Ernest Saves Christmas

I think I should start off by saying that Ernest is a forgotten national treasure. Kids these days probably have no idea who he was and what great comedy he gave to America.
In this adventure, Ernest is a taxi driver (who drives terribly) and destiny has him pick Santa Clause up at the Orlando Airport. Ernest is a huge supporter of Christmas, but even he has a little trouble believing that he could really be Santa. Along the way we meet a girl named Harmony, (real name Pamela) who seems troubled, and has run away from home. She's definitely a non believe when it comes to Santa. She's also a liar and is probably on the naughty list. But regardless she still helps Ernest in this adventure as his handy dandy side kick.
 
Santa is on his way to a children's museum where he finds the man he wants to replace him as santa, a man named Joe. He is a children's performer and has a very pure soul. But he doesn't really believe either. He instead gets caught up in possibly being cast in a big movie. His agent ends up calling the cops who arrest Santa.

Ernest realizes that Santa left his magic bag of toys in his cab, and after looking inside of it and trying to pull toys out, he truly believes. So when he learns that Santa is in jail, he immediately goes to help. He and Harmony put on some costumes and con their way into the jail cell block and then get Santa released.

Christmas Eve has arrived and Santa still hasn't convinced Joe to take up the Santa torch. He tries desperately, but is let down when Joe turns him down. Harmony also steals the bag and heads to the train station to run away, thus ruining Christmas for everyone. After realizing that the movie business isn't for him, Joe decides that being Santa would be a lot better. Well that's one problem solved! Miraculously Harmony has a change of heart and returns to Santa with his bag in tow.

They are still missing the sleigh and reindeer. These have been in holding at the airport, freaking out a couple of buffoon workers who happen to appear in every Ernest movie.  The reindeer are hanging up side on the ceiling and doing some warm ups for their big nights. Ernest and some elves arrive to pick them up, and end up needing to fly the sleigh to the meeting location in order to meet Santa by the deadline.After some crazy driving and lots of screaming by the elves, they finally make it just in the nick of time.
Ernest really did save Christmas!!

We did a "Know what I mean?" count during this movie, and Ernest said his catch phrase 13 times. One thing that is just so great about Ernest is all the different characters he has that show up in his movie. We have snooty rich man, old grandma, and dirty gross prospector, just to name a few.

Andrew's Closing Thought: Classic Ernest, know what I mean?

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