gwnightscream Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, Gailard Sartain and John Vernon star in this 1987 comedy. The late, Varney (The Beverly Hillbillies) plays goofy, nice guy, Ernest P. Worrell who is caretaker of Camp Kikakee. He desperately wants to be a counselor and tries to prove himself when he's assigned to help a group of Juveniles. He endures their pranks, but eventually bonds with them and also tries to save the Camp from shrewd, land developer, Sherman Krader (Vernon) with their help. Racimo plays Native American Nurse, St. Cloud and Sartain plays the Camp's Chef, Jake who whips up some odd recipes. I watched this growing up, it's not bad and Varney was great as Ernest. I recommend this.

Joey For the time the movie was great. Jim Varney is a hilarious actor and it is sad he had to died. But the movie had great comedy and this is just another classic Ernest film I would recommend everyone should see.First the comedy in the film was great and original. The camera angles were perfect.The idea of kids from a detention center going to a camp was great. What I didn't like was all the whole native American thing they had going on. But the battle for the camp at the end was great especially the whole launching turtles into the sky and then have them parachute down onto the people and bite them.But the best part was probably when he was sitting down in the lawn chair and then he was cooking and got pulled into the fire and then jumped into the lake which I thought was pure comedy gold.

Lee Eisenberg Maybe the Ernest movies had no cinematic value, but you have to accept them for what they are: pure, unadulterated fun. In this case, Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) is working at a summer camp, where some "second chance" kids have just arrived. Most of the movie is an excuse to have Ernest get into a series of embarrassing situations, but then he has to try and protect the camp from an unctuous developer (John Vernon).Like I said, you have to accept the Ernest movies, if only to watch him mess everything up all the time. He's like Gilligan: he always tries his best, but always manages to bungle things. It's quite certain that Jim Varney will be missed.

departed07 This is by far, the funniest ernest p. worrell flicks ever. What I still like about it, its that not only is it heartwarming and rejuvenated; but from the series itself, this is the only normal one I consider funny. I know its slapstick comedy when Ernest gets squash from a coke machine or when he is flying from the toliet; but at least he's not chasing trolls, playing basketball, in the army, in africa, in jail, saving santa, or worse yet, school. I can't go any farther than this, but this is the only ernest flick that I will only watch, and still like until the day I die.