Ernest Saves Christmas
Movie • 1988 • Comedy
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When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
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Santa's reindeer are left at a shipping center. They're all fine and their antics are played for humor.
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malovela
No, but a teenaged girl has run away from home because she felt overlooked by her parents, who are going through a divorce. In the end she contacts her mother and plans to go home.
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Several fish are kept in a small tank. Several dozens of snakes are dumped from a small bin. A snake is dropped onto the ground (implied to have been thrown).
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Are there snakes?
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Ernest pretends to be a Hollywood snake wrangler, and snakes are shown
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Is someone restrained?
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We see prisoners in a jail cell.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Someone comes out from the bathroom, dabbing at his lower face with a towel, just having shaved.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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One of the airport workers is crushed under a box but it is played as comedic. The man is completely unharmed
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A character removes presents from Santa's bag, and replaces them with stuffing.
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One of the characters is an actor doing scenes in a horror movie.
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No, nor any similar destruction.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There is a brief scene where there are police cars with lights on but there are no close ups and it is not intense
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malovela
Yes and no? There's a strange scene in which the camera "acts as" a named character whom we never see. Since the characters look at and talk to him, they look into the camera, and so it looks like they're looking at us. However, everything they say while looking into the camera is addressed to this named, but unseen, character, not to us.
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No pregnancies, no births, no babies.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be funny when the male title character dresses up (way over the top) as a grown man's oversharing, critical and complaining mother.
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Technically it isn’t mentioned whether Harmony is or not but she has run away from her family so I would assume yes
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Santa is a character in the film
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In the very beginning Ernest backs up down the highway and cars push each other away to avoid him but as it is meant to be comedic that is all that is seen and it is assumed the drivers are okay
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Harmony is almost hit by Ernest’s taxi but he stops just in time
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Does a plane crash?
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No, but the flying sleigh with its reindeer almost does, because its driver can't control it properly. So there is a "Noooo, we're gonna hit the ground and die!" scene ending in a last second save, although it's played for laughs, and everyone overacts on purpose.
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