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Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Paul Evans I find it truly difficult to review Carry on Doctor, a film that has been there when I've needed it, it's helped with exams, tragedies and all sorts. The humour even now is loud, brash, bawdy, saucy and just plain old fashioned funny. I find it difficult to understand how on earth someone could watch it and not find it funny, it provides uplifting fun, gag after gag, and an innocence that has long since past. The performances all around are just sensational. Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Sid James in particular are all magical. Nurse had previously shown that the medical format worked extremely well, as would the later hospital based films, but Doctor will always be the pick of the bunch. Still shown on TV, DVD and download sales aplenty, hard!y surprising, Carry on Doctor is a gem, a true British institution.

tc_nafsasp You either love them or hate them, and if you're reading reviews on them you probably fall into the former category, so I won't disappoint you because this is about as good as it gets. Only Kenneth Connor is missing, and you get the added delights of Peter Gilmour, Brian Wilde ( Mr Barraclough in Porridge ), Dilys Laye, Frankie Howerd and many others. Almost every scene is funny, Jim Dale stands out ( a vastly underrated talent ), with Barbara Windsor exuberant, Bernard Bresslaw in one of his best roles, Julian Orchard in a cameo, Sid and Joan, Hattie and Charles, and need I say more. This was perhaps, with Camping and Up the Khyber, the pinnacle, from then on it went downhill faster than Franz Klammer. Oh happy days, nearly all the cast members sadly departed us. If you're new to Carry On's, most of series is excellent, but don't watch Columbus. It's not a Carry On really, lame and dull.

bkoganbing Big screen and small screen medical dramas get their dose of satire from the Carry On troupe in Carry On Doctor. Usually those are solemn and serious when performed but none when this crowd does it.Young Dr. Kilmore played by Jim Dale is an earnest well meaning sort of doctor even if he is a bit of a klutz. The patients in the ward like him even if the higher ups in the hospital don't. They include the head doctor Kenneth Williams and the head nurse Hattie Jacques. When a series of colossal and hysterically funny accidents put Dale on the hospital roof looking like he's enjoying a little slap and tickle with a patient, that's enough to get him fired.Those patients though consisting of folks like Sid James, Frankie Howerd, and Charles Hawtrey aren't about to lose their favorite doctor. He's valuable to them like Captain Parmenter was to Sergeant O'Rourke on F Troop. Things get righted in their universe with a lot of laughs along the way and many jokes about bodily secretions.Howerd's got some good moments as a motivational speaker who believes that doctors are superfluous until a big fall on his derrière lands him in hospital. Even funnier is Hawtrey as a man going through sympathetic labor pains with his wife on the birth of their first child.You'll never watch St. Elsewhere with quite the same view again after seeing Carry On Doctor.

Tweekums This entry in the 'Carry On' series doesn't really have a plot; for the most part it is just a series of amusing incidents happening on a hospital ward. The film opens with Frankie Howerd giving a talk on how doctors aren't needed as good health is just a case of positive thinking... till he falls off the stage and sprains his back. Once he is in hospital we meet the other patients; Sid James, who is faking his illness to get away from his wife; Charles Hawtrey, who is suffering from a sympathetic pregnancy and Bernard Bresslaw who is recovering from an appendectomy and has a thing for one of the patients on the women's ward. Looking after them we have Hattie Jacques playing the matron as always and Jim Dale and Kenneth Williams as doctors Kilmore and Tinkle. There is a bit of plot towards the end when Dr. Kilmore sees trainee nurse Barbara Windsor on the roof and things she is about to jump when in reality she is just sunbathing... in his attempted rescue she thinks he is a peeping tom, he slips on the roof and pulls off another nurse's dress and falls through a window and lands in another nurse's bath... this leads to his dismissal but the patients will do what it takes to get him reinstated.There are a decent number of amusing scenes; I particularly liked it when Frankie Howerd overheard a conversation about how he would only be around for another week and assumed they meant that was how long he had to live... this gets even funnier when somebody comes round to measure the bed for new sheets and he thinks he is being measured for a coffin! I'm sure fans of the series will enjoy this as most of the regulars are to be seen even if some do have fairly small roles. Anybody familiar with the series will know what to expect of course; plenty of slightly risqué jokes, a modicum of slapstick and some wonderfully groan-worthy puns but nothing really offensive.