BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

MamaGravity good back-story, and good acting

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

ianlouisiana When Mr Sidney James looks embarrassed by some of his lines you just know it's not going to be a good experience.Mr Terry Scott gives what is easily the worst performance in the canon,Miss Jacki Piper is bright and pert but has strayed in from an altogether classier movie.The sublime Miss Joan Sims is as ever head and shoulders above anyone else,a fact even more noticeable in the absence of Miss Hattie Jacques and Mr Kenneth Williams. "Carry on up the jungle" has a plot of sorts about the search for a rare bird led by white hunter Mr James and how the expedition comes across as a cut - price Tarzan (Mr Scott doing I'm not quite sure what but it doesn't resemble acting)who turns out to be Miss Sims' long - lost son. Mr Frankie Howerd and Mr Kenneth Connor are present in the flesh if not in the spirit and Mr B.Bresslaw only lacks a banjo to audition for the Black and White Minstrels. The men are kidnapped by a tribe of sex-starved women as you might well expect and my eyelids started drooping shortly after that. I am generally a huge admirer of the "Carry On" series which have provided me over the years with some of the best experiences(well,legal ones) I've had in a cinema,but some of them - to put it mildly - suck. And "Carry on up the jungle" sucks.

w22nuschler I first saw this movie a few years ago and became a fan of the whole series. Most of my favorites are here and they all have great parts in it. Sid James plays the leader of an expedition in the jungle. The beautiful Jacki Piper makes her debut in the Carry On's playing June. She resembles the Jane character from the Tarzan movies. Bernard Bresselaw has a funny part as Sid's right hand man on the journey. Also we have Terry Scott in his finest role of the series as Ugh, the jungle boy. He is the Tarzan character who is a bumbler. Joan Sims, Kenneth Conner and Frankie Howerd round out the main cast. This movie is just likable. There are plenty of funny moments as the cast makes their way thru the jungle. My favorite parts include Jacki Piper and Terry Scott. They make a wonderful couple. He is instantly attracted to her and she to him. The last 20 minutes brings us the best part of the film. All but Jacki and Ugh are saved from and taken by a tribe of women. They want the men to mate with their tribe. Jacki gets away with Ugh and they she teaches him to speak English. She is now wearing jungle bikini and she looks perfect. They have some funny scenes where he keeps miss-pronouncing words so he can make love to her. The men are upset that must make love to ugly women. Finally they are about to make love to hot women and they are rescued by Ugh and Jacki. Valerie Leon plays the leader of the women's tribe and she has a very nice body as well. Sid James is also great as always, but Jacki Piper is my favorite here. Her jungle bikini makes the movie for me.

bob the moo Speaking to an audience of keen bird watchers, Professor Ingio Tinkle tells the story of his latest exhibition into the African jungle. Part of a party led by adventurer Bill Boosey, Tinkle and his colleagues (including Lady Bagley and her maid) are on their quest to find the Oozalum bird when they come under threat from a ruthless tribe and their guides refuse to continue with them. However things become more complicated when the group are discovered by a man of the jungle who was raised by monkeys and has never seen other men (or women!) before.As one would expect with a Carry On film, this is full of innuendo, sexist and occasionally racist humour with a very vague plot to set it all within. Needless to say this film continues the trend and it isn't long before the plot (something about finding the Oozalum bird) is lost in a sea of bed swapping, mistaken partners and innuendo. For fans it is funny but it is nowhere near the best of the series as none of it is really that clever – most of the gags are obvious and, although amusing, few made me laugh out loud and they didn't feel like there was any inspiration behind them. Modern audiences may find the sexist stuff a bit uncomfortable but to be honest, what did you expect from a Carry On film? There is a touch of racism although this too can be forgiven as a product of the period – although it is not as direct as you'd think, instead it is implied by the rubber lipped tribesmen and the fact that only white people are allowed to speak (the main 'black' character is Bresslaw!) or by having the women tribe be mostly white or light skinned – because 1970's audiences weren't ready for the sight of a white man having sex with a black woman (even implied). However the one racial joke I thought was clever was Sid James wondering why the same guide gets accidentally shot every time (the point being that it isn't the same one!).The cast feature most of the regulars who are good enough comedians to be able to work with even this average material. Sid James does his usual stuff; Howerd has some very nice lines that hint at his sexual orientation although Connor is a bit flat when viewed next to him. Terry Scott is OK but has the least role of the film (although it is amusing that he stars with a character called June). The women have the usual short stick but both Sims and Piper are quite good. Hawtrey is funny in a late role that also plays with this physical appearance and sexual orientation. Bresslaw is stuck in yet another 'black face' role – why he is always picked I don't know. The support cast are mostly black clichés but, even 25 years on the Lubi tribe look very, very sexy!Overall this is pretty much par for the course for Carry On films and it will only really please fans. The broad humour lacks actual wit even if it is funny in a crude fashion but it is far from being consistently funny and it is fairly average as the series goes. Those in the mood for this type of humour will enjoy it but the humour is too broad and too badly structured to really be funny or witty.

Erich-13 The Carry On Gang get up to their usual monkey business, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. This isn't their best effort...the script tries to fit in too many jungle cliches for its short running time, leading to a rather disjointed mishmosh of storylines. However, there are still many funny lines, and the Carry On regulars and semi-regulars (especially Frankie Howerd as the fussy professor) are in fine form. All in all, a very amusing way to spend 90 minutes.