Clevercell
Very disappointing...
Glimmerubro
It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.
Megamind
To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
wilvram
Granted its obvious defects, this porn parody is a far funnier Carry On than many give it credit for.The Carry On regulars are all in fine form, with Jack Douglas having his finest hour in the series as suave, randy 'Loins' the butler and there's a treasurable farewell performance from dear old Peter Butterworth, which is vintage Carry On. Kenneth Connor is brilliant, as usual, as lecherous chauffeur Leyland, Joan Sims returns to form as the Dickensian sounding Mrs Dangle and Kenneth Williams is as funny as ever as Prevert. Suzanne Danielle is quite superb as Emmannuelle and her sexy, knowing performance is all the more remarkable considering her limited acting experience at the time.If you can put aside any preconceptions and accept it as a bawdy romp of Britain in the post-pill pre-AIDS era when PC stood only for police constable, Emmannuelle provides plenty of laughs.
Jackson Booth-Millard
The Carry On films are supposed to be innuendos, nob gags, a tiny bit of nudity, and dialogue with double meaning, but this film just goes too far with all these things. Basically the film is spoofing the long running French erotic movie series, so the lead female character Emmannuelle (Suzanne Danielle) is the beautiful sex mad wife of French Ambassador Emile Prevert (Kenneth Williams), having sex with many VIPs in frustration, and getting in press scandals because of Theodore Valentine (Larry Dann), desperate to have her. She is having sex with all these people, but the only guy she really wants is obviously her husband. Other than this story, there is a sequence, where Emmannuelle and the house staff: Leyland (Kenneth Connor), Mrs. Dangle (a bigger Joan Sims), Lyons, or "Loins" (Jack Douglas) and Richmond (Peter Butterworth) discuss their strangest sex experiences with each other, and flashbacks, not accurate to their comments, appear. Also starring Beryl Reid as Mrs. Valentine, Henry McGee as Harold Hump and Howard Nelson as Harry Hernia. Danielle may look good naked (from the back at least), but Williams (from the back also), ugh! As for the sex sequences you see most (thankfully not all) of, they are just disturbing and uncomfortable, especially when they involve the five remaining Carry On regulars, Barbara Windsor refused by the way. It is a rotten comedy with nothing good to say about it, just as bad as Carry On England, no good moments - well, you can't ignore Danielle nude, just a ridiculous piece of comedy crap! Very poor!
crossbow0106
A late period Carry On film, this one stars Suzanne Danielle in her debut performance as Emmanuelle, the wife of an ambassador (Kenneth Williams) and her very sexual ways. She becomes a member of the mile high club and, once in London, seems to bed down any man who breathes. I know its a send up of the Emmanuelle films, but it doesn't quite have the zaniness and laughter of a Carry On film. Ms. Danielle is attractive and often scantily clad, but you really don't care after a while. Kenneth Williams does his best, and he is always good, but the film doesn't really keep your interest. You miss the late Sid James, who passed away before this film was made, he could have made it a better film. Not the worst Carry on, but unless you are a Carry On completist, I don't recommend it.
hugh1971
I do think this is possibly one of the worst films I've ever seen. Carry on England was dire, but the Windsor Davies/Ken Connor routines weren't bad and the film seemed at least competently produced, but Emmanuelle is just poor from so many angles - technically - the awful cheap film stock which looks like it was leftover from a Shake 'n' Vac commercial, the crass innuendos and the need to hammer home obvious jokes (eg: I left in 1953. But the war ended in 1945...?).Then there's the stock footage of London tourist spots in a lame attempt to interest overseas viewers, and the rubbish sub-Terry Gilliam 'special effects'. We also get the staple flouncy homo and comedy pakistanis. The acting is woeful with the good actors looking embarrassed or bored and the bad ones trying too hard. Miss Danielle, though very pretty, was I suspect overenthusiastically cast in the Mary Millington mould - perhaps the protégé of someone in the film industry who promised to 'make her a star'.It's also very dated in its approach to sex. You can almost hear the writers thinking 'all that innuendo in the fifties and sixties is old hat, man. This is the permissive society now, and, like, sex is cool and everybody's doing it, even fat old ladies in launderettes!' This results in a number of sordid 'gags'(middle aged servants spying on a couple in bed, a leering football team queueing up for a gang bang, references to contraceptive pills, but strangely no reference to the clap, which I would imagine Emmannuelle must have picked up a few times - though perhaps STDs didn't exist in the mind of 1970s scriptwriters... etc). The film even opens with the seventies fantasy of random strangers joining the 'mile high club'. One or two jokes made me laugh 'You for coffee? No I'm staying here' but these were few and far between.This could have been so much better in the hands of a competent scriptwriter and the old Carry On gang, but as it is this is a sad shadow of the former films and not really a Carry On at all, but a feeble dated British sex comedy, which is neither sexy nor funny.
