#100. The Second Chancers later build a tepee only to see it get burned. "After the film came out, I saw a headline in Variety that said 'Hick Flick Hits in Sticks," Butler remembers. Echoing Kikakee's ancient testimonial pow wow, Ernest faces down Krader and apparently passes the age old test as Krader takes three shots at him, missing every time. Disney stayed on board for the first three post-Camp volumes Ernest Saves Christmas, Ernest Goes to Jail (filmed at the old state penitentiary) and Ernest Scared Stupid. 1.3 Unknown Extras. How can he escape? They also released it for the first time on Blu-ray on March 29, 2011 in a single disc Double Feature set along with Ernest Goes to Jail, and later on its own Blu-ray on June 13, 2011. "The park was blown away by the turnout that first year they weren't expecting as many people as we had," he remembers. A film about the U.S. soldiers in a war movie run afoul of real-life drug traders in the Vietnamese jungle. The boys are initially unenthusiastic, but start to show a little respect during a campfire session when Nurse St. And it's definitely not coming to Disney+ in the US because reasons. [5], Ernest Goes to Camp grossed $6.2 million in 1541 theaters its opening weekend. Robin Hood (1973) - Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, David Hand. "He gave the park the rights to use the Kamp Kikakee logo for temporary tattoos and sticker and things like that, so the park was always very happy to host him at Ernest Day and make his year. Upon realizing that the Chief does not even understand English, Krader manipulates Ernest into obtaining the Chief's signature under false pretenses. 1.2 Uncredited Cast. "Just recently there was a Saturday Night Live sketch about short-ass movies, and they had a segment that was all of the Ernest films," he notes. Chief St. Indian Chief: Iron Eyes Cody. The Prestige (2006) Touchstone/Warner Bros. 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And Buster was screaming back, 'The little plastic ones don't move like real turtles!' Sadly, he says that no eggs erroneous or otherwise were ever fired out of the cannon that the prop team built. Ernest then plugs Krader's hunting rifle with his finger and laughs in his face, signaling Krader's defeat, while Krader's lawyer comments to himself that Krader has outdone himself. Seeing that took me aback, because I thought, 'Oh, my God. Along the way, a series of hijinks ensue. Director John R. Cherry III Writers John R. 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Meanwhile, a mining corporation run by Sherman Krader wants to mine the petrocite at Kikakee, but Chief St. I was wondering what I had walked into when Buster turned to me and said, 'Oh, and here's the guy who can play Eddie.' Ernest Saves Christmas (1988), made for $6 million, earned $28 million. Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) Full Movie Daniela Mary89 Follow Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) Full Movie Click: http://tinyurl.com/p8fuzge Movie Storyline: A group of juvenile criminals is sent for vacation to Kamp Kikakee. From "A Star Is Born" and "Swing Time" to "Chicago" and "West Side Story," here are 55 musicals that represent the height and the incredible range of the genre. But the other part of me was like, 'Wow what a tribute.'". (Funnily enough, he was a latecomer to Kamp Kikakee, only seeing Ernest Goes to Camp for the first time as an adult.) Ernest Goes to Camp 24 Metascore 1987 1 hr 33 mins Comedy PG Watchlist Jim Varney as a janitor-turned-counselor whose tenure turns into one accident after another. . The group improvises some explosive weapons. Cherry and Varney debuted the character in 1980, and his rapid-fire down home patter peppered with oft-repeated catchphrases like "Hey Vern!" The group stops him with Ernest's motorized maintenance cart filled with explosives, Ernest then knocks out Bronk. It was my day gig as a writer all those years ago, and to have people say things like that now is incredible. Head Counselor Tipton assigns Kikakee's most experienced counselor, Ross Stennis, to be the boys' counselor. This film also marks Iron Eyes Cody's final appearance on screen. Hey Vern, It's My Family Album, Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Goes_to_Camp&oldid=1137514521, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Eddy Schumacher as Counselor Ross Stennis, Buck Ford as Mr. Elliott Blatz, Krader's Attorney, Larry Black as Mr. Tipton, the Head Counselor of Kamp Kikikee, This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 01:17. on the Internet. But his presence will be felt in the Ernest Day footage that he and Butler hope to capture in June, not to mention all archival footage he left behind. Not surprisingly, it did its biggest business in Tennessee, where Cherry filled out the cast and crew with local hires from Nashville and surrounding towns. Is Ernest Goes to Camp a Disney movie? The film's first DVD release was on September 3, 2002 from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. ZU VERKAUFEN! You also see that he wasn't very high off the ground. "Last year, I met a guy who showed me a tattoo of Ernest he had on his calf," he says, laughing. Cloud. "He had alienated the other actors with his aggressive attitude," the director wrote. Ernest Goes to School is a 1994 American comedy film written and directed by Coke Sams and starring Jim Varney. As Ernest tries to rebuild the Kamp Kikakee sign, he ultimately falls and then the sign falls on him. The writing is pretty hilarious, as long as you free your mind to it's ultimate stupidity. A second Blu-ray double feature with Camp Nowhere was released on March 26, 2013. "A lot of our stuff was prop humor, and the Eggs Erroneous dish was an example of us going to the prop department and saying, 'Let's make something really nasty,'" Butler recalls. national campaigns for Sprite and Chex cereal, Cassandra Peterson's Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's The Blues Brothers, scene where we were going to put parachutes on live turtles, being haunted by the ghost of Ernest P. Worrell. It was also the first "Ernest" film to be distributed by Touchstone Pictures. "They told me, 'Ernest is smooth down there, like a doll,'" Butler says, laughing. Long ago, a young Plains warrior is tested for initiation by being the target of three different weapons. He was created by the Nashville advertising agency Carden and Cherry and was used in various local television ad campaigns. Speaking of surreal, here's the wild story of how Ernest Goes to Camp got made on Walt Disney's dime, and inspired an event that brings Ernest fans from around the world back to the character's Tennessee stomping grounds. Add it to your Watchlist to receive updates and availability notifications. (2000) Touchstone/Universal, Jett Jackson: The Movie (2001) Alliance Atlantis/WildBrain Studios, Its a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) NBC/MGM, The Sweatbox: Behind-the-scenes of The Emperors New Groove (2002) Xingu Films/Buena Vista, A Wrinkle in Time (2003) Echo Bridge Home Entertainment/Disney, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2003-2005) Lucasfilm/Cartoon Network, Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky, Napoleon Dynamite (2004) MTV Films/Paramount/Searchlight, Modern Marvels: Walt Disney World (2005) History Channel/Al Roker Productions, Dream on Silly Dreamer (2005) WestLund Productions. 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