So instead of "Ernest Goes to Antarctica", we go this. My inner child is still pissed we never got to see Ernest take on a shape-shifting alien monstrosity.
It's not blackface. It's light brown/ olive face. And I'm pretty sure he's pretending be an expat Indian colonial manservant, not an African, presumably as part of some plan to foil the white dude's evil schemes. So, not racist, just Ernest being practical.