Clearly kids movies had diamond-smuggling subplots because they were trying to trying and failing to imitate greatest of all 80s kids movies, Great Muppet Caper.
It's a longtime trend to stick a crime or espionage subplot in an otherwise unrelated premise movie, to give the film some sense of forward-moving plot, stakes etc. My favourite example is National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2, which has a jewel heistcas one of 30 unrelated, unnecessary and bizarre subplots. If I had infinite money the first thing I'd do would be to pay Nabin to watch that one.
I have never seen either of the last two Ernest movies, and this does not bode well for "Ernest in the Army". That was still before 9/11 (Varney died in 2000) and he plays a character called "Arab on Quicksand", in addition to Ernest and "Army Captain". Bless you, Nathan, for you are doing God's work.
I dimly remember a Saturday morning Ernest show, don't even know if it's available on DVD, is there any chance you could do an article on that? (Of course, it's quite possible you've done that already and I missed it). As I (again, dimly) recall, it was really good and had several Varney characters besides Ernest. Anybody know anything about this?
I saw this movie as a kid, and I remember two things: The love interest rejecting him at the end for now being too adventurous, and a gag where Ernest pretends to know what plants are edible, and consumes something that makes her say "Wow, Ernest I never knew that poison ivy was edible!"
Clearly kids movies had diamond-smuggling subplots because they were trying to trying and failing to imitate greatest of all 80s kids movies, Great Muppet Caper.
It's a longtime trend to stick a crime or espionage subplot in an otherwise unrelated premise movie, to give the film some sense of forward-moving plot, stakes etc. My favourite example is National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2, which has a jewel heistcas one of 30 unrelated, unnecessary and bizarre subplots. If I had infinite money the first thing I'd do would be to pay Nabin to watch that one.
I have never seen either of the last two Ernest movies, and this does not bode well for "Ernest in the Army". That was still before 9/11 (Varney died in 2000) and he plays a character called "Arab on Quicksand", in addition to Ernest and "Army Captain". Bless you, Nathan, for you are doing God's work.
I dimly remember a Saturday morning Ernest show, don't even know if it's available on DVD, is there any chance you could do an article on that? (Of course, it's quite possible you've done that already and I missed it). As I (again, dimly) recall, it was really good and had several Varney characters besides Ernest. Anybody know anything about this?
IIRC, wasn't the plot of Ian Fleming's children's book CHITTY-CHITTY BANG-BANG about smuggling?
I saw this movie as a kid, and I remember two things: The love interest rejecting him at the end for now being too adventurous, and a gag where Ernest pretends to know what plants are edible, and consumes something that makes her say "Wow, Ernest I never knew that poison ivy was edible!"