The thing is, I know this isn't a great film but it never feels cynical, it never loses track of it's heart. The Ernest character is dim but not stupid. It's that good kind of heart-warming, funny when it needs to be but never makes me want to scream at the screen that it needs to stop giving me a cavity.
The only moment that the plot really ever seems to falter is some of the stuff with the character of Harmony, the runaway that hangs out with Ernest most of the movie. I want to say I feel like she brings something to the plot outside of being the cynical voice for Ernest to bounce off of and contrast with but she often comes off as just plain annoying.
The thing that I've realized as I've gotten older is how much of some of the Ernest films are borrowed from some of the commercials Jim Varney shot in the 80s. Go and find any of the Ernest commercial compilations online. Go ahead. I can wait. So many of them are in the Ernest films. The Pancake one and some of the party ones are full on on feature here.
Notable Commercials: There are so many abbreviated infomercials in here. Work out machines, Proactiv, crap that people would buy for some reason but
Non-Viewing Thoughts: I'm not sure if Santa Slay, the fictional movie in this movie is as good as Santa's Slay, the terrible yet awesome movie from 2005 starring Jim Goldberg. I hope it would be.
Late Christmas Ideas: Some decorations for the apartment now that I think about it.
Tally:
Mountain Dews left: 10
Amps left: 2
Coffee Left: 2 Bottles
Pumpkin Pie Left: Whole Pie (Still cooling off)
Sanity Rating: (1 being Comfort and Joy, 10 being Kill The Bat Boy): 4
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