As children`s entertainment, ”Ernest Saves Christmas” barely scrapes by-it`s an uninspired though reasonably brisk 90 minutes-but amateur anthropologists should have a great time. The popular ...

A few stray points concerning Ernest Saves Christmas that are either of vital ... filmed this in Orlando because at various points, Jim Varney's face is soaked in sweat - you can tell they ...

But even rewatching the film as a bitter old 40-something, I can’t help but be charmed by its off-kilter sincerity and even Varney’s mugging. Ernest Saves Christmas may not be the greatest ...

Ernest Saves Christmas (Touchstone, 90 minutes, PG, $89.95): Filmed last year in Central Florida, this good-natured kiddie comedy stars Jim “KnoWhutImean?” Varney as Ernest P. Worrell ...

Worrell," to use the full name of the denim-vested comedic pest created by actor Jim Varney ... promising ("Ernest Saves Christmas") to the dubious ("Ernest Goes to Africa"). Varney, a chain ...

Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell, on set shooting a commercial circa 1986. Varney’s next film, Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) would go on to be the highest-grossing Ernest movie, making just over ...

Ernest Saves Christmas is the second entry in the Ernest series and the third film in which the eponymous character appears. The cast includes Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell, Douglas Seale as ...

Bill Byrge, who showed up as the quiet but feisty Bobby on a kids TV show and in four of the goofy Ernest comedies that starred Jim Varney ... workers in Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) and as ...

Jim Varney as Ernest P. Worrell, on set shooting a commercial circa 1986. Varney’s next film, Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) would go on to be the highest-grossing Ernest movie, making just over ...