33 reviews
Not the gang's best, but good...
The Carry On Gang get up to their usual monkey business, this time spoofing the Tarzan movies. This isn't their best effort...the script tries to fit in too many jungle cliches for its short running time, leading to a rather disjointed mishmosh of storylines. However, there are still many funny lines, and the Carry On regulars and semi-regulars (especially Frankie Howerd as the fussy professor) are in fine form. All in all, a very amusing way to spend 90 minutes.
Lubby-Dubby
The African jungle, and Lady Bagley is part of an expedition to hopefully find her long lost son who disappeared years before, along with her thought to be dead husband. However this is no ordinary trip, Professor Tinkle is searching for the rare Oozalum bird and expedition leader William Boosey well and truly lives up to his surname. Not only are there problems in the camp, outside is numerous other dangers. Wild beasts, wild men and tribes unheard of by human ears before.
1970 saw the Carry On team begin the decade with one of the better offerings in the franchise. Boosted by the returning Frankie Howerd and Terry Scott to join Messrs James, Hawtrey, Sims, Connor and Bresslaw, Carry On Up The Jungle sticks close to the cheeky formula that had worked in the better series entries previously (think Carry On Up The Kyber from 1968). Originally intended to be called Carry On Tarzan (the idea was scrapped for legal reasons), "Jungle" plonks a load of British odd balls in the jungle and invite us to observe how they cope. Which of course we know is not going to be very well at all. Terry Scott steals the film as a blundering Tarzan type (a role apparently turned down by Jim Dale), whilst Howerd and James get maximum humour from their polar opposite characters.
With a simple plot and carrying the series innuendo trademarks on its snake bitten ... ahem, Carry On Up the Jungle is a charmingly funny series entry. 7/10
1970 saw the Carry On team begin the decade with one of the better offerings in the franchise. Boosted by the returning Frankie Howerd and Terry Scott to join Messrs James, Hawtrey, Sims, Connor and Bresslaw, Carry On Up The Jungle sticks close to the cheeky formula that had worked in the better series entries previously (think Carry On Up The Kyber from 1968). Originally intended to be called Carry On Tarzan (the idea was scrapped for legal reasons), "Jungle" plonks a load of British odd balls in the jungle and invite us to observe how they cope. Which of course we know is not going to be very well at all. Terry Scott steals the film as a blundering Tarzan type (a role apparently turned down by Jim Dale), whilst Howerd and James get maximum humour from their polar opposite characters.
With a simple plot and carrying the series innuendo trademarks on its snake bitten ... ahem, Carry On Up the Jungle is a charmingly funny series entry. 7/10
- hitchcockthelegend
- Sep 5, 2009
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CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE (Gerald Thomas, 1970) ***
This (surprisingly) consistently funny spoof of the Tarzan jungle epics from the "Carry On" gang is one of their better efforts I've watched so far: the rude, crude jokes come flying by with a welcome regularity and the old reliables - Sidney James (as boozing big game hunter Bill Boosey), Joan Sims (as an aristocratic lady who lost her husband and son in Africa many years earlier) and Charles Hawtrey (as the latter's husband who has spent his time in Africa lording it over a bevy of jungle girls) - enter gleefully into the spirit of the thing; the same goes for occasional participants in the series who join them here like Frankie Howerd (as the improbable leader of the expedition), Kenneth Connor (as a lecherous botanist) and Bernard Bresslaw (as the native guide).
Among the comic highlights are a snake sliding into Ms. Sims' undergarments at dinner-time (which she mistakes for the attentions of each of her male pretenders), the various bedtime romps which also involve Sims' son (the Tarzan figure) and a huge gorilla, James' shotgun 'standing up' at attention on seeing Sims taking a bath, Tarzan's various catastrophic attempts at leaping from one tree to another, his learning the English language and numeric system (which invariably stops at number 6, since he mistakes it for 'sex'), etc. The second half with Hawtrey sags slightly and the luscious Valerie Leon is not put to best advantage; amusingly, during this section, whenever our heroes are in peril, a classic musical cue from the 1960s "Spider-Man" animated series is heard on the soundtrack! All in all, as I said earlier, the result is generally engaging and quite enjoyable.
