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.
Ernest Saves Christmas has generally received mixed reviews.
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Review of Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
By Luke Y. Thompson (1,447) for New Times (467) on 21 May 2004
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Ernest Saves Christmas was released in 1988 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 297 reviews, giving Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) an average rating of 49%.
Overall, cinema-goers prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 68%, compared to film critics, who gave it a lower average score of 56%. Amateur reviewers were more impressed with Ernest Saves Christmas than critics were.
With a score of 49%, Ernest Saves Christmas is below the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1988, which stands at 57%.
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