Pluskylang Great Film overall

Acensbart Excellent but underrated film

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

ianlouisiana "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.

Jackson Booth-Millard This fifth film in the popular British series of alluring comedy films is probably the only one that doesn't really have a storyline, but the theme is a good hook. Basically a variety of characters are complaining that all jobs that are advertised are boring, and the ones they are interested in disappear. Then they are brought to the Helping Hands agency, run by Bert Handy (Sid James), a new enterprise that specialises in helping people in any kind of odd jobs, these jobs aren't just odd, they're strange in most cases. So Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor) is contacted to be a babysitter for Penny Panting (Fenella Fielding) who really wants company and then to make her husband jealous, Francis Courtenay (Kenneth Williams) is looking after a pet chimpanzee for a woman with flu, and Lily Duveen (Joan Sims) is taking invitation cards for a wine tasting evening which she boozes in. Bert gets himself into a job himself as well, when Sir Theodore (Kynaston Reeves) wants him to take his place in a hospital queue, but he ends up being mistaken for him not as a patient but an inspector, looking over the wards, and some new nurses in their underwear and bras. Francis gets two more jobs, first modelling in a bee-keepers helmet, and then with his knowledge of languages translating for a bickering couple with the wife being German, while Sam is desperate to quit smoking, but can't, oh and Gabriel Dimple (Charles Hawtrey) is helping out at a boxing match, and he ends up being the opponent in the ring when he is insulted, and he wins. Next Sam is over the moon when he thinks he has found a job as a top secret spy, he believes he is expected at the Forth Bridge in Scotland, but it was a mix up and he was actually meant to play the card game bridge. When he returns all the new employees of Helping Hands are teaming up to demonstrate some new products for the Ideal House exhibition, of course this doesn't go well as mishaps ensue while trying to work everything. The final scene sees Bert joining all his employees as they make what might be a last attempt to impress a high paying gibberish talking customer, repairing an old mansion falling apart, but in the end the guy changes his mind allows them to carry on regardless. Also starring Liz Fraser as Delia King, Bill Owen as Mike Weston, Hattie Jacques as Sister, Terence Longdon as Montgomery Infield-Hopping, Joan Hickson as Matron, Esma Cannon as Miss Cooling and Stanley Unwin as Landlord. The cast as usual make you laugh with their enjoyable individual characters, the film is filled with the usual double meaning dialogue, the saucy stuff, a little innuendo, and some slapstick that will certainly make you chuckle, a fun comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Good!

rps-2 The Carry On movies at one time were the very soul of British humour. I used to love them. And I have fond memories of a London stage Review "Carry On London" on one of my first visits there in the sixties. But, alas, the movies, at least this one, have not worn well. I eagerly looked forward to watching this item when it turned up on one of our specialty channels. After all, Sid James is/was a very funny man! But, sad to say, I found it trite, predictable, clichéd,dated,juvenile and not really all that funny. I guess it was right for the times, a product pre-dating IRA bombing campaigns, the common market and the Americanization of English life. But in 2005, unlike some other "oldies", it just doesn't make it.

Christopher Moore This is a great Carry On. The unemployed group together (under Sid James aka Mr Handy) to provide 'services' to various people for a fee. Special treat is Stanley Unwin who is desperately trying to warn them of their impending eviction, but due to his gobbldygook language, they don't understand. Until Kenneth Williams (an equally skilled orator) comes to the rescue. Best bit definitely Kenneth Connor in the Gentlemans club. Almost as good - Kenneth Williams walking the Chimp, Kenneth Williams interpreting for the German Woman, Kenneth Connor and Joan Simms (No sweets, no draws), Stanley Unwin all the time, Charles Hawtrey boxing ..... no, there's too many good bits to recount.