Carry on England

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John K @WQCMI 14 hrs ago Boring, forgettable and not worth your time watching. Go watch Bugsy Malone instead. See more DanTheMan 2 @DanTheMan2150AD Apr 13, 2025 A slow-action and grimly humourless replay of Carry On Sergeant, Carry On England misjudges the saucy seaside charm of the franchise and, in an attempt to keep pace with comedy trends, replaces it with on-the-nose smut and low-level sex action playing out like a misguided, mash-up episode of Dad's Army and It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Even with the ever-enthusiastic Windsor Davies and Melvyn Hayes playing almost carbon copies of their respective characters from the latter sitcom, the paucity of the script and concept behind it is plain to see. The sexual frustration, constant innuendo and innocent banter have been completely abandoned and in its place is a more vulgar and arrogant style of comedy that struggles even with lavatorial humour; besieged by a steady stream of dreadful puns, single-handedly having to put across the worst selection of jokes in Carry On history with conviction. The more open-minded attitude to sex, with sequences featuring topless nudity only adds to the feeling that the series is, by now, clutching at straws. Even with a couple of funny moments and a clutch of actors always worth watching regardless of poor material, for a comedy, Carry On England is a pretty dismal affair as if the entire life force and humour have been drained from it by some vampiric entity. A shambolic mess consisting of the lowest hanging fruit when it comes to lewd humour and pathetic attempts at slapstick, it plays more like an obscene parody of a Carry On film than an actual Carry On film. See more May 21, 2019 One phrase: Never again Just watch the previous, better, entries in the franchise. See more bill t @Spuzz Apr 22, 2019 The series is never ending, this doesnt quite have a plot until the very end (!!). just a lot of hooligans in a coed army camp and their nincapoop officer. See more Jul 19, 2015 Now, I love the Carry On films, but this is, by far, my least favourite. The whole film feels really awkward as there's lots of painfully drawn out dialogue with no punchlines, and equally painfully drawn out scenes that just feel like time-fillers. The film doesn't really go anywhere and the younger performers seem a little static and unable to mould into the traditional Carry On spirit, despite their best efforts. Kenneth Connor and Windsor Davis do their best but poor Joan Sims is completely wasted with only a handful of lines. The performances from the likes of Judy Geeson and some of the other younger performers feel uncomfortably forced. Just didn't make me laugh and didn't feel like a true Carry On. Very flat throughout and just pathetic. A terrible waste and made me long for the classic era of the Carry On's. See more Oct 25, 2012 Without most of the regular 'Carry On' cast, one would expect this offering to be a total turkey. Whilst this isn't the best in the series, it certainly isn't the worst, with a number of amusing moments and some pleasing performances. See more Read all reviews

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