- Actors: Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Dilys Laye
- Directors: Gerald Thomas, Ralph Thomas
- Writers: Eric Barker, Norman Hudis
- Producers: Peter Rogers
- Language English
- Classification: U
- Studio: Warner
- VHS Release Date: 7 May 2001
- Run Time: 89 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00004CIG5
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 6,541 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Well, the gang's all here, but Carry On Cruising isn't one of the classics of the series. This may be partly due to the film's well-intentioned stab at some sort of authenticity, being set as it is on a genuine cruise liner rather than in a studio full of cheap sets. It swiftly becomes apparent that the cramped environment isn't well suited to the kind of slapstick which is usually a key ingredient in any Carry On film. Veteran couch spuds will recall that the TV series Triangle was similarly disadvantaged, except that it wasn't supposed to be funny. As ever, though, the brilliant cast-in-residence manage to make the most of the situation. The plot, such as it is, deals with the tribulations which beset a world-weary captain (James) when he realises he's been saddled with a crew of misfits and incompetents (practically everybody else) on a cruise which is of course supposed to offer its passengers every comfort and convenience. If there's a single outstanding performance it has to be that of Lance Percival's chef, whose cheeriness as he presides over his various culinary experiments is extremely funny in a menacing sort of way.
On the DVD: The DVD issue has no additional features. --Roger Thomas
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Captain Wellington Crowther is bemused to find that for his 10th anniversary cruise aboard the SS Happy Wanderer, his crew consists of some newbies. Who on a first meeting with the Captain appear to be inept and destined to make a hash of the job in hand.
The Carry On movies are of course something of a British institution. Blending saucy postcard humour with slap-stick, it's a film franchise that has as many fans as it does detractors. One thing most British cinema fans can agree on is that when the series was good {Carry On Cleo} it was bona fide funny, and naturally the flip-side of that was when it was bad it was darn near desperate {Carry On England}. Carry On Cruising falls somewhere in the middle.
After securing a budget of almost £150,000, director Gerald Thomas and producer Peter Rogers decided to make this film the first Carry On picture in colour. Minus franchise stalwart Charles Hawtrey {who after having an attack of star-man ego was promptly replaced by Lance Perceval}, Carry On Cruising lacks a certain character dynamic that was a mainstay in the series highlights. Perceval is actually very good {it was his only Carry On appearance}, but with no Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor, it's left to Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Sid James to carry the weight of the film. But with James in an unusually light and restrained role {Crowther}, there's just not enough mirth to fully please the majority of viewers.
I've personally been in lust with both Liz Fraser and Dilys Laye since forever, but they are poor comedy substitutes for the absent buxom comedienne's mentioned prior. Both ladies, in fact all in the film are outshone by Esma Cannon who is on excellently endearing Batty Biddie form. Williams and Connor do well enough with Norman Hudis' weak, and what was to be his last Carry On screenplay, and some well put together skits just about save the film from being a stinker {or should that be sinker?}. So average at best, and not one to readily be revisited often, but with this franchise you sometimes have to take the rough with the smooth. 5.5/10
The Carry On movies are of course something of a British institution. Blending saucy postcard humour with slap-stick, it's a film franchise that has as many fans as it does detractors. One thing most British cinema fans can agree on is that when the series was good {Carry On Cleo} it was bona fide funny, and naturally the flip-side of that was when it was bad it was darn near desperate {Carry On England}. Carry On Cruising falls somewhere in the middle.
After securing a budget of almost £150,000, director Gerald Thomas and producer Peter Rogers decided to make this film the first Carry On picture in colour. Minus franchise stalwart Charles Hawtrey {who after having an attack of star-man ego was promptly replaced by Lance Perceval}, Carry On Cruising lacks a certain character dynamic that was a mainstay in the series highlights. Perceval is actually very good {it was his only Carry On appearance}, but with no Joan Sims, Jim Dale, Bernard Bresslaw, Hattie Jacques and Barbara Windsor, it's left to Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Sid James to carry the weight of the film. But with James in an unusually light and restrained role {Crowther}, there's just not enough mirth to fully please the majority of viewers.
