Overrated and overhyped

A different way of telling a story

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The Carry On series were wonderful satirical films that like Mel Brooks took on a particular genre of film and went to town with spoofing. But Carry On Behind went back over some familiar ground that the troupe previously trod over in Carry On Camping. In addition series regulars Sid James and Charles Hawtrey are not in Carry On Behind. Not all the regulars were available for all films at any given point. But it somehow doesn't seem an official Carry On film without them.Kenneth Williams plays an archeology professor who with a visiting Russian colleague Elke Sommer has discovered a site near Hadrian's Wall which he believes will yield artifacts. So the two go on a dig. As it turns out their site is right on a campsite where the British vacationing public bring their trailers and set up camp. The director of the camp is Kenneth Connor and he's not terribly thrilled with the dig. But he's got enough problems of his own with just his campers.Seeing Sommer trying to seduce the diffident Williams provided a lot of laughs. As did Joan Sims myna bird saying all kinds of inappropriate things. And of course the hazards created when one is digging all kinds of holes.Still it's ground covered before and Carry On Behind just doesn't seem right without James and Hawtrey,

Carry on Behind is nowhere near the atrocities Emmanuelle, Columbus and England are, but it was disappointing. And no, it is not to do with the fact Sidney James and Talbot Rothwell are missing, though they were a prime reason why the Carry Ons of the 60s were so enjoyable. The film does have some great set and costume design, the score is good and Kenneth Williams and Elke Sommer are a lot of fun. However, the story is thin and unfocused while trying to combine caravan holiday capers and archaeological high jinks, while the script is pretty much dreadful with the innuendo well and truly smutty and unfunny especially. The direction isn't great either, while Bernard Breeslaw, Kenneth Connor and Joan Sims who are so good when they have a good script and character are restricted by underused supporting roles. Overall, not atrocious but very disappointing. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Oh dear.In a desperate attempt to keep up with the Paul Raymond/Fiona Richmond era of tacky English semi - porn,the "Carry On" production team came up with this absolute stinker.They even had the gall to use the same location as the immortal "Carry on Camping" as if they were hoping that some of the magic might brush off onto the dandruff - ridden crumpled shoulders of this dirty mac of a movie.Well,I promise you it didn't.With "Carry on Behind",the comedy lights went out all over Pinewood. It has none of the innocent,cheery, Music Hall quality of the earlier movies,here we see unpleasant sneering jokes that demean women.Even a performer like Mr Kenneth Williams - a master at transforming poor material - can do nothing with this trash.He looks tired and dispirited. When he fell into a cesspit he probably felt a deep sense of relief. Two of the cast of the current TV hit "It ain't half hot mum!" make an appearance but were clearly uncomfortable with a script that makes the Croft/Perry series seem like the work of Noel Coward.In particular Mr Windsor Davies - a very funny man - is wasted in the role of a randy butcher off for a weekend's leering with the near - catatonic Mr Jack Douglas. Mr Bresslaw and Miss Sims both seem vaguely embarrassed.Mr Connor is very bad as a retired army officer. As dear Oscar once said,"There is nothing so old - fashioned as being absolutely up - to - date".With its flowery shirts,flares,silly hair,crap colour and pointy collars,"Carry on behind" was on the button archetypal mid 70s - there was even an Austin Maxi.But,more than nearly any other "Carry on",it has aged badly.Like Don Revie's Leeds Utd and the Bay City Rollers it is best forgotten.

This film is a good film!. Not as good as Dick but a good film. It is a return to the modern world as the last film was set in 1750 we are now back into the 1970s..Any way the film is based around a caravan site there is a good combination of actors and characters.Bernard Bresslaw is great as Arthur Upmore , Patsy Rowlands is also very good as his wife. Windsor Davies and Jack Douglas are the Sid and Bernie characters as in carry on camping.Joan Sims is a little weak in this carry on not as good as in Dick.Elke Sommer is great as Anna Vooskha as is Kenneth Williams as professor Roland crump. Kenneth Connor is just as funny as ever. Peter Butterworth is the Mr fiddler type character as in Camping. Its a nice return for Liz Frazer who was last seen back in 1963 in Cabby? i think. Ian lavender is very good as the long suffering dog owner his wife Norma Baxter who loves her dog who keeps going into the Upmores tent. Carol and Sandra the birds who Jack and Windsor are after. A talking Mynah bird escapes and creates havoc all over the campsite. Overall a great carry on after this things took a turn for the worst and by 1976 the carry on series was dead and buried.As mentioned the plot is very similar to carry on camping with Carol and Sandra being the Babs and Fanny characters. Most of the last few where remakes of earlier films. Behind = Camping,the film has no real plot just sketches as in loving and Regardless. England is another version of carry on Seargeant , Colombus= Jack.Most of the locations in this film where used in earlier film and makes you pine for Sid and Babs. Barbara Windsor would have been good in this film.Overall 10/10