Ernest Goes to Jail

There is no subtle Ernest movie. You can look, but there are none. But there is a funny one. Ernest Goes to Jail is funny. Laugh-out-loud-funny even. It's not a well-scripted movie.

There is no explanation why bad actors acting badly can be hilarious sometimes.

Say what you want (and you will) - but Jim Varney can be funny. His Ernest shtick got old (or maybe always was to some of you), but somehow he's really funny in Ernest Goes to Jail.

A lot of the laughs recieved are easy laughs. There's no complexity to the humor. What you see is what you get. And I liked what I got.

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Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

Before you look at my rating, know that I like this film. It holds a deep hold on my youth where I would watch this movie that my brother and I taped off of TV. There is some strong nostalgia for this film. But the film itself is laughable. I don't know if teenagers of 1993 were like the teenagers portrayed in the film (spoutin' off "that's whack" and "yos" like they were articles of speech), but I doubt it. The plot is really just an excuse to make a sequal to the successful predecessor (and a poor excuse at that). But it's good, clean fun. The film itself is lame, but the experience of watching the film with others who had similar memories of a wonderful film (now proven mistaken) is priceless.

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