Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)
Genre: Family / Comedy
Duration: 92 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: John R. Cherry III
Stars: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo and John Vernon
IMDb score:
5,5 (13.533)
Releasedate: 22 May 1987
Ernest Goes to Camp plot
A group of young criminals are sent to Camp Krikakee for punishment. The clumsy Ernest P. Worrell has to take care of them there, although he can hardly take care of himself. When a mining organization wants to tear down the Camp, they help the Indian owner of the Camp to prevent this.
Actors and actresses
Ernest P. Worrell
Nurse St. Cloud
Sherman Krader
Bronk Stinson (Foreman)
Jake
Eddy
Old Indian Chief
Bobby Wayne
Crutchfield
Bubba Vargas
Reviews & comments
dave
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- 1079 messages
- 885 votes
Let's be clear: this is a bad movie. But he doesn't deserve such a high place in the flop 100.
Ernest's role is questionable. Should I laugh or cry about it? His idiotic behavior gets boring quickly. What bothered me the most is that he was constantly breaking the wall between him and the audience by either talking out loud to himself or looking directly into the camera.
Bland humor like standing on a ladder falling backwards is seen here as a fantastic joke. However, I laughed little, howled and howled. Situations like that little white cart that keeps moving on and on just become annoying in the long run.
There are also a lot of ridiculous scenes in it. Especially at the end. Turtles on parachutes? An exploding toilet? Bizarre.
Also, apparently the only way to save their camp was to blow it up completely. What the role of that crazy cook was in this is still a mystery to me. Staining clothes by shooting crushed food on them may be an ancient Native American war technique.
All in all, this isn't exactly a masterpiece. Rather an acceptable mistake. It's a shame it was so run down after that.
1 1/2
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Film Pegasus (moderator films)
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- 31491 messages
- 5627 votes
I used to know someone who had a soft spot for these kinds of films. He also liked the series around Revenge of the Nerds. Which probably says enough. Visually oriented humor where story no longer matters. Only that humor does not work and it even gets on the nerves in the long run. After having seen several films by Ernest, I already get the creeps when I see the word 'Ernest' in the title...
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Spetie
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- 38871 messages
- 8633 votes
Together with Ernest Saves Christmas, this film is one of the two films I've seen by Ernest and although you can never say for sure, I expect it to stay that way.
Just like the Christmas movie, this part has one major irritation point, and that is Ernest himself. Also in this film his role and behavior is at a certain point just too stupid for words, without it even wanting to be funny in the slightest. It's unbelievable that they made so many parts of this. Apparently it somehow resonated with certain people.
Once again I'm handing out the lowest possible score imaginable to an Ernest movie.
0.5*
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