ianlouisiana Review of Carry on at Your Convenience

Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)

Bog standard comedy with Sid,Joan,Ken and Hattie............

[7/10 · 13 May 2009]

Flush with success at a time when British movie comedy was going down the tube,the "Carry On" gang will drive you round the bend with this tale of a strike at a factory making lavatory bowls.There really is no end to the number of toilet gags you can come up with.Add a Works Outing to Brighton and you have the core of "Carry on at your convenience",a worthy addition to the chain (sorry,I promise that's the last one)of brilliant Brit comedies starring many of our most beloved and enduring performers.And this one features the great stage comedienne Miss Renee Houston.....it doesn't get better than this.... Girls with hot pants and kinky boots decorate most scenes,Mr Kenneth Williams is at his very best,Mr Sid James and Miss Joan Sims play a really rather poignant undeclared love scene and Brighton positively glows in glorious 1970s Harrison Marks colour. There are weaknesses amongst the younger members of the cast,but who cares when Sid and Hattie's budgerigar gives them Racing Tips and Mr Hawtrey and Miss Houston - no spring chickens - play Strip Poker in her Boarding House? Hugely underrated,but one of the best of all the "Carry Ons".