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Carry On Camping [VHS] [1968]

VHS ~ Kenneth Williams
4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott
  • Directors: Gerald Thomas
  • Writers: Larry, Talbot Rothwell
  • Producers: Peter Rogers
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • VHS Release Date: 16 Jun 1997
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CIG1
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 4,198 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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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 By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years.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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Made in 1969, Carry On Camping belongs to the Golden Years before the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness. 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 suburban, 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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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Technically ropey, but who cares, we love it, 19 Aug 2007
By Lou Knee (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Carry On Camping [DVD] [1968] (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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars CLASSIC CARRY ON, 24 Sep 2000
By ianphillips@uk.dreamcast.com (BOLTON, LANCASHIRE, ENGLAND) - See all my reviews
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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Carry-On Caper - in Wide Screen format., 12 Jun 2000
This review is from: Carry On Camping [DVD] [1968] (DVD)
Anybody who knows Carry On films will want this classic in their collection. Good sound track, AND a 16:9 wide screen format too. Extra interesting documentaries and facts also included.
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4.0 out of 5 stars We're all going on a summer holiday
The Carry On team pokes fun at an old established british tradition or two in Carry On Camping.

Back in the days before discovering Majorca, British holidays meant... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Gerry O'neill

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as great as its reputation would have it
For me, Carry on Camping has never quite lived up to the promise. It takes too long to get going (witness the drawn-out scenes as the campers all try to get to the campsite), and... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Mr. C. M. Humphries

4.0 out of 5 stars Carry on Camping - A Classic
Carry on Camping still seems funny after so many years. It's corny, its saucy, full of double meanings and slapstick situations, it holds your attention from start to finish... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Guylott

2.0 out of 5 stars Carry on camping
this film isn't exactly what i would call a real classic. sure, it has all the usual actors but it doen't any humourous moments, like some of the other films in the series. Read more
Published 21 months ago by robertwhitley

5.0 out of 5 stars a real classic
carry on camping,1968,and the 17th carry on,is one of the most recognisable ones,up there with carry on doctor and abroad perhaps,carry on camping is a film that has never... Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2007 by sean paul mccann

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the cheekiest and funniest
Carry on camping straddles that happy period between the inventive but rather dull early carry ons and the overly crude and suggestive later films. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2006 by Bruno

3.0 out of 5 stars Still mildly amusing
The "Carry On" films are now almost quaint and nostalgic with their familiar combination of double-entendres, slapstick ,pretty girls and old bags. Read more
Published on 20 Sep 2005 by L. Davidson

5.0 out of 5 stars Camping It Up
Well, this is the best film in its genre for saucy Britcom, with all the main plyaers making it a very funny and very watchable move. Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars you cannot fault it...the best
carry ons will stay with us for ever and ever, im far too young to remember these the first time around. Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2004 by samyneil

3.0 out of 5 stars Better in the memory than on the screen!
This film is remembered primarily for Babs Windsor's exercise routine. If you can remember any of the gags, and you haven't seen this film in the past 48 hours, you're doing very... Read more
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