I grew up in early teenage years when the Carry On films were dying out. When I looked back on the history of the films I found I didn't get on with the very early ones or the very late ones. The best were in the mid to late sixties. This one, from 1970, is such a departure from those sixties films, but has the same writer in Talbot Rothwell. What went wrong? I can only assume he had an off-day. Where are the clever words, the clever double entendres rather than in-your-face single entendres that we get? It seems very much like a theatre farce and the success of the films a few years previously, is forgotten. The outright sexism is now so dated which is also a departure from the nod-and-wink sex laughs from the previous films. A subtle change, but an important one. This has to be one of the worst Carry Ons I have ever seen.
Review of Carry on Loving
