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Carry On Camping [1968]


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Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

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 By the 1970s, the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness, culminating in 1977's Carry On Emanuelle. 1969's Carry On Camping, thankfully, belongs to the Golden Years.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

Editorial
Amazon.co.uk Review

Made in 1969, Carry On Camping belongs to the Golden Years before the loveable double-entendres had been replaced by an almost nasty sleaziness.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

Carry on camping
Review date: 2007-10-05 Rating: 4 out of 10

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. The ending is just plain embarissing. it made me cringe.
watch this if you a fan.
My son adores this film, i haven't discovered why yet but i've been watching him very closely and i think that some of the scenes are a little to saturating for him to handle.


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Technically ropey, but who cares, we love it
Review date: 2007-08-19 Rating: 10 out of 10

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.

a real classic
Review date: 2007-03-22 Rating: 10 out of 10

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 appeared old and the jokes are still more than capable of creating a smile across your face.
The film has the infamous scene where babs windsor,playing a schoolgirl despite being a lot older,where her bra flies off during exercise class,everyone knows that scene.
The story centres around sid james and bernie bresslaw,who decide they want to take their prissy girlfriends to a nudist camp,sid james is great here as a sleazy enough man who soon lusts after babs as he did in real life,the camp that they attend in the end isnt a nudist camp at all and other guests include terry scott and his wife who lives in a different world,freeloader charles hawtrey who just takes advantage of peoples generosity,kenny williams who along with his school of female pupils and a love struck hattie jacques who decides she loves kenny,much to his horror,the film is packed with naughty harmless jokes and this is the carry on team at their much loved best,check it out if you havent already.

One of the cheekiest and funniest
Review date: 2006-03-11 Rating: 10 out of 10

Carry on camping straddles that happy period between the inventive but rather dull early carry ons and the overly crude and suggestive later films. Here we have just the right balance and we can happily chuckle at 50 something lad Sid James trying to get the 'green light' from 30 something school girl campers Barbara and co.

Still mildly amusing
Review date: 2005-09-20 Rating: 6 out of 10

The "Carry On" films are now almost quaint and nostalgic with their familiar combination of double-entendres, slapstick ,pretty girls and old bags. "Carry on Camping" is typical of the series and features most of the regulars getting up to mischief and naughtiness on a camp site. Sid James is the catalyst for most of the humour, but Terry Scott steals the show as a sex-starved whisky-guzzler reluctantly camping with his slightly deranged wife when he'd much rather be by the Med. Although it was a bit risque in its day, the absence of bad language, sex and violence makes "Carry on Camping" seem tame by todays standards.

Product Details/Specifications


Actor(s):
Sid James
Terry Scott
Charles Hawtrey
Joan Sims
Kenneth Williams

Creators:
Sid James (Primary Contributor)
Charles Hawtrey (Primary Contributor)

Director(s):

Recording label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
EAN: 5037115044631
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: PAL, Special Edition, Widescreen,
Release date: 2003-07-07
Number of discs: 1
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Audience rating: Parental Guidance
Region code: 2
Running time: 136 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1968
Language: English (Original Language)

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