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What makes it different from others?
Keeley Coleman
The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;
Darin
One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.
Paul Evans
I've always regarded 'Carry on at your Convenience' as one of the best in the series. Aside from being full to the brim with lavatorial humour it's also an interesting insight into what life was like back then as far as Unions and workers rights went. Brilliantly filmed at the Royal Doulton factory, a time when the British Potteries were thriving.As for the humour, it contains laugh after laugh, I think the latter part of the film is funnier, when they go on the works outing, the gang look like their having a marvellous time, and as viewers so do we. Kenneth Williams genuinely does steal the film with his W.C. Boggs, and it's the fortune telling scene with Sid and Joan that is the laugh out loud moment. His facial gestures and comical laughs are awesome, what a loss to comedy he was.Great to have all the cast there, it really did make a difference when the entire gang were available, missing of course was Barbara Windsor, but Jackie Piper is lovely as Myrtle.A box office failure, times were different back then, begs the question do Politics and comedy work? Years later the answer is definitely yes!!! It's one of the funniest, 9/10
grahamsp
This has to be up there with Khyber, Loving and Camping. The gags flow thick and fast and Williams is in top form. Kenneth Cope's mother is superb with her dry direct approach while Sid James makes one of his better performances. Best scenes are Sid James as the fortune teller "Williams is brilliant" and Patsy Rowlands and again Williams are brilliant in there own private scenes.Putting James and Jacques together as man and wife works well with Sid constantly delivering killer lines and Joan Sims is given free range with some excellent put downs. A number of Carry On's tend to have a lot of hiatus where nothing happens but Convenience never fails to deliver.
MARIO GAUCI
Considered by many the best ever "Carry On" film, I think I still prefer CARRY ON...UP THE KHYBER (1968) to it, but it's certainly one of the more tolerable entries in the series. Essentially an update of I'M ALL RIGHT, JACK! (1959) in its concern over working conditions in a factory and the frequent strikes ordered by the union's representative (usually over a trifle, or even a technicality in the regulations!), the fact that the manufacture involved is toiletware, the lavatorial humor associated with this team is quite appropriate here - though it never descends to the grossness which seems to be the norm for today's would-be comedies.Most of the regulars of the series can be seen strutting their stuff (though perhaps the most notable contribution is given by newcomer Kenneth Cope as the shop steward) and there's no shortage of lewd remarks but, as I said, it's all done in fun (while these films may have been restricted to adult audiences back in the day, they're quite PG stuff today!). There's still a bit of padding involved - such as Sid James' winnings at the races (following the predictions of his wife's pet bird!), the love triangle involving Cope, Jacki Piper (as James' daughter) and Richard O'Callaghan (as the son of factory boss Kenneth Williams) and especially the lengthy outing in Brighton; all things considered, however, an enjoyable vintage comedy which is ideal viewing for the festive season.
paul-johnson107
Well the team have done it again haven't they! What ever possessed them to make a comedy film based around lavatories i'll never know but who cares? Carry On at your Convienience is packed full of fantastically funny gags, there's the usual cast all together causing mischief down in Brighton on the annual works outing: Sid James as foreman Sid Plummer, Hattie Jacques his wife Beattie Plummer, Kenneth Williams as W.C. Boggs, owner of the factory, Joan Sims, Bernard Bresslaw Charles Hawtreyetc. They are joined by newcomers to the series: Richard O Callaghan, who plays Bogg's Son Mr Lewis, Jacki Piper who played Sid and Hattie's daughter Myrtle and of course leader of the strikes at W.C. Boggs & Sons, Kenneth Cope who plays Vic Spanner, they are supported by wonderful comedy actors such as: Renee Houston, Margaret Nolan etc.A wonderful carry On, ready for the next one, hopefully it will be just as funny so CARRY ON!*
