SnoReptilePlenty Memorable, crazy movie

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

bkoganbing The last film with the Carry On imprimatur in the title from the United Kingdom was not as bad as a lot would have you believe. But Carry On Columbus which came out in 1992 suffered from the fact that very few of the players who graced the series back in its salad years are in this cast. You long for the presence of Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Charles Hawtrey. But by 1992 three of those four were no longer with us and seeing this you can't help wish they were.Jim Dale who plays Christopher Columbus was the only one in the cast who had Carry On experience to an appreciable degree. Jon Pertwee who did a few of the films in small roles was also in the cast, but a whole new generation of comics and comic players from Great Britain and America grace this cast. The funniest is Julian Clary who plays the morale officer on the Santa Maria and is one of the campiest characters you'll ever want to meet.Poor Columbus, as in history he has this idea about sailing west to find a new route to the Orient and the trade there. But in Carry On Columbus Dale and others have to contend with the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire who gets his cut coming and going through his domain. A new sea route to the Orient would deprive him of considerable revenue, so he's got agents to stop Columbus. And what agents they are.It's not a bad film, but below the standards set by the Carry On regulars in their hay day.

m_pratt This film is poor. The carry on magic is non existent. The remaining carry on regulars have little to do apart from Jim Dale. Cribbins is not bad but better in Jack and Spying. Jack Douglas is poor in this film and looks bored and wishing he was somewhere else. Whitfield and Philips are poor as the king and queen of Spain. Julian Clary is rubbish he cannot act he is unfunny and he is better off acting in the Tweenies!!!. By this time the art of making carry ons was gone. There is no regulars in this film at all. Kenneth Connor was still alive, Joan Sims was still alive Bernard Bresslaw was still alive Frankie Howerd was alive. Patsy Rowlands was still alive. Sid had been dead for 16 years. Hattie Kenny and Charlie has passed on Sadley. Barbara Windsor could have been in this to liven it up a bit. Maureen Lipman is not carry on material. There was no point in casting comedians in place of the original actors they have passed on and they will Sadley missed they where born to act. I heard they where thinking about a new Carry on Carry on London i hope they don't make it it will be sad unfunny and never the same.

Sebastian Carr The original Carry On series has a certain kitsch charm. They were smutty, low budget attempts to appeal to the masses, which broadly succeeded in putting a smile on the nation's face. Great casts of talented comic actors such as Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey and Barbara Windsor gave their all to leave a superb record of the humour of the time. Fourteen years after the original series drew to a close, largely because it was no longer relevant to the country, someone got the bright idea to revive the tradition. I can almost hear the smug conversations as the likes of Julian Clary and Rik Mayall decided to undertake what they thought would be a simple project. How miserably they failed. It is an execrable, ill conceived and poorly executed film, the only purpose of which is to illustrate the quality of the originals.We often bemoan the demise of the British film industry, yet we seem to be almost incapable of turning out any decent films with the resources we have.

Smalling-2 Christopher Columbus, with the help of the Spanish queen, gets on board to discover India. He does America instead, that is full of tricky aborigines.A foolhardy and predictably doomed attempt to get recovered a formula that worn out its date twenty years ago. The once-individual humour of double entendres, sex-overdose and sheer crudity, which has always depended very much on taste, no longer raises even chuckles. Tired antics of a loosely assembled new cast helps no more than the insignificant minority of once-regulars (Jim Dale, June Whitfield, Bernard Cribbins, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Jack Douglas, Peter Gilmore).