I've personally been in lust with both Liz Fraser and Dilys Laye since forever, but they are poor comedy substitutes for the absent buxom comedienne's mentioned prior. Both ladies, in fact all in the film are outshone by Esma Cannon who is on excellently endearing Batty Biddie form. Williams and Connor do well enough with Norman Hudis' weak, and what was to be his last Carry On screenplay, and some well put together skits just about save the film from being a stinker {or should that be sinker?}. So average at best, and not one to readily be revisited often, but with this franchise you sometimes have to take the rough with the smooth. 5.5/10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:VHS Tape
I love all the 'Carry On' movies - this goes without saying being a big fan of the entire series, but we all have our favourites. However, this is not one of the funniest for my liking.
A few laughs here and there with a very entertaining performance from Esma Cannon as 'Miss Madderley', but other than this, this one appears just a 'filler' for the series before it was to 'find its feet' in my opinion.
It's worth noting that 'Carry On Cruising' is best-remembered for being the first movie in the series to be filmed in glorious colour!
A few laughs here and there with a very entertaining performance from Esma Cannon as 'Miss Madderley', but other than this, this one appears just a 'filler' for the series before it was to 'find its feet' in my opinion.
It's worth noting that 'Carry On Cruising' is best-remembered for being the first movie in the series to be filmed in glorious colour!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
'Cleo', 'Khyber', 'Camping' - this much underrated Carry On surpasses them all.
This is the one that was made on the cusp - the first in colour, the last scripted by Norman Hudis, before the distinctly broader Talbot Rothwell took over the pen. It is also, obviously unconsciously, showing a Britain on the cusp too; watching these silly, varied, sometimes foolish but essentially civilised characters interacting - well, one only has to watch some of the idiot crudities of the later Carry Ons to see that 'the past is a different country ' indeed.
Leaving all that aside, it is the best acted of the lot, perfectly cast to the smallest roles, from Captain Sid James down. It is the best scripted, too, the various plotlines interweave then resolve in a deeply satisfactory and ultimately moving way - and it is just plain funny but with the humour varying from the slapstick to the positively Restoration ('I do not say that I hope that you choke - I merely gloat at the possibility') And Kenneth Williams is NOT mugging and all the better for it.
This one is well overdue for reassessment.
[I have subsequently discovered that the sub par and monochrome 'Carry on Spying' was Hudis' last, and it unfortunately cost him the gig. Very unfortunately, as his subsequent script for 'Carry on Sherlock' did not make it to the screen - that would have been something!]
This is the one that was made on the cusp - the first in colour, the last scripted by Norman Hudis, before the distinctly broader Talbot Rothwell took over the pen. It is also, obviously unconsciously, showing a Britain on the cusp too; watching these silly, varied, sometimes foolish but essentially civilised characters interacting - well, one only has to watch some of the idiot crudities of the later Carry Ons to see that 'the past is a different country ' indeed.
Leaving all that aside, it is the best acted of the lot, perfectly cast to the smallest roles, from Captain Sid James down. It is the best scripted, too, the various plotlines interweave then resolve in a deeply satisfactory and ultimately moving way - and it is just plain funny but with the humour varying from the slapstick to the positively Restoration ('I do not say that I hope that you choke - I merely gloat at the possibility') And Kenneth Williams is NOT mugging and all the better for it.
This one is well overdue for reassessment.
[I have subsequently discovered that the sub par and monochrome 'Carry on Spying' was Hudis' last, and it unfortunately cost him the gig. Very unfortunately, as his subsequent script for 'Carry on Sherlock' did not make it to the screen - that would have been something!]
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great comedic set pieces
Fancy a holiday? . Well you are guaranteed to find all smiles and laughter aboard the good ship SS Happy Wanderer presided over by 'H' dropping Captain Crowther and his crew. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Rebecca
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Published on 22 May 2006 by Ian Phillips
lovely liz fraser in colour
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