When the woman runs up at the end and says, "Ernest, the judge signed a restraining order!" I said to my friends, "...for you, because you just blew up a construction site!"
Yes, ol' Ernest rounds up the kids for a bit of good ol' fashioned eco-terrorism. I mean, yeah, throwing nasty lobster mix on construction workers is all in good fun, but exploding lanterns? Fire arrows? And if that wasn't bad enough, they dropped parachute turtles. Oh the humanity!
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Hadn't seen this movie in years, can't remember much....however....the parachuting turtles with forever be burned into my psyche.
shareThat's one of the things about this movie you notice as an adult. After the battle scene the Ernest or the camp would probably be sued for destruction of property and forced to pay restitution to the mining company. The wheel loader alone would probably cost 200K, so the camp would most likely declare bankruptcy and have to close anyway. The the mining company buys the land cheap.
"Sometimes, you just gotta say: "The laws of time and space? Who gives a smeg!"
The movie culminates with bullets fired at point-blank range passing harmlessly through Ernest's body because of Native American mysticism or something, and THIS is the part you find unrealistic? :)
shareYup. Mining companies never get more than a slap on the wrist, no matter how many people they kill.
shareI too was thinking something along those lines after that scene.
shareHOW DARE YOU QUESTION THIS FILM?!?!
It's a documentary of actual events that transpired at Camp Kikake. I learned all my morals and skills from this movie, college was pointless...