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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 91244" data-attributes="member: 23">Carry On Laughing is over. Truthfully, it was more a case of the completist in me wanting to get through them in sequence before moving on to the next film. Now I&#039;ve done that I can&#039;t say I&#039;ll miss it terribly. There were a few enjoyable little moments. Peter Butterworth was a hoot as Merlin ad libbing all over the place. Sid and Hattie&#039;s final Carry On was one of the better of the series with some nice lines. But thirteen episodes of the series was ample. Sheree Hewson and Johnny Briggs both appeared, preceding their roles in Behind and England respectively .Speaking of Behind, I watched that this evening and rather enjoyed it. Kenneth Williams held it together nicely. Elke Sommer&#039;s top billing is a little bizarre, but she was likeable enough. The broken English/lost in translation bit is old, but between these two it turned out to be one of the more enjoyable aspects. Interesting to see Liz Fraser back, this time as the hausfrau type rather than the fantasy. She had too little screen-time, sadly. Joan Sims fighting off Kenneth Connor and rekindling romance with Peter Butterworth was enjoyable enough - especially as she&#039;d spent much of the first two thirds of the film being quite unpleasant. Speaking of unpleasant, Carol Hawkins and Sheree Hewson played two of the most unlikeable characters yet in the series - a couple of shrill, whiny young women out for what they can get from men. Hewson&#039;s appeal has long been lost on me, which didn&#039;t help. It struck me while watching her in Laughing that Hawkins - in many ways - could have been a reasonable successor to Jacki Piper. She just seemed badly used here. I liked her in the film of Bless This House and Abroad. Really, the film suffered from too many characters who were badly developed. Adrienne Posta and Ian Lavender&#039;s couple were casualties of that. I&#039;d have a job to remember their characters&#039; names and I&#039;ve watched it many times. More, too, could have been done with Larry Dann&#039;s return to the series.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 91244, member: 23"] [I]Carry On Laughing[/I] is over. Truthfully, it was more a case of the completist in me wanting to get through them in sequence before moving on to the next film. Now I've done that I can't say I'll miss it terribly. There were a few enjoyable little moments. Peter Butterworth was a hoot as Merlin ad libbing all over the place. Sid and Hattie's final Carry On was one of the better of the series with some nice lines. But thirteen episodes of the series was ample. Sheree Hewson and Johnny Briggs both appeared, preceding their roles in [I]Behind[/I] and [I]England[/I] respectively . Speaking of [I]Behind[/I], I watched that this evening and rather enjoyed it. Kenneth Williams held it together nicely. Elke Sommer's top billing is a little bizarre, but she was likeable enough. The broken English/lost in translation bit is old, but between these two it turned out to be one of the more enjoyable aspects. Interesting to see Liz Fraser back, this time as the hausfrau type rather than the fantasy. She had too little screen-time, sadly. Joan Sims fighting off Kenneth Connor and rekindling romance with Peter Butterworth was enjoyable enough - especially as she'd spent much of the first two thirds of the film being quite unpleasant. Speaking of unpleasant, Carol Hawkins and Sheree Hewson played two of the most unlikeable characters yet in the series - a couple of shrill, whiny young women out for what they can get from men. Hewson's appeal has long been lost on me, which didn't help. It struck me while watching her in [I]Laughing[/I] that Hawkins - in many ways - could have been a reasonable successor to Jacki Piper. She just seemed badly used here. I liked her in the film of [I]Bless This House[/I] and [I]Abroad[/I]. Really, the film suffered from too many characters who were badly developed. Adrienne Posta and Ian Lavender's couple were casualties of that. I'd have a job to remember their characters' names and I've watched it many times. More, too, could have been done with Larry Dann's return to the series. [/QUOTE]

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