Runtime: 85 rather unpleasant minutes
Directed by: Gerald Thomas
Starring: Some of the usual crew plus some others… likely most of them regret appearing in the film
From: The Rank Organisation
‘I finally saw a bad Carry On movie—and ooh boy was this bad. It’s been months since viewing any movie in this venerable franchise; as I’ve had many followers since then, it only makes sense for me to link the list of the ones I’ve tackled & reviewed before. It’s a silly series full of bawdy humor & randy men but besides the busty women that were prominent, there was plenty of clever wordplay and other puns that typically amused me… and there’s always a few women that take no crap from the dumb males. Typically, it’s familiar faces playing their expected roles in different setting but those talented performers always at least made me chuckle.
This was what I consider to be the last Carry On movie. I know there was a disaster of an attempt in ’92 with Carry On Columbus; its reputation is so bad I refuse to watch it! An actual Emmanuelle picture has never been tackled before; it is softcore smut, or so I hear. Emmannuelle is just a tired, lame “comedy” which lurched from scene to scene-things just happen out of nowhere to propel the plot forward. The title character visits her husband Kenneth Williams in London as he’s the French ambassador (both have accents best described as Pepe Le Pew) and she’s constantly horny. She gets involved with other men and yeah, it’s just lame.
I felt rather bad for Williams, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor and Peter Butterworth-all series veterans who had important roles in many franchise entries. Even they seemed to phone this one in, realizing what a boondoggle it was. Something went sour when not even Kenneth Williams could entertain me. Perhaps the soundtrack should have been a funeral dirge instead… speaking of that, the actual soundtrack is OK but, on several occasions, a catchy disco tune is heard. That is no reason to ever give this a shot regardless of how many Carry On films that have been viewed before.
The world has changed (in film or out of it) since the series began twenty years ago. Movies became more adult & explicit so Carry On trying to keep it up… er, keep up, just didn’t feel right and this picture was just crass. The lack of laughs and general poor filmmaking craft also sunk this project. A shame that a franchise with 31 entries eventually fell off—on the other hand, I’ve viewed half of these now and the fact that (IMO) the series ranged from good to pretty good right until the last few entries is rather impressive.
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