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There are three periods to Carry On. Early on, they were typical British light comedy capers, hardly risqué. By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years. Pretty much everybody is present and correct, if not politically. Sid James is a likely-ish, if slightly elderly lad, persuading Joan Sims to join him at what he secretly expects to be a nudist colony. Terry Scott is a put-upon suburbian, coerced into outdoor vacations by his ghastly, horsey-laughed wife, while Charles Hawtrey is the campest of campers who befriends them. Kenneth Williams, who alone makes this worth watching, is gloriously ridiculous as head of a girl's school, Chayste Place, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Barbara Windsor as one of the 30 year old fifth formers in their charge. Technically it's terrible stuff, with Barbara Windsor's flying bra, laboured puns galore, peeping tomfoolery, punchlines visible two miles off, "comedy" incidental music and a reactionary denouement in which they chase off a bunch of hippies. Yet if you don't chuckle at least half a dozen times during this, however many times you've seen it, there's probably something wrong with you. --David Stubbs
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Sid (Sid James) and Bernie (Bernard Bresslaw) attempt to trick their girlfriends into attending a nudist camp with them. Fellow holiday-makers include Dr Soaper (Kenneth Williams), his matron Miss Haggerd (Hattie Jacques), and their school of overdeveloped young girls (including Barbara Windsor). Camp carryings-on are guaranteed.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Lou Knee
Format:DVD
Okay so it's not an Ealing comedy, but for what it was, another in the series of formula 'camp' comedies by a well oiled machine that was the Carry On team, it is very good, one of the best. And I would hazard a guess and say it was most people's favourite. It certainly is my favourite, not least because nearly all the regulars are here: This must be the definitive Carry On cast. It's as though they've gathered together for one final fling as they sense the whole franchise may be on its last legs. And what better way to gather than to go on holiday, the British way, camping in the cold and wet. It's a very fair send up of British conservatism and unadventurousness, really, and actually ends up celebrating it, with the campers' successful expulsion of the more exotic young flower children gathered in the field for a rave. Has tremendous nostalgia value, this film, even if you were only a nipper when it came out, as I was. It sort of makes you pine for all that old stuff most people thought was naff even then. Oh, for a life of such simple pleasures, though. Yes, you can almost smell the Double Diamond waiting for you in the camp's own bar. A wonderful film to visit and revisit. This also has to be Terry Scott's finest hour.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
Carry On Camping is easily one of the best in the series. As usual its full of predictable and ever corny gags but its the lovley team of actors that make this the classic it has become. Of course one of the most famous scene from a Carry On is in this one, where BARBARA WINDSORs' bikini top flys off during her morning exercises. This still manages to raise a chuckle now even after seeing this film at least one hundred times. There is no real plot as such. Its just basically fun and games at the paradise camp site with the best of the gang. The film is consistently funny and the best players are defintley the late KENNETH WILLIAMS and HATTIE JAQUES who share the funniest scenes. Amongst the rest of the cast are all the familiar faces which include SID JAMES, JOAN SIMS, CHARLES HAWTREY, TERRY SCOTT, BERNARD BRESSLAW, DILYS LAYE, JULIAN HOLLOWAY and BETTY MARSDEN (in a delightful role). A very good comedy and one of the most succesful in the series.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By S. Hapgood
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Format:VHS Tape
I wouldn't say this was the best in the series, the historical ones were better-made and superior, but for sheer light-hearted fun this takes some beating. It also strangely adds to the fun when you realise it was shot during a very cold October, and you can see the frosty breath coming out of the actor's mouths as they all try to pretend it's high summer! Terry Scott only appeared in a few Carry Ons, but his bumbling character here makes the film, as he tries desperately to break out of his sex-starved lifestyle with his awful hearty wife and her braying laugh. The scenes where they're sharing a tent with Charles Hawtrey, as the well-named Charley Muggins, are hilarious. Hattie Jacques is also on top form as the school matron, prancing around in a t-shirt with "Chayste Place" emblazoned across her vast bosom, and getting the hots for a terrified Kenneth Williams (the scene where she drags by his foot back into his tent as he's trying to make a getaway is priceless!). Plus, of course, it contains the famous Barbara Windsor busting-her-bra scene, and Sid James dressed as a hippy!
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A comedy classic!
'Carry On Camping' is probably the best known entry in the 'Carry On' series, complete with Barbara Windsor's iconic bra popping scene, that's not the say it's the best, far from... Read more
Published 9 days ago by ReviewBlog51
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The best carry on film ever!
This is the funniest of the carry ons! A great cast, clever plot,with loads of laughs.....great fun! Very good price too!
Published 29 days ago by Picnicker
5.0 out of 5 stars
Charming and side splitting
One of the best of the Carry On series second only to Carry On At Your Convenience. Really side cracking nudge-nudge ,wink-wink humour , you should find yourself laughing two dozen... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gary Selikow
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love the Carry on movies
Can't beet the humour or the characters of this dying age make sure you check out the rest of the films and cheer up any day.. Great set to collect and enjoy. I have!!!!
Published 2 months ago by Jerry
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A British classic
Arguably the best of the "carry on" films... One that can be watched over and over again and you still laugh at all the things you have laughed at many times before... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Rose Cannon
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amazing!
i have loved this since i was ten and fifteen yrs later i still do. its in the top three carry on films in my opinion. comedy at it best. the cast are truely inreplaceable. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Miss V. C. Larkin
4.0 out of 5 stars
Carry on Camping
One of these films which can be watched over and over again. Barely time to recover your breath between laughs.
Published 5 months ago by Elgar
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Fast delievery. Brilliant condition of the DVD. Laught all the way through the Film.
Will recomment the Seller to friends
Will recomment the Seller to friends
Published 19 months ago by Nicole
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not keen on Barbara Windsor
I like Kenneth Williams the best. He is a very funny in this. I also like the part where one of the characters goes to the farmer's house and the farmer thinks he got his... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Marianna
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious
We watched this in our tent on a rainy night .... it was hilarious and it brightened our day.... ah good old simple fun.... :)
Published 21 months ago by E. MCGOWAN
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