MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Excellent For Children, Slapstick Violence Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 09/03/2002 Format:DVD - Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 21 mins Studio:Walt Disney Video Total Copies: 3 Genres:Comedy, Slapstick, Prison Film
DVD Synopsis
In Ernest Goes to Jail, Jim Varney returns as leering idiot savant Ernest P. Worrall, star of scores of TV commercials and feature films. Varney also takes on a second role in the film: an unrepentant, cold-blooded murderer named Felix Nash. When Ernest serves on the jury for Nash's murder trial, Nash arranges for look-alike Ernest to go to jail, while he stays on the outside to plan a major bank heist. Fortuitously for the criminal, it's the same bank where Ernest works as a security guard. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
John Cherry directs Jim Varney in the comedy Ernest Goes to Jail, which comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, making it quite difficult to recommend this Disney/Buena Vista release to anyone who is not an Ernest fan. There is little here for the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide
Member Movie Reviews
Margaret S. (morgan2010) from GLENVIEW, IL wrote on 11/6/2009...
Ernest was at his best in this movie. And so was his co-stars. It's is a silly movie and sometimes that's a lot better than an over the top action pack,violent movie. So get yourself a bowl of popcorn and enjoy.
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