Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Spidersecu Don't Believe the Hype

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Blueghost I'm surprised this film was greenlit. It looks like a British or European attempt to mimic the American pre-teen to 20-something market commercial film making model. It's a mercifully free form the burden of intelligence production, but has a kind of simplistic charm to it that melds old school bawdy comedies with a somewhat more intellectual based material. So you get gags about personas of the time, what they did, what they asked for and achieved.If you know your renaissance history, know what was happening around the time of Columbus and his famous voyage(s), then you'll be in the know. In short, you need to have some history in your mind regarding the place and period to appreciate some of the humor.But, not all of the humor is immersed in historical data (or interpretations thereof). A lot of it basic gag material, some of it sexual, some of it slapstick, some of it is just basic humor about every day habits of people. In summation the film isn't all that funny, but it has a kind of light hearted charm to it, and in this way amusing, but it's more miss than hit in terms of a good funny film.Even so, it is a good film after a fashion. I'm not sure what went wrong here, but there is a kind of attractiveness just to the overall structure and film itself. But, that's the film maker in me talking, and not the Joe-Audience member that should be authoring this review.If you need a little light amusement in your life, you could do worse, but you could also do better than "Carry On Columbus".A harmless title all the same, but not something I'd readily recommend. Watch at your own risk.

thetudorgirl I love the carry on films and will defend this particular one as I think it was good, it was not as bad as some people make out, the only thing I hated about it was that they had Americans in it and they should never have done that, the carry ons are not about the Americans, but apart from that I found it a funny film and Jim Dale is brilliant in it as usual. I know it didn't have the rest of the cast in it that we all love and no so well, but come on guys this film was not that bad and was a nice tribute to the originals. However I do think that no more carry on films should be made now as the talent just isn't there anymore, the stars of today are just not carry on material, they are not funny and do have enough to class to make a carry on film work, we should all just remember and cherish the originals now and forget about making anymore.

Sebastian Carr The original Carry On series has a certain kitsch charm. They were smutty, low budget attempts to appeal to the masses, which broadly succeeded in putting a smile on the nation's face. Great casts of talented comic actors such as Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor gave their all to leave a superb record of the humour of the time. Fourteen years after the original series drew to a close, largely because it was no longer relevant to the country, someone got the bright idea to revive the tradition. I can almost hear the smug conversations as the likes of Julian Clary and Rik Mayall decided to undertake what they thought would be a simple project. How miserably they failed. It is an execrable, ill conceived and poorly executed film, the only purpose of which is to illustrate the quality of the originals.We often bemoan the demise of the British film industry, yet we seem to be almost incapable of turning out any decent films with the resources we have.

Howlin Wolf ... and that's probably only because there are comedians from my era in it and not because it's actually any good. Then again, NONE of the series was any good, so I fail to see how this can be thought any worse than its predecessors. The usual round of quips that are so obvious that you can see them coming a mile off, corny gags that only a simpleton would find funny for more than a nanosecond, and tired and tame sexual innuendo. It also unfortunately features many of our most respected comedians making complete fools of themselves - and not in a good way. "Carry on... " came back after all those years and it still didn't change a bit. Not really worth the bother.