Carry On Camping (1969)

I know the Carry On films were very popular--after all, they made 1038312 of them (more of less). However, as an American who did NOT grow up watching them (and no one in the States did), I have a very, very hard time understanding why they were so loved. After all, at least to me, they look like an extended episode of "The Benny Hill Show" with actual nudity along with all the smarmy and low-brow humor....very, very low-brow humor.This installment finds two morons trying to get their girlfriends to accompany them to a nudist colony by tricking them. When I said it reminded me of Benny Hill--but this also looked like a 1980s slutty teen comedy but with older and unattractive leads. If you LIKE smutty humor that has absolutely no cleverness or finesse, then this film is for you! In addition to genuinely broad and dim writing, there are some horribly broad performances. The worst was the guy who played Dr. Soaper--most 6 year-olds are more subtle and professional! Not all the actors are THAT bad, but most are at least in the same ballpark as Soaper.I am sorry, but I am the dissenting voice. I hated this film and just saw it as smutty and unfunny. About 2/3 the way through the movie, I just turned it off--life is too short.

This is one of the better Carry On films, where the gang goes on holiday to a camp. Sid James is great as Sid Boggle. He thought he was taking his girlfriend to a nudist camp, but it turns out not to be. There are many comic moments from Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw, amongst others. Barbara Windsor has a few eye popping scenes, and is fun throughout. The jokes are obvious, full of sexual innuendo, but thats what you expect, and that just makes the film even better. If you like the Carry On films, this is one you would not want to miss. A quintessential British comedy, I enjoyed it immensely. I think you will, too.

This is perhaps the quintessential "Carry On" film, which also means that it's terribly dated when viewed today! That said, it's quite funny scene by scene – even if the plot itself is alarmingly thin and disjointed.In fact, it follows three separate narrative threads during the first half which then come together: one involving Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw and their girlfriends, sisters Joan Sims and Dilys Laye; another with bickering couple Terry Scott and Betty Marsden, who pick up annoying drifter Charles Hawtrey along the way; and the members of a finishing school (including perky Barbara Windsor) and led by the series' all-too-typically reserved authority figures – namely Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. With this film, the bawdiness which has since become synonymous with the series really took off – beginning with the very opening sequence, which finds James et al in a cinema showing a documentary about a nudist campsite!; a scene in which James and Bresslaw spy on the women's baths through a hole in the wall was subsequently much imitated.Many of the film's best moments highlight Terry Scott – exaggerating his afternoon activity when asked by the wife how it was, knowing full well she isn't lending him the slightest attention; his encounter with a bull in a field; at the end, when he takes stock of the situation in his tent and forcibly throws out Hawtrey. Popular British starlet Valerie Leon, who appeared in a number of "Carry Ons", has a bit here as a salesgirl. By the way, CARRY ON CAMPING was trimmed by the BBFC on its original release; ironically, it ended up being the highest grossing film of the year in the U.K.!

The carry on movies just aren't know for being subtle and are filled with sexist and sexual orientated jokes. The fact that it's a '60's movie and all of the men are ugly 40-50-60 year old, who are chasing young beautiful women in their 20's or early 30's makes the jokes and movie as a whole even more dirtier. These sort of movies were quite popular in the 60's and 70's and there are quite some British movies such as this one. No way a movie such as this one could had been made in the United States at the same time. As a matter of fact you still can't really make a movie such as this one and get away with it. I sort of like this boldness and totally political incorrectness. It's so wrong that it actually becomes funny."Carry on Camping" is of course a movie with loads of hits and misses. It also is often so bad and cheaply made that the movie becomes funny because of its amateurism and simplicity. A real campy comedy!It has an incredible disjointed story-line, that features loads of characters, who don't really share any connectivity, aside from the fact that they are on the same camping. It sort of disappointing when looking at the story-lines they came up with. I am convinced even I myself could had come up with better and more funny ones and so could you have! I mean, the movie focuses on the dreadful thing called camping. This concept screams for more and better thought off jokes, no matter how stereotypical they all would had been.It's quite disgusting to see these ugly over 50 year old (Sid James was 56 but looked 66 and Charles Hawtrey was 55 chasing these well formed young girls that are in the prime of their life. And the girls are all more than happy to let all these guys get in their tents and take their clothes off at every possible occasion. It's so wrong to watch! But maybe also very funny because of that.So, this really isn't a great or greatly made movie. Nevertheless I still always enjoy watching these sort of 'carry on' type of movies because of its very amateurism and silliness-factor. Long life political incorrect movies!4/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/