Solemplex
To me, this movie is perfection.
Steineded
How sad is this?
Kien Navarro
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
TheLittleSongbird
I love a vast majority of the Carry On films such as Screaming, Cleo and Up the Khyber, and this entry is no exception. Sidney James is underused but still has fun as Gladstone Screwer, admittedly an odd name,and the film does feel a little short but Carry on Again Doctor is still very funny and entertaining. Jim Dale does an above decent job taking centre stage as Doctor Nookey, with excellent comic timing. Kenneth Williams is great as always, and Charles Hawtrey has one of his better outings as Dr Stoppidge, allowing to hiss vehemently and bitterly. The locations of the Bautific Islands are very nice, and the script is filled with one liners that are witty and hilarious. Plus the slapstick finale is genuinely funny, quite possibly one of the funnier finales in the franchise. 8/10 Bethany Cox
MARIO GAUCI
Being the third outing in the series to be set against a medical backdrop, I was fully expecting this to be a tired rehash of old gags and ideas; however, I found it quite an agreeable latter-day entry – if still essentially second-tier material.The cast sees Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Jim Dale in more or less similar roles as its predecessor CARRY ON DOCTOR (1967); on the other hand, Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor play different characters. Also, the mid-section of the film reverts to a tropical island setting (to which Dale has been assigned as a punishment, and where wily orderly James is stationed – though, even in such remote surroundings, he manages to keep up-to-date with English soccer results via coded drum-playing from the natives!).Some of the best gags involve Dale's accident-prone antics at the hospital early on (including his examination of scantily-clad starlet Windsor) and the latter stages set in Dale's private clinic (James has devised a concoction which turns out to be an effective slimming treatment – subsequently exploited by Dale under the patronage of wealthy Sims), which also sees Hawtrey once again in drag (he's a doctor who's jealous of Dale and has infiltrated the clinic on a mission for Dale's ex-superior/now-rival Williams). Series regular Peter Butterworth only has one wacky scene; other bits highlight Wilfrid Brambell (uncredited as an eccentric patient), lovely Valerie Leon (as Dale's sultry secretary) and future Mrs. Michael Caine Shakira Baksh (as a native-girl who successfully undertakes James' miraculous cure).
suchenwi
Another part of the Carry On series, the third that I've seen so far, and a quite amusing entertainment from a time long ago... Babs Windsor slimmer than ever can't be missed.However. The version I have is from the German AmCo "Classic Movies" series, which in general deserves praise for providing dozens of (mostly British) films from the 1930..80s inexpensively, typically 3 Euro in department stores, and with the original soundtrack as well as the German dub. Watching "Carry On Again Doctor" gave me a shock roughly in the middle, though - speech suddenly disappeared, while music and sound effects still could be heard. What could I do but switch to the German dub, which happily lasted until the very end, but of course isn't the real thing...Update, 2008-08-31: the problem is not of the DVD, but my player (Funai PLF-76) - depending on how deep I put the earphone plug into its jack, I hear either English mono on both sides, or English on one and sounds only on the other. In this weekend's 15 hrs Carry On marathon, I could listen to this one in English until the end :)
sol-
Loaded with funny jokes, and featuring Kenneth Williams at his very finest, this is one of the strongest entries in the Carry On series. Sure, it is rather silly in a number of different ways, and the music and sound effects choices are quite poor, plus there is some fast motion used very ineffectively - but otherwise there is little not to like in it. The characters are simply great, the plot is rather interesting, and there are some good, though briefly shown, tropical locations. It is all rather well shot and definitely well written. Overall, it is surprising that this entry does not have a better reputation.
