Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance counselor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents while stopping a shady strip mining company from closing the camp as well.
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Ernest goes to Camp is a good movie. It stars the late Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell. In this film, he works at Kamp Kikakee as a janitor. What he really wants to be is a counselor. He gets that wish, but there is a group of troubled boys to deal with. In the meantime, a mining company is about to destroy the camp! It's up to our old buddy Ernest to save the place he cares so much. I like the music in it mostly. I love the "Brave Hearts" song and Ernest even sings "Gee I'm Glad It's Rainin." I would say it's the best film Jim Varney has made. I know some people these days don't know this movie very well. If you are new to the Ernest series, start with this one. You will enjoy it. Know What I Mean Vern?
Wow is all I can say for Jim Varneys master piece of a movie. It brought me to tears I laughed and learned to love. Earnest proves that even bad kids are good people. The camp chef was hilarious like when he made icky food and he told earnest to open up he said hinerho it made me die laughing. Snappy the turtle I think is one of Earnests best pets. I love this movie When Earenest became a warrior that was tear movingly great. when erenest jumped in to the poison ivy I just about died laughing When earnest cleaned the toilets that was hilarious. It's a movie great to watch with a troubled teen it will changed their outlook on life. Watch this movie with just about any one its a tear wrenching gut busting heart touching movie. This movie is GREAT!
This is one of the worst of the "Ernest films," starring the likeble Jim Varney. Good 'ole "Ernest B. Worrell" might be a good guy - and Varney was a wonderful comedian almost all of us loved, even if just for his famous television commercials - but I didn't really care for this movie.It was mostly the obnoxious kids in here that ruined things for me. They weren't in the "Midstate Boys Detention Camp" for no reason: they were nasty. Oh, all that is but one: the black kid, of course. The white kids are all bad. Can you say "political correctness?" Can you save "reverse racism?" Sorry to see that racial nonsense in an Ernest, but there's more Liberal baloney in here, too.Football player (and no actor) Lyle Azado plays one of the bad guys. That also tells you something about the quality of this lamebrain effort."Ernest" has a mission in this movie: "Shaping and molding youthful minds into a focused world view." Yeah, right.Still, I miss Jim Varney.
Maybe the Ernest movies had no cinematic value, but you have to accept them for what they are: pure, unadulterated fun. In this case, Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is working at a summer camp, where some "second chance" kids have just arrived. Most of the movie is an excuse to have Ernest get into a series of embarrassing situations, but then he has to try and protect the camp from an unctuous developer (John Vernon).Like I said, you have to accept the Ernest movies, if only to watch him mess everything up all the time. He's like Gilligan: he always tries his best, but always manages to bungle things. It's quite certain that Jim Varney will be missed.