hellholehorror Not the most adventurous but nothing bad either. It is pretty silly and unimaginative. It is a children's film but it is quite fun for an adult. Ernest is the only memorable character, all the others are instantly forgettable. He's not even the best children's entertainment character in movies, Pee-Wee is my favourite!

gwnightscream Jim Varney and Eartha Kitt star in this 1991 comedy sequel. The late, Varney is back as goofy guy, Ernest P. Worrell who now works as a sanitation worker. He learns that his ancestor cursed the Town, Briarville long ago when entombing an evil Troll that attacks children. On Hallow's Eve, Ernest unwittingly awakes it and fights against it along with it's minions learning that Milk destroys them. Kitt (Boomerang) plays Old lady Hackmore, a strange woman who helps Ernest save the Town. This isn't a bad film that's basically a send-up of horror & B-movies. It has some goofy & spooky moments and Varney was great as Ernest as usual. I recommend this.

bug76 "Boy, I sure hope you're from Keebler". That line had me cracking up every time. I have to say: Trantor was and still is the ugliest thing I've ever seen. I remember this movie fondly as a kid and as an adult I still appreciate Varney's clean brand of humor. The moral: "Unconditional love is the strongest weapon of them all." Phineas Worrell managed to bury Trantor, having the roots of a tree be its prison but before they bury him in dirt, he curses the Worrell blood line by having them get dumber and dumber. Enter Ernest P. Worrell, not very bright but full of heart. When the bullies tear down the kids' playhouse, Ernest helps them find a tree so they can have the 'high ground'. Unfortunately, he goes and picks the one tree that has the imprisoned troll, Trantor. Old Lady Hackmore(Kitt) finds out and flees from the place and Ernest goes after her. Having returned, Ernest explains to the children about what Lady Hackmore has told him about the curse. Being Ernest, he says the one thing he shouldn't have: "Yay, I call thee forth Trantor" and knocks on the tree 3 times, thus releasing the evil troll. After being released, he starts going after the children to turn them into wooden dolls to 'feed' his army of trolls that begin sprouting from the tree. But only a Worrell can stop him. Lady Hackmore shows Ernest a book that tells him how he can rid the town of this troll. "Thoust can destroyeth a troll with MI_K". The only thing Ernest can think of is MIAK, which we know doesn't work. Kenny finds out that it is actually milk that can destroy the trolls. And how clever, the brand of milk used is Purity, the brand Ernest hawked in his commercials. Ernest becomes angry after Trantor turns Rimshot into a wooden doll and vows to kill Trantor. After arriving, the pods started to drop and many more trolls started 'hatching'. When the kids arrive, they begin shooting these trolls with milk from toy guns. Eventually, Trantor is left but he managed to summon the demons to make him stronger and therefore, milk would not kill him. Thankfully, Ernest figures out that unconditional love would be the only thing to kill Trantor. He goes from angry to happy in the blink of an eye. He tells the troll, "Aw, you're so cute" and kisses old Booger Lips with all the love in the world, which makes Ernest pull an 'Ewwwww' and I had to pull an 'Ewww' myself. That loving little smooch ended up destroying the troll and all the kids and Rimshot turned back to normal. This is a great Halloween movie for the whole family to enjoy. It's good, wholesome fun. No foul language and no innuendos. The trolls are scary but not enough to scar a child for life. They'll have plenty of time for that if they watch the movies Hollywood is putting out today.

ccthemovieman-1 This was the first "Ernest" movie, I think, that I watched and I was surprised that it wasn't as stupid as I thought it was or the title convinced me it would be. It really wasn't "stupid" until the last 20 minutes, but a lot of movies get really dumb in the last half hour.For most of the movie, it was nice, lighthearted fun that - cliché aside - is fun for the "whole family." There is nary a bad one word in this movie and it's old-fashioned slapstick fun and about as innocent as it gets. Having said that, I realize a lot of people would still consider the movie as a dumb one but I always liked Jim Varney and laughed at the most of the stuff he did, beginning with those famous TV commercials of his.In the last 30 years, how many comedies do you see without a tons of sex and profanity? Almost none......so give "Ernest" some slack.