Harockerce What a beautiful movie!

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Spikeopath A bunch of out of work folk are delighted when several positions come onto the market at the Helping Hands Agency...As most reviews attest to, this fifth Carry On film barely has a plot to get your hands on. Pic basically takes the seven members of the agency through a series of vignettes, the jobs they are assigned to do ranging from chimp walking to modelling underwear! Each slot allows for some amiable comedic opportunity, the best of which finds Joan Sims getting sloshed at a wine tasting function, Charles Hawtrey landing in a boxing match with a hulking brute, Kenneth Connor involved in a 39 Steps parody, and all of the workers pitched into chaos during an Ideal Homes Exhibition. Back at the Helping Hands office Sid James and his secretary Esma Cannon are flummoxed by the continuous appearance of Stanley Unwin talking his gobbledygook, which all leads to the big finale as the whole cast get to have a grand old time of things. While as usual there's fun to be had spotting the future stars of British TV and film who pop up in cameos.Carry On Regardless finds the creators on safe and amiable ground. It's no high point of the series but it's good fun and lets some under valued comic actors work their respective charms. 7/10

GusF Unlike the other films in the series, this is essentially a sketch comedy film held together by a loose plot. I was sceptical about the sketch format at first and it took a while to get going but I think that it worked very well. The funniest sketches feature Kenneth Williams taking a woman's pet chimp Yoki on a walk around London and taking in a chimp's tea party, Joan Sims getting extremely drunk at a wine tasting event, Sid James being mistaken for one of the finest living diagnosticians at a hospital and Kenneth Connor getting the wrong end of the stick and thinking that he has been hired to work as a spy. The latter is a great parody of pre-Bond British spy films. Those four actors are the strongest performers and get the best material on this occasion.As in sketch shows, not all of them work. The comedic potential of Charles Hawtrey (criminally underused in contrast to most of the other films) working as a bouncer at a strip club is wasted because we never actually see him do it. The four scenes in which Stanley Unwin spouts his trademark gobbledygook are just painful, frankly. On the bright side, as the matron in the hospital sketch, the prim and proper Joan Hickson provides a fantastic contrast to James' leering and dirty jokes. The film has a very good cast such as Hattie Jacques (who only appears in said hospital sketch), Esma Cannon, Fenella Fielding and Terence Alexander. However, the early regular Terence Longdon, making his final appearance in the series, and Bill Owen are basically relegated to cameos and Liz Fraser only has one scene worth mentioning after she parades around in her underwear at the beginning of the film.The aforementioned problems aside, however, it is an extremely funny film which produced plenty of belly laughs. What more can you ask for from a "Carry On" film?

w22nuschler Sid James again leads the cast of Carry On's. We also have Kenneth Conner, Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey. Sid James works at the job placement center called "Helping Hands", and he sends the others out to different jobs. Most of them have funny moments, but there is no real plot involved here. Sid James is the best as always. The movies with him always add a point or two. Kenneth Williams has some good moments in the film. He gets to take care of a monkey and then he does a photo shoot in a bee hat. He thinks they wanted him for his looks and they drop the hat on him at the very last second. Another funny moment has Kenneth Conner sent to a bridge waiting in the rain, the man wanted a fourth for his bridge game. Overall this was a pleasant movie, but lacked the bite of the best ones.

Nicholas Rhodes Despite their being much decried at the time of their release, the Carry on Films are, and will become even more so with time, an integral part of English Comedy Culture. Most of the protagonists of these films are as of today, dead, and nothing as side-splitting has unfortunately come to replace them. They are films you can watch over and over again, when you are feeling down in the mouth, even when you know the stories. In France, the equivalent is called ' L'Equipe du Splendide " who made films of the "Les Bronzés" series during the seventies, but their output was far less prolific and the protagonists are still alive today as far as I know. As for the carry-ons, there are so many of them, that one is never short of a good laugh, and today, there is none of the good light hearted humour of those fifties and sixties. Unfortunately, the late twentieth century plague called "political correctness" has seen to that and what a shame it is too ! Carry on regardless is one of the funniest carry-ons, unfortunately in Black and White, but with the added attraction of Stanley Unwin speaking "gobbledygook" (charabia) and this had me reeling in fits of laughter. Mind you, I'd already seen Stanley several times on English TV years ago but I can't remember in what context. Anyway, carry on watching ..............they're nearly all now available on DVD for about £10 or 15 € !!!