Really Surprised!

Boring

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

By 1969, the Carry On series was relying more and more on blue humor, as this entry demonstrates. Here Sid James convinces his girlfriend (Joan Sims) to join him on a camping trip, while omitting to mention that their destination is a nude campground. To James' dismay, however, the campground has put in a clothing mandatory policy, so he sets about to naughty things up, especially with a busload of private schoolgirls that includes series regular Babs Windsor (who looks about ten years past private school age, but who cares?). The resulting hi jinx, silliness, misunderstandings and broad farce are familiar to any watcher of the series but fairly entertaining anyway. I personally found the DVD transfer to be a bit grainy, but watchable, and watching this movie was like re- visiting an old friend, familiar and comfortable.

This is what I call a perfect film! I am 16 and was persuaded by my mum to watch this film and other Carry On films and I loved!It is myfavourite Carry On film! Its actors occur again and again in the films and they are what makes this film fantastic. Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Sid James, Barbera Windsor and Joan Sims are great actors. Also even though they occur all the time in carry ons, they never bore me...Fantastic!!!!! I would totally recommend Carry On Camping to any age group as it is an absolute classic and a must see. Plus don't be put off with the fact that it is old and simple, this is what makes it so good! AnIconic Carry On...10/10!!!

Of all the 'Carry On' pictures, 'Camping' seems to be the one most frequently shown on television, and with good reason. It is an absolute joy.Various people from all walks of life converge on the Paradise camping site. Sid Boggle ( Sid James ) and his pal Bernie Lugg ( Bernard Bresslaw ) are sexually-frustrated plumbers who have taken their girlfriends, Joan Fussey ( Joan Sims ) and Anthea Meeks ( Dilys Laye ) on holiday believing the place to be a nudist colony. Peter Potter ( Terry Scott ) and his irritating wife Harriet ( Betty Marsden ) are there too for the umpteenth year running. Frail walker Charlie Muggins ( Charles Hawtrey ) latches onto the Potters and, much to Peter's annoyance, won't leave. Then there are the nubile girls of Chayste Place school, whose number includes sexy 'Babs' ( Barbara Windsor ) and her friend 'Fanny' ( Sandra Caron ). Attempting to keep them in order is the hopeless 'Dr.Soper' ( Kenneth Williams ) and the over-sized 'Matron' ( who else but Hattie Jacques? ).Over forty years after it was made, 'Camping' still has the ability to reduce me to tears of laughter. Whether it be the opening scene in the cinema where a shocked Joan, Bernie and Anthea watch a nudist movie ( great dialogue! ), or Mrs.Fussey's attempts to ruin her daughter's holiday by insisting she take along everything but the kitchen sink, the sight of Scott and Marsden pedalling through the countryside on a tandem, or the sheer greed of Peter Butterworth's camp site owner as Sid counts pound notes in his presence, the film is full of treasurable comic moments. Corny gags abound, but you know you are in good hands with this cast.With the death of theatre censorship in the late '60's, and the explosion of interest in more violent, sexually explicit films, the 'Carry On' series had to follow suit - or die. 'Up The Khyber' was a step in that direction, but 'Camping' goes further, boasting female nudity and even-bluer blue jokes than usual.We will discreetly draw a veil over the fact that the film features randy schoolgirls ( Windsor and co. looked too old for the roles anyway ). Anna Karen ( of 'On The Buses' ) is one, but in spite of many viewings I have never been able to spot her.Funniest moment - no, its not Babs' bra flying off during morning exercise. Its the finale where the campers unite to get rid of hippies who have overrun a nearby field so as to stage a 'Woodstock' style pop festival. The sight of Sid in full hippie gear cracks me up each time!

If you ask people to name a carry on film, many name Carry on Camping, perhaps due to the famous scene of "flinging" Barbara Windsor. However, it deserves to be memorable for other reasons, namely: * Sid James is at his comedic best (particularly when he mistakes Joan Sims' stew for his foot bath) * Amelia Bayntun (Joan Sims' screen mum, Mrs Fussey) is a perfect representation of the overbearing mother in law/overprotective mother. (She reprises this role as Charles Hawtree's mother in Carry on Abroad a few years later).* The winning-formula familiar pairings of Sid James/Joan Sims and Kenneth Williams/Hattie Jacques.* The 60s references work well, and echo the times in places (Terry Scott looking at holiday brochures, at a time when foreign holidays were becoming viable for ordinary people, the hippy ending showing the class of generations).* The quaint references to pre-decimalisation money, notably when Sid James and Peter Butterworth are talking about the camping fees.For my money, Camping was the last great carry on. Convenience and Abroad were good, but Camping saw the regulars at the height of their powers, and it showed. Wonderful little film.