The new film that has surpassed Hot Frosty is called The Merry Gentlemen, which stars Britt Robertson and Chad Michael Murray. It is a bit more scandalous than Hot Frosty given its subject matter. The official synopsis: “To save her parents' small-town performing venue, a former big-city dancer decides to stage an all-male, Christmas-themed revue.”

The holiday romantic comedy 'Hot Frosty' has shot to the number one spot among Netflix movies. Some adore its "sheer ridiculousness."

More specifically, the exterior scenes of the downtown area in Hot Frosty were filmed in Brockville, a city in Eastern Ontario in Canada. According to a local news report from the city’s HometownTV12, the ice sculpture competition set was constructed outside of the Brockville city courthouse.

The Netflix Christmas Universe (or NCU, as we like to call it) is coming together, with five new offerings this year almost all having a connection to another Christmas film on the streamer. But “Hot Frosty” also has a very explicit reference to “Mean Girls” — and it’s made by none other than Gretchen Wieners herself.

In this rom-com, Mean Girls icon Lacey Chabert, 42, stars as a woman who falls in love with a snowman, played by Schitt’s Creek’s Dustin Milligan, 39 – and, yes, that is in fact the actual plot. Before watching, I heard that the ‘sexy snowman’ film had a better Rotten Tomatoes score than Gladiator, and I just knew it was the film for me.

Netflix's top 10 movies has been taken over by Christmas flicks, with the festive rom-com Meet Me Next Christmas falling behind the current no. 1 movie Hot Frosty, which has pulled in 26 million views worldwide in the week ending November 17.

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