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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I had loads of the Carry On films already. So it wasn't worth me buying the complete set. This four-movie DVD was a good way of getting the films I didn't have. Now I nearly have all the Carry Ons. I can strongly recommend this DVD collection.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A bumper pack that combines the second quartet of Carry On films, dating from 1961 to 1963. Best of this bunch is Carry On Cabby, the first entry in the series to be written by Talbot Rothwell. It started life as a non-Carry On treatment entitled `Call Me a Cab', and is quite different in tone to the series' previous entries, with a stronger central storyline and very little in the way of subplots. This is more obviously a vehicle for top-billed Sidney James, as the wheeler-dealer owner of a taxi firm, and less for the other members of the team who had provided the earlier films with an `ensemble' feel, though Charles Hawtrey shines in one of his best `bungler' parts.
Less satisfying are Carry On Regardless and Carry On Cruising, the final two series entries written by Norman Hudis. The former is a disconnected series of sketches linked together by James' `Helping Hands' odd-job agency, and though a few of the episodes hit the mark (and Kenneth Williams shines as always), the lack of structure irritates, and as a result the film quickly becomes tiresome. The latter, meanwhile, sees James, Williams, Lance Percival and others staffing a studio-bound ocean liner, and is an especially tepid and winsome effort; Kenneth Connor's romantic serenading of Dilys Laye is an especially barf-worthy moment, with the lovelorn Connor coming off like a low-rent Norman Wisdom.
The final film of the four is Carry On Jack, which is nominally a parody of Mutiny on the Bounty (I'm guessing the title refers to a `Jack Tar', an old slang term for a sailor). It's an odd film, with very few of the regular team present (only Williams and Hawtrey from the main roster), whilst supporting roles are taken by somewhat loftier actors like Donald Houston and Cecil Parker. It isn't very funny, and it is surprising to note that this was the series' first period entry, after seven formulaic contemporary comedies. Like Carry On Cabby, it was apparently conceived under another name, `Up the Armada', so perhaps for his first couple of Carry Ons, Rothwell simply dusted off the unproduced comedy scripts in his bottom drawer and changed the titles. Paving the way for the great genre spoofs that were to come, Carry On Jack is nevertheless one of the weakest and least memorable films in the series.
Less satisfying are Carry On Regardless and Carry On Cruising, the final two series entries written by Norman Hudis. The former is a disconnected series of sketches linked together by James' `Helping Hands' odd-job agency, and though a few of the episodes hit the mark (and Kenneth Williams shines as always), the lack of structure irritates, and as a result the film quickly becomes tiresome. The latter, meanwhile, sees James, Williams, Lance Percival and others staffing a studio-bound ocean liner, and is an especially tepid and winsome effort; Kenneth Connor's romantic serenading of Dilys Laye is an especially barf-worthy moment, with the lovelorn Connor coming off like a low-rent Norman Wisdom.
The final film of the four is Carry On Jack, which is nominally a parody of Mutiny on the Bounty (I'm guessing the title refers to a `Jack Tar', an old slang term for a sailor). It's an odd film, with very few of the regular team present (only Williams and Hawtrey from the main roster), whilst supporting roles are taken by somewhat loftier actors like Donald Houston and Cecil Parker. It isn't very funny, and it is surprising to note that this was the series' first period entry, after seven formulaic contemporary comedies. Like Carry On Cabby, it was apparently conceived under another name, `Up the Armada', so perhaps for his first couple of Carry Ons, Rothwell simply dusted off the unproduced comedy scripts in his bottom drawer and changed the titles. Paving the way for the great genre spoofs that were to come, Carry On Jack is nevertheless one of the weakest and least memorable films in the series.
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I bought this for my husband quite a while ago but he still loves to watch them, his laughter in quite infectious!
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