FuzzyTagz
If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Clarissa Mora
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
Rrrobert
A good cast, good sets and costumes can't save this film which is short on laughs. Jim Dale has a main role and does many pratfalls so if you like him, then you'll probably enjoy it. Most of the other cast members use such strong "American" accents that half the time you are so distracted by their pronunciation that it kills the joke, or you miss what they have said entirely. Joan Sims gave my favourite performance in it but she is sadly underused.
GusF
Is it my imagination or do barkeeps in Westerns always seem to be named Charlie...? Anyway, it's not on the same level as the last two absolutely hilarious films but it's still a very funny parody of the Western genre. I don't know whether, as with "Carry On Cleo", the sets were built for another film but they look almost as the good as the ones used in actual Westerns of the era, as do the costumes. At first, I thought that it would be funnier if the cast had played their roles in their natural accents but the fake American accents add to the fun.As he did in "Carry On Spying", Kenneth Williams plays against his usual type and adopts a wonderfully over the top accent as Sheriff Burke. Charles Hawtrey has less screen time than in the last two films but he excels as Big Heap, a character who, like Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in "Carry On Cleo", works so well partly because he is the polar opposite of depictions of Native American in films of the era. The contrast between his portrayal and that of his deliberately clichéd son Little Heap, played by Bernard Bresslaw, is especially funny. As in several earlier "Carry On" films, Sid James plays the role of the Rumpo Kid fairly straight and is surprisingly menacing at times! Joan Sims gets more to do as Belle than she did as Calpurnia and is as superb as ever. Her best scenes are the ones in which she is trying to seduce Marshall and in which she fights Annie Oakley for him. Jim Dale has its biggest role in the series to date as the meek and mild Marshall P. Knutt, the opposite of his character Horsa from the previous film. Kenneth Connor is absent for the first of eight consecutive films and I suspect that the role of Marshall may have been originally intended for him. Dale has good comic timing but he's no Connor, I'm afraid. The funniest member of the supporting cast in the film is certainly Jon Pertwee as the deaf and blind but well meaning Sheriff Earp. The joke would probably have gotten old fast so it was probably for the best that his appearance was quite brief. Peter Butterworth is the best newcomer on this occasion.
VLeung
This is virtually a straight copy of those Bob Hope Westerns like Paleface and something or other Jesse James. Weedy bloke becomes sheriff after case of mistaken identity. With Carry On films, though, there's the Jim Dale rule, which is that the movies Jim Dale stars in are usually sweet, with a bit of a plot, and the ones he doesn't tend to be pre-peak or just terrible, like At Your Convenience or the camply awful Girls, both of which remain fascinating social documents but are genuinely bad films.
Cowboy isn't a good film, of course, but it is likeable. There's a great song. Sid James isn't the romantic lead, so you can breathe a sigh of relief and just sit back and enjoy it. Watch without irony - it's not cool to pretend there's another level to this pretty bad but genuinely charming little British film.
Smalling-2
A sanitary inspector is mistaken for a law marshal in a slummy western town, and is expected to sweep away the gang terrorizing the habitants.Unexpectedly clever, engagingly performed and enjoyably spirited western spoof that ranks among the best of the series.
