The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Big screen and small screen medical dramas get their dose of satire from the Carry On troupe in Carry On Doctor. Usually those are solemn and serious when performed but none when this crowd does it.Young Dr. Kilmore played by Jim Dale is an earnest well meaning sort of doctor even if he is a bit of a klutz. The patients in the ward like him even if the higher ups in the hospital don't. They include the head doctor Kenneth Williams and the head nurse Hattie Jacques. When a series of colossal and hysterically funny accidents put Dale on the hospital roof looking like he's enjoying a little slap and tickle with a patient, that's enough to get him fired.Those patients though consisting of folks like Sid James, Frankie Howerd, and Charles Hawtrey aren't about to lose their favorite doctor. He's valuable to them like Captain Parmenter was to Sergeant O'Rourke on F Troop. Things get righted in their universe with a lot of laughs along the way and many jokes about bodily secretions.Howerd's got some good moments as a motivational speaker who believes that doctors are superfluous until a big fall on his derrière lands him in hospital. Even funnier is Hawtrey as a man going through sympathetic labor pains with his wife on the birth of their first child.You'll never watch St. Elsewhere with quite the same view again after seeing Carry On Doctor.

This entry in the 'Carry On' series doesn't really have a plot; for the most part it is just a series of amusing incidents happening on a hospital ward. The film opens with Frankie Howerd giving a talk on how doctors aren't needed as good health is just a case of positive thinking... till he falls off the stage and sprains his back. Once he is in hospital we meet the other patients; Sid James, who is faking his illness to get away from his wife; Charles Hawtrey, who is suffering from a sympathetic pregnancy and Bernard Bresslaw who is recovering from an appendectomy and has a thing for one of the patients on the women's ward. Looking after them we have Hattie Jacques playing the matron as always and Jim Dale and Kenneth Williams as doctors Kilmore and Tinkle. There is a bit of plot towards the end when Dr. Kilmore sees trainee nurse Barbara Windsor on the roof and things she is about to jump when in reality she is just sunbathing... in his attempted rescue she thinks he is a peeping tom, he slips on the roof and pulls off another nurse's dress and falls through a window and lands in another nurse's bath... this leads to his dismissal but the patients will do what it takes to get him reinstated.There are a decent number of amusing scenes; I particularly liked it when Frankie Howerd overheard a conversation about how he would only be around for another week and assumed they meant that was how long he had to live... this gets even funnier when somebody comes round to measure the bed for new sheets and he thinks he is being measured for a coffin! I'm sure fans of the series will enjoy this as most of the regulars are to be seen even if some do have fairly small roles. Anybody familiar with the series will know what to expect of course; plenty of slightly risqué jokes, a modicum of slapstick and some wonderfully groan-worthy puns but nothing really offensive.

I have always liked/loved the Carry on movies, and this is no exception. I do agree that the story is thin, it is, but the humour and cast elevate it. The humour is very bawdy but it never ceases to be hilarious, whether in the script or the innuendos. The film looks pretty good too, the music is quirky, the direction is solid and the film goes along at a good pace. The cast are great as per usual, it was wonderful to see all of those I love. Sidney James, who was genuinely bedridden for much of the film is good still, while Kenneth Williams is very funny as the sneering consultant. Jim Dale is funny and charming as the clumsy Dr Kilmore and Frankie Howerd makes for an impressive series debut. But Charles Hawtrey steals the show as he experiences the pangs of a "sympathetic" pregnancy. Overall, a fun entry in the series. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Not up to the level of their best stuff, but far from the level of the Carry On team's weakest, this entry is as usual silly but entertaining. Some of the jokes are plainly obvious, but there are a few laugh-out-loud moments to make up for the tamer and lamer gags. The acting is good, but hardly the best that the team has displayed. It is however excess length that is the prime weakness here. The final fifteen minutes or so are very weak, and could have been handled better. Otherwise, this is simple, amusing fun, although 'Carry On Again Doctor' comes more highly recommend than this, and despite the title, the two films share as much in common as any of the Carry On films do.