When Ernest first meets the "second chance boys", the boy with the yellow shirt's sunglasses disappear and reappear between shots.
During the poker game we see a shot of the woods and the cabin, and a crew member in a blue shirt can be seen standing in the woods.
When Ernest is driving the school buses at the beginning of the movie, the buses change back and forth from a Ford to an International Harvester Loadstar several times.
When the ladder falls over backwards with Ernest in the beginning, you can see he jumps off screen before it hits the ground.
You also see that he wasn't very high off the ground.
Maybe 3-4 feet.
Bronk's Stinson's laughter is added in later while his back is turned to the camera.
When operating the bulldozer to destroy Camp Kickakee's cabins, Lyle Alzado isn't moving as he "laughs".
When Bronk Stinson bullies "Moose" Moustafa, you can tell his voice is added in later when he shouts, "No!" to the foreman.
In the second ladder sequence at the end of the movie, Ernest falls with the ladder.
In the next shot with him laying on the ground, the ladder is not seen.
In the next shot after he has pulled down the sign, we can see the ladder was resting covering his entire body and should have been seen in the second scene.
In the first exploding lantern sequence, the lantern has a diffuser bulb installed.
When it launches into the air and crashes to the ground, the diffuser bulb has been shattered.
Ernest carries it away, and in the next scene, the bulb is back in place on the lantern.
When the second chance boys unravel the gauze on Ernest with the bus, a section is pulled taught in front of a group of them, however, it remains stationary as the bus is supposed to be pulling it.
When Ernest is fighting the foreman, at one point his hat is knocked off his head, but it is back on in the next shot.
Razzie Award |
| Worst New Star |
| Date | Area | Gross |
|---|---|---|
| USA | USD 23,509,382 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 May 1987 | USA | USD 6,171,957 | 1541 |
| Date | Area | Gross | Screens |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 June 1987 | USA | USD 1,233,441 | 1254 |
| 14 June 1987 | USA | USD 1,620,431 | 1321 |
| 7 June 1987 | USA | USD 2,352,018 | 1500 |
| 31 May 1987 | USA | USD 3,614,414 | 1541 |
I am a big fan of Jim Varney and his Ernest P Worrell character. I saw all four of the Ernest movies in the theater.
He is an amazing guy in person..though I have not talked with him since 94 when I was living in Vegas he was proud of what he got to be.
Sorry for the cliche, but the title describes the way I feel about the Ernest movies. If you can, watch the movie with at least one child below the age of say about 12.
I was completely shocked at how bad the humor in this movie is. my jaw literally dropped in the first minute of the movie.
"Ernest Goes to Camp" (1987), this movie, in my opinion, is the best Ernest film in the Ernest P. Worrell movie franchise.
I wonder if the reason some disliked this movie is because the people of today are so brainwashed and hard wired to think that all a movie is supposed to contain is nudity, meaningless sex, cursing and violence? Do you people think that's what makes a great movie?
For the time the movie was great. Jim Varney is a hilarious actor and it is sad he had to died.
Ernest's summer camp adventure is actually his second feature-length adventure after he began life in TV commercials (not a lot of people know he actually starred in Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam the year before), and it's fairly standard mid-80s family fare.
This was the first theatrical fare for Ernest P. Worrell, the lovable and clumsy character from the 80s TV commercials.
