“Frozen Hot Boys” is a Thai “Cool Runnings,” a cringy goof of a fish-out-of-water comedy about tropical trouble-makers who make a name for themselves in competitive ice and snow sculpting.

Natapohn Tameeruks is Miss Chom, a bored vocational wood-carving teacher at the juvenile prison her mother runs. She’d love to get to Sapporo, Japan. And when one miscreant named Jab (Nuttawat Thanataviepraserth) with a gift for woodcarving shows up among her new “saplings,” ready to be reformed, she sees her chance — competitive ice sculpting.

Chatchai Chinnasri, Sadanont Durongkavarojana, Punnanon Treewonnakil and Piyaphong Dammunee play the rest of the team, characters whom four screenwriters word-processed into stock “types.”

There’s Toom (Dammunee), roly poly enough to consider a career in sumo wrestling, the nerdy assistant Boy (Chinnasri) to Miss Chom whom everybody underestimates, the kid (Durongkavarojana) who knows the prison’s cliques and rules for survival and the hunky, hotheaded kid (Treewonnakil) from a rival clique whom we see — in flashback — stabbing his stepfather to death.

Yes, there are murderers in this crew. And you have to be more than a little drunk to find editing between a kid jabbing a bloody knife into an unseen victim and that same kid turning his stabbing into ice chiseling cute or funny.

The picture adheres to the “Big Contest” comedy formula, but two directors and four screenwriters make little of the comic possibilities of kids who’ve never seen snow experiencing the cold of Winter Olympics host city Sapporo.

Training for the weather in Sapporo by shoving the kids into a refrigerator truck is almost funny.

“Shirts OFF!” in Thai, or dubbed into English is meant to be a laugh line.

Most every character has daddy or step-daddy issues. The picture hints at a possible attraction between the mature-for-his-age Jab and immature for her age Miss Chom, but avoids that trap.

The pollyannaish “Everybody deserves a second chance” and “Let’s carve a PHOENIX” to symbolize that messaging is just weak. The pace of this comedy, a film of near laughs and long interludes before anything else remotely funny happens, is too slack to pass muster outside of Thailand.

Still, the cast is game, which always counts for something. It wasn’t a hard movie to watch, as blandly predictable as it is. But reviewing movies from several Around the World with Netflix cultures is a real chore because of cultural traditions re: movie credits.

“Frozen Hot Boys” doesn’t ID the leads by the characters they play, a simple step in making your homegrown cinema suitable for export.

And breakout Thai star Tony Jaa or his agent had the right idea. Shorten that 10-12 syllable Thai name. No, you don’t have to “Anglicize” it. But a shorter name makes for a punchier brand.

International audiences, and especially movie critics, are going to pull their hair out typing Nuttawat Thanataviepraserth, Sadanont Durongkavarojana et al without a typo.

And if I misidentified an actor playing a character, my apologies. Since the film IDs supporting players with the characters they play, how about paying the leads the same courtesy?

Rating: TV-MA, violence, smoking, profanity

Cast: Natapohn Tameeruks, Nuttawat Thanataviepraserth, Chatchai Chinnasri, Sadanont Durongkavarojana, Punnanon Treewonnakil and Piyaphong Dammunee

Credits: Directed by Tanakit Kittiapithan and Naruebordee Wechakum, scripted by Rangsima Aukkarawiwat, Tanakit Kittiapithan, Alinda Peerakat and Pruch Neamsri