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Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
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11 October 1991 (USA) morePlot:
After a misunderstanding, Ernest P. Worrell unleashes an evil troll on Halloween. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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More Innocent Than It Is Stupid moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Jim Varney | ... | Ernest | |
| Eartha Kitt | ... | Old Lady Hackmore | |
| Austin Nagler | ... | Kenny | |
| Shay Astar | ... | Elizabeth | |
| Jonas Moscartolo | ... | Trantor | |
| John Cadenhead | ... | Tom Tulip | |
| Bill Byrge | ... | Bobby Tulip | |
| Richard Woolf | ... | Matt | |
| Nick Victory | ... | Mike | |
| Alec Klapper | ... | Joey | |
| Steven Moriyon | ... | Gregg | |
| Daniel Butler | ... | Cliff | |
| Esther Huston | ... | Amanda | |
| Larry Black | ... | Mayor Murdock | |
| Denice Hicks | ... | Elizabeth's Mother |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
91 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canada:PG (Nova Scotia) (re-rating) (1994) | Australia:PG | Netherlands:6 | Canada:G (Nova Scotia) (original rating) | Iceland:LH | USA:PGFilming Locations:
Tennessee, USAFun Stuff
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The emblem on the side of the Briarville police car reads "Ignoramus Ad Infinitum". moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Trantor scratches the roof of the truck trying to get to Ernest, you can clearly see that it is cloth ripping instead of the metal on the roof. moreQuotes:
Old Lady Hackmore: Listen to the last two lines of the troll's poem. There is one who can stop us if he will dare, With the heart of a child and a mother's care. So we need a heart,[turns to Kenny and Elizabeth]
Old Lady Hackmore: a child's heart!
[laughs]
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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.