![]() ![]() Joe accepts the part but feels uncomfortable swearing in front of the kids on set. Meanwhile, Marty presses Joe to move on from his children’s show career, shave his beard, and instead land a part in a movie as a father and family man, since he is good at working with kids however, it turns out to be a horror film titled Christmas Slay about an alien which terrorizes a bunch of children on Christmas Eve this offends Santa so deeply that he punches the director in the eye. Ernest disguises himself as an Apopka snake rancher who sneaks Santa into a movie studio and speaks to a security guard about delivering the snakes to people who direct horror films. On Christmas Eve, having learned of Santa’s imprisonment, Ernest poses as Astor Clementh, an employee of the governor and Harmony as the governor’s niece Mindy, and they help Santa escape from jail by convincing the police chief that Santa believing that he is Santa Claus is “infectious insanity” and he must be taken to solitary confinement. He and Harmony immediately set off to find Santa and return it. ![]() Ernest discovers the magic power of the sack, and realizes that the owner really is Santa Claus. Meanwhile, Ernest goes over to his friend Vern’s house to put up a Christmas tree, much to Vern’s distress (as with the original commercials that first introduced Ernest, the audience never sees Vern’s face and only his point of view). Joe does not believe Santa’s story and Marty has him arrested. He begins to worry as he then discovers that he had left his sack in the cab, and becomes more discouraged as he realizes he is becoming forgetful in his old age (he’s 151 years old, as his passport shows he was born in 1837). Santos,” and continues to call him by that name, even when he tells him his real name. Marty misunderstands Santa’s name, thinking he said “Mr. Ernest meets Santa Claus and helps him in his search for a successor. Santa arrives at the Orlando Children’s Museum to talk to Joe, but is interrupted and rebuffed by Joe’s agent Marty Brock. ![]() As a dejected Ernest leaves the taxi garage, his former boss throws out Santa’s sack, which it turns out Santa had left behind. The decision ultimately gets Ernest fired. When they get to their destination, Santa possesses no legal currency (only play money), so in his giving Christmas spirit, Ernest lets him ride for free. While they are driving, a runaway teenage girl (Noelle Parker) calling herself Harmony Starr joins Ernest and Santa in the cab. Those three little words, Please and Thank You.” It got cancelled three weeks before and Joe must settle for a new job reading stories to children. Joe had previously hosted a children’s TV program named “Uncle Joey’s Treehouse” in the Orlando area similar to Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood with emphasis on manners and integrity with the catchphrase “They never get old. Ernest was already well established via a slew of commercials and a Saturday morning TV show when he rolled into Orlando to shoot his second feature film, 1988s Ernest Saves Christmas.This outing. Ernest later picks up Santa Claus, who tells Ernest that he is on his way to inform a local celebrity named Joe Carruthers (Oliver Clark) that he has been chosen to be the new Santa Claus. He takes a passenger to the airport, but speeds and the passenger falls out of the taxi. Worrell (Jim Varney) is working as a taxi driver. This, combined with Cherry's staggeringly inept direction, is not unlike watching 91 solid minutes of commercials, with Varney's resolutely unfunny zaniness interspersed with tooth-rottingly saccharine messages from the sponsor (Christmas is nice, children are nice, etc).A man who claims to be Santa Claus (Douglas Seale) arrives at the Orlando International Airport on December 23. Jim Varney delivers both a ton of laughs and holiday cheer as the lovable tramp Ernest P. At the centre of the film is the said taxi-driver, Ernest P Worrell (Varney), a twisted, cheap imitation of the young Jerry Lewis, whose comic turns make Paul Hogan's repertoire seem a galaxy of creativity. Ernest Saves Christmas is a fun family film that's wildly entertaining and tremendously fun. When Santa decides that its time to retire, Ernest must help him recruit a has-been. Building on the successful performance of the first two Ernest movies, Varney made three more with Disney five others were. Not surpisingly, everyone thinks Mr Claus is a fruitcake, but with the help of a 'wacky' cab-driver and a 'streetwise' runaway girl, rampant festivity triumphs. Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), made for 6 million, earned 28 million. What can you expect from a cheap seasonal movie directed by an advertising executive and starring a character devised as a vehicle for selling American couch-potatoes anything from milk to financial services? Santa Claus (Seale) arrives in America (by plane) in search of Joe Carruthers (Clark), unemployed children's entertainer and heir apparent to Father Christmas' throne. ![]()
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