CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.

Paul Evans It's the early sixties and jobs are tough to come by, enter Helping Hands, an agency that can fulfill any post.These earliest carry on films seem like a totally different group of films to the latter offerings. Regardless is funny, charming and truly light hearted, there was an innocence to this earlier movies that was replaced with something more adult in later years, possibly more smutty.There isn't a tight plot, it's very loose in a way, a series of sketches hang together before a mad cap slapstick ending. Every sketch had its moments, Kenneth Connor's sniggering at the gentleman's club is hilarious, as is a drunken Joan Sims. I wouldn't say there's a particular standout, but Stanley Unwind and Esma Cannon although being supporting characters provide great laughs. Liz Fraser is great, such a sensational beauty.

GusF Unlike the other films in the series, this is essentially a sketch comedy film held together by a loose plot. I was sceptical about the sketch format at first and it took a while to get going but I think that it worked very well. The funniest sketches feature Kenneth Williams taking a woman's pet chimp Yoki on a walk around London and taking in a chimp's tea party, Joan Sims getting extremely drunk at a wine tasting event, Sid James being mistaken for one of the finest living diagnosticians at a hospital and Kenneth Connor getting the wrong end of the stick and thinking that he has been hired to work as a spy. The latter is a great parody of pre-Bond British spy films. Those four actors are the strongest performers and get the best material on this occasion.As in sketch shows, not all of them work. The comedic potential of Charles Hawtrey (criminally underused in contrast to most of the other films) working as a bouncer at a strip club is wasted because we never actually see him do it. The four scenes in which Stanley Unwin spouts his trademark gobbledygook are just painful, frankly. On the bright side, as the matron in the hospital sketch, the prim and proper Joan Hickson provides a fantastic contrast to James' leering and dirty jokes. The film has a very good cast such as Hattie Jacques (who only appears in said hospital sketch), Esma Cannon, Fenella Fielding and Terence Alexander. However, the early regular Terence Longdon, making his final appearance in the series, and Bill Owen are basically relegated to cameos and Liz Fraser only has one scene worth mentioning after she parades around in her underwear at the beginning of the film.The aforementioned problems aside, however, it is an extremely funny film which produced plenty of belly laughs. What more can you ask for from a "Carry On" film?

Leofwine_draca Another fine, early, memorable entry in the Carry On series. This one has a very loose story indeed, one that barely provides continuity between a series of sketches that mostly veer towards the very funny. Most of the regulars find themselves employed in Sid James' odd job agency, taking on all manner of work, with the inevitable mix-ups and crossed wires along the way.The ratio of funny to unfunny sketches is very high. Off the top of my head, the following are all highlights: Kenneth Connor trying to keep quiet in the library, Charles Hawtrey having a stab at boxing, Kenneth Williams walking a chimp, and of course the ending in the derelict house which is slapstick at its very Laurel and Hardy-style best.Stanley Unwin's gobbledegook-speaking character makes for some memorable interludes and the actors are at the top of their game, with everybody getting plenty of screen time aside from Hattie Jacques, who appears in a cameo (she was ill during filming). Liz Fraser, a Barbara Windsor prototype, also proves very good in a straight-type role, while Joan Sims gets a chance to let her hair down at a wine-tasting session. Watch out for the delightful Esma Cannon as the dotty receptionist, Fenella Fielding and real-life wrestler Joe Robinson as boxer 'Dynamite Dan'. This one's a treat!

FUX This Carry On does not seem to have a story line- it is more of a series of sketches linked together only by "Helping Hands". However this is a good one, NOT quite what the tagline suggests, but a good one. Most of the main stars (to date) are here, and they all get their own sketches. My fav being the Kenneth Williams/Chimp one (But this could be because KW is the best "Carry On-er"!). Other highlights are the Joan Sims' sketch at a wine tasting party and the end scene whare all the gang demolish a house. Apart from Stanley Unwin (I can't stand the way he talks) this is a good-un.