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Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Release : | 1961 |
Rating : | 6 |
Studio : | Peter Rogers Productions, |
Crew : | Art Direction, Camera Operator, |
Cast : | Sid James Kenneth Connor Charles Hawtrey Joan Sims Kenneth Williams |
Genre : | Comedy |
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Very best movie i ever watch
Excellent adaptation.
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
"I was looking for someone to make a fourth at bridge",an exasperated Eric Pohlman splutters to Sid James after Kenneth Connor has performed a death - defying leap a la Richard Hannay from a speeding train crossing the Forth Bridge.This is just one of a series of misunderstandings that force Sid's "Helping Hands Ltd"to the verge of extinction,only to be rescued at the last minute by their own serendipitous incompetence whilst working for the sublime Stanley Unwin whose career was brief but ecstatic for the former schoolmaster. Apart from a distinctly unfunny Patrick Cargill in a pre Leslie Phillips Leslie Phillips role,"Carry on Regardless" is inoffensive to all but the most po - faced amongst us.There is lots of good old British cheek of course,but it's innocent enough and nicely played. Like Dorian Gray,the series grew more raddled as time progressed,but fifty years ago when the censor's pencil hanged Damoclese - like over the theatre and the cinema,it was much more of an achievement to slip in a few iffy gags into a "Carry On" than it later became to show full frontal nudity then rape and buggery on stage and screen - to no good purpose in my opinion. Not one of the most typical "Carry On"s,"Regardless" finds the genre approaching the crossroads at which point it got progressively better or progressively worst according to individual taste.It is not the beginning of the but it is the end of the beginning.
With work sparse in England, the labour exchanges have become almost a social club with so many men hanging around without joy. It is in this environment that Bert Handy spots an opening for a firm carrying out any odd-jobs on request and thus the "Helping Hands Agency" is born. Recruiting a gang of odds and sods, Bert quickly finds that there are all manner of jobs out there to be done that don't fit anywhere. However can his men all cope with the sheer range of jobs thrown at them? About 10 minutes into this film I started to realise that this had no plot. At regular intervals from then on this view was reinforced as the film just became a series of sketches using the odd-job company as a frame for setting each one up. This sounds like a criticism because it is but surprisingly it was not a real problem because the sketches are mostly pretty funny and the amusement they make up for the total lack of any actual narrative drive. The sketches mostly stand alone but are not that contrived or forced only the mixed up jobs part is a little forced; the wine tasting, the translated argument, the home improvement show and others are all consistently amusing even if none of them had me rolling in the aisles.The cast all take to the sketch format with their comedy background. James has the least role since he has to act as the glue holding the funny bits together but he does get some laughs and he is rarely less than interesting and amusing. Connor, Williams and Hawtrey all do the characters they had done in the previous four films all of them are funny and they do well in their various sketches. Owen joins the male cast in a minor role while Sims and Fraser are stuck with "pretty young girl" roles which minimise their comic impact a little bit. Support from Jacques, Hickson, Cannon, Alexander and others is good and they make the film feel fuller than it would have done with only the main roles filled with well known faces.Overall on the surface of things this is a plot less mess that has no rhyme or reason to it; however it does set up a series of sketches that are mostly pretty amusing. It won't be remember as fondly as the later Carry On films that produced laughs with a fuller plot and costumes but it is still an enjoyable film that shows how good the group were as comics. Not quite what you think of when you think Carry On but an entertaining collection of sketches nonetheless.
I didn't enjoy this one as much as Carry On Teacher. Altho she hasn't had an outstanding part in one as of yet, I was quite disappointed that dear Hattie's role was very minor.The lack of plot didn't bother me at all. Joan Sims drunken bit was very amusing.The fellow with his odd talk wasn't at all entertaining. Truthfully, if you paid attention, you could half follow what he was implying. The transition of the performers from the first movie, Carry On Sergeant, to this one is interesting to observe, in a mere three or four year period in intriguing.Clearly, this person Kenneth Conner was to be the center of attention. From an American viewpoint, he doesn't shine through.While I didn't enjoy Carry On Constable as much as Teacher, I liked the exterior shots. What few street and outdoor scenes Carry On Regardless had was a bit disappointing as well. I would have just liked more. Well, on to the next one, the first colour Carry On: Carry On Cruising!
This Carry On does not seem to have a story line- it is more of a series of sketches linked together only by "Helping Hands". However this is a good one, NOT quite what the tagline suggests, but a good one. Most of the main stars (to date) are here, and they all get their own sketches. My fav being the Kenneth Williams/Chimp one (But this could be because KW is the best "Carry On-er"!). Other highlights are the Joan Sims' sketch at a wine tasting party and the end scene whare all the gang demolish a house. Apart from Stanley Unwin (I can't stand the way he talks) this is a good-un.