Excellent but underrated film

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

This is indeed one of the funniest of the Carry On films. It captures the mood of the late 1960's, free spirits and all that, albeit in a slightly comfortable old fashioned way.All the best characters are present and correct, or should that be incorrect.A mention should be made of the sheer brilliance of Terry Scott and Betty Marsden in this, as a dysfunctional married couple. The way she, all jolly hockey sticks, chatters on, so happily, interspersed with that incredible LAUGH of hers, which could potentially drive one insane. This is all the more tragicomic-ally apparent by the way Terry makes thoroughly horrid side comments and fed up facial expressions while she yaps and laughs away, apparently oblivious to his being thoroughly cheesed off. Yet, despite all of this, you get the feeling that he depends on her so much! Why is he sticking with her otherwise!The best scene involving them is when pathetic damp camper Charles Hawtrey, who has lost his tent, stumbles upon them and ends up sharing their tent in a remote field of an evening, as she takes pity on him. He is a bit self conscious about intruding in such a small intimate space, and acknowledges that Mr and Mrs might want to be alone. She asks why, with a bewildered expression. And then, after a second, realising what he means, she laughs and guffaws in her loud inwards/outwards diabolical screech.Oh, I see what you mean. Oh, ha ha ha ha ha! We gave up doing that sort of thing years ago, didn't we, she says to Terry.Yes you did, didn't you, replies Terry, through gritted teeth.It's the dark, almost menacing, look on his face as he says this, with the gormless bespectacled Hawtrey sitting next to him, which makes this brief scene absolutely hilarious! Needless to say, Terry and Tuneless get it right in the end. This is just one example of how all the folk involved mismanage how to muddle on in this simply classic Carry On film.

I don't consider the Carry On movies the best movies I have seen or anything, but I do find them very entertaining. Carry on Camping is for me one of the better movies of the series, it is very funny and lively. It is perhaps too short, and the big slapstick finale was a wee bit of a disappointment compared to other scenes of the film such as the wonderful double entendre incidents. That said, it looks great, one of the better-looking Carry Ons I think, the music is quirky, the direction is lively and the film moves quickly. Not to mention a nice story, some hilarious dialogue and some of the funnier comedy set pieces from any Carry On movie. And the cast are on top form- Sidney James has a ball as an unlikely hippy, Kenneth Williams is delightful as pretty much always, Barbara Windsor brightens up the screen with her presence, Charles Hawtrey is hilarious and Peter Butterworth has possibly his finest hour as the miserly site owner. Overall, very entertaining, high art it isn't, but fun it is. 8/10 Bethany Cox

This is the "pur sang"of "Carry on",the benchmark against which all other examples of the genre must be compared and found wanting.Here is everything that the self - appointed comedy fascists who want to tell us what we can and can't laugh at detest. Nearly every taboo they have tried to impose is gleefully smashed in very short order.This movie is proof that freedom of expression in art has been brutally repressed,presumably in the name of progress.Since the demise of "'allo,'allo" on TV nothing as remotely as funny as the most average "Carry on" has been allowed on our screens at home,presumably on the grounds that we might laugh at it and cause the end of civilisation as the Highgate Mafia imagine it.The scene in the tent with Miss Brown and Meesrs Scott and Hawtrey is brilliantly done - Laurel and Hardy would have been proud to have made it. Wonderful comedy actors are given a brilliantly funny script.That's all there is to it.It will make you laugh immoderately - I guarantee it. "Carry on Camping" - even the title is a little bit whoops dearie -was not considered to be anything particularly special at the time it was released,yes it was funny,but in an era of funny films it sort of got lost in the mix;Carry on fans loved it of course,but it had a relatively short shelf life and it needed the invention of the VCR to resurrect it and eventually lift it to its proper place at the top of the pantheon of British movie comedy. Be happy that,up to now,the intellectuals have not "discovered" the "Carry on" canon and "explained" the hell out of it.to us peasants. Fearfully I can envisage the day when the "Post - Modern - Ironic" brigade decide that Sid James is the new Jacques Tati,i.e. not actually funny.Until then let's happily accept that Sid,Hattie,Babs,Hawtrey and the others were the finest movie comics in British cinema and man the barricades against the intellectualisation of the last bastion of working - class humour.

This is the one, out of all 31 carry on films, this is the very best, you have got the whole team, Sid, Kenneth, Joan, Hattie, Charles, Bernard and Peter all causing mischief in this fantastic Carry On Camping. Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers have done it, they have created one of the best comedy films of the sixties (my opinion).What a good idea of them to come up with a carry on that involves the whole gang out in a field, in tents etc. Bernard Bresslaw is hilarious when he rips through the tent roof. Kenneth Williams's fantastic performance as usual and Terry Scott a hero, continued to work although ill.One of my very favourite Carry Ons and i know many others will like it too!