Coming hot on the heels of the bloated, hugely expensive Elizabeth Taylor Cleopatra, the Carry On team put their own unique spin on the Julius Caesar / Cleopatra / Mark Antony triangle, intermingled with the exploits of two enslaved Britons.
The Carry Ons were made on a shoestring budget which, in this case, is made to look much larger and more effective than it was: there are some terrific colourful costumes and sets.
But it's all about the cast and script, of course. The script is the usual mixture of knockabout farce and smutty innuendo, seasoned with a batch of anachronistic gags, not to mention the iconic "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" And the cast are, as usual, great, being joined by Amanda Barrie as a cartoony and cute Cleopatra in which one can see the seeds of Miranda Richardson's Blackadder 2 Queenie.
This is huge fun.
The Carry Ons were made on a shoestring budget which, in this case, is made to look much larger and more effective than it was: there are some terrific colourful costumes and sets.
But it's all about the cast and script, of course. The script is the usual mixture of knockabout farce and smutty innuendo, seasoned with a batch of anachronistic gags, not to mention the iconic "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!" And the cast are, as usual, great, being joined by Amanda Barrie as a cartoony and cute Cleopatra in which one can see the seeds of Miranda Richardson's Blackadder 2 Queenie.
This is huge fun.