: ‘Ahhhhh omg omg halt November 13th cannot travel soon enough.’

‘LESS LOGIC MORE HIMBOS,’ insisted @Aimdiddles arsenic she celebrated the trailer being released, arsenic Jennifer Wadella wrote: ‘Netflix is going hard for the holidays and I’m truthful excited.’

‘Movie of the Year IDC,’ announced @modytalkmovies , portion Angi simply announced: ‘This volition heal me.’

Amil jokingly added of Netflix: ‘The Lacey Chabert casting is simply a nonstop attack, they’re coming for the Hallmark vacation crown.’

It is joined connected Netflix’s festive slate by Meet Me Next Christmas starring Cristina Milian and Pentatonix, Chad Michael Murray successful The Merry Gentlemen and Lohan successful Our Little Secret.

Following connected from Netflix seasonal streaming films Falling for Christmas successful 2022 and Irish Wish earlier this year, this clip Lohan stars arsenic Avery, who is forced to walk Christmas nether the aforesaid extortion arsenic her ex Logan (Ian Harding), aft discovering that their existent partners are siblings.

And adjacent better, Hot Frosty adjacent includes a motion to some Falling for Christmas and Mean Girls arsenic Jack is shown watching it astatine the extremity of the trailer, lone for Chabert-as-Kathy to say: ‘That looks conscionable similar a miss I went to precocious schoolhouse with.’

Perfection.

Hot Frosty streams exclusively connected Netflix from Wednesday, November 13.

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