Among the comic highlights are a snake sliding into Ms. Sims' undergarments at dinner-time (which she mistakes for the attentions of each of her male pretenders), the various bedtime romps which also involve Sims' son (the Tarzan figure) and a huge gorilla, James' shotgun 'standing up' at attention on seeing Sims taking a bath, Tarzan's various catastrophic attempts at leaping from one tree to another, his learning the English language and numeric system (which invariably stops at number 6, since he mistakes it for 'sex'), etc. The second half with Hawtrey sags slightly and the luscious Valerie Leon is not put to best advantage; amusingly, during this section, whenever our heroes are in peril, a classic musical cue from the 1960s "Spider-Man" animated series is heard on the soundtrack! All in all, as I said earlier, the result is generally engaging and quite enjoyable.
- Bunuel1976
- Jan 1, 2007
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The seventh best Carry on Film
RANKING
Definitely in the top tier of the series but only just. With Carry On Screaming ranked as number 1 and Carry on England as number 30, this is a reasonably good episode although it is a bit of a thoughtless rehash of what they've done before.
TYPICAL "Predictability" is the essence of Carry On films and this epitomises this. Change the costumes and you've got FOLLOW THAT CAMEL UP THE KHYBER but without being quite as funny and with a less clever story. Frankie Howerd does the Kenneth Williams role and although he's less likeable, he does a reasonable job.
SEXY LADIES The other essential of a Carry On film is saucy, sexy ladies and this doesn't disappoint on that count. A tribe of scantily clad, sex-hungry young ladies provide that essential element as does Jacki Piper who certainly ticks that box as well. The saucy humour in this is still the naughty seaside postcard style before it evolved into something less innocent as the series progressed through the seventies. It's all good fun.
TYPICAL "Predictability" is the essence of Carry On films and this epitomises this. Change the costumes and you've got FOLLOW THAT CAMEL UP THE KHYBER but without being quite as funny and with a less clever story. Frankie Howerd does the Kenneth Williams role and although he's less likeable, he does a reasonable job.
SEXY LADIES The other essential of a Carry On film is saucy, sexy ladies and this doesn't disappoint on that count. A tribe of scantily clad, sex-hungry young ladies provide that essential element as does Jacki Piper who certainly ticks that box as well. The saucy humour in this is still the naughty seaside postcard style before it evolved into something less innocent as the series progressed through the seventies. It's all good fun.
- Who_remembers_Dogtanian
- Aug 4, 2023
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Safari Madness
Kind of a take on Tarzan films, this film stars a truncated version of the Carry On group, but it has Sid James, Joan Sims, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, Bernard Bresslaw, Frankie Howerd and Jacki Piper, so thats fine. Its basically the adventures of an African safari and the crazy things which happen, such as mingling with the animals, tribesmen and each other. The only person I would have liked to see is Kenneth Williams, as they could have written a part for someone scared of his own shadow and he would have been perfect for it. That said, the film is full of the usual innuendos that the Carry On films all have and this one is fun. Not the best in the series but still worth watching.
- crossbow0106
- Jan 15, 2009
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Amusing mix of crude joking but a bit average not very inspired
Speaking to an audience of keen bird watchers, Professor Ingio Tinkle tells the story of his latest exhibition into the African jungle. Part of a party led by adventurer Bill Boosey, Tinkle and his colleagues (including Lady Bagley and her maid) are on their quest to find the Oozalum bird when they come under threat from a ruthless tribe and their guides refuse to continue with them. However things become more complicated when the group are discovered by a man of the jungle who was raised by monkeys and has never seen other men (or women!) before.
As one would expect with a Carry On film, this is full of innuendo, sexist and occasionally racist humour with a very vague plot to set it all within. Needless to say this film continues the trend and it isn't long before the plot (something about finding the Oozalum bird) is lost in a sea of bed swapping, mistaken partners and innuendo. For fans it is funny but it is nowhere near the best of the series as none of it is really that clever most of the gags are obvious and, although amusing, few made me laugh out loud and they didn't feel like there was any inspiration behind them. Modern audiences may find the sexist stuff a bit uncomfortable but to be honest, what did you expect from a Carry On film? There is a touch of racism although this too can be forgiven as a product of the period although it is not as direct as you'd think, instead it is implied by the rubber lipped tribesmen and the fact that only white people are allowed to speak (the main 'black' character is Bresslaw!) or by having the women tribe be mostly white or light skinned because 1970's audiences weren't ready for the sight of a white man having sex with a black woman (even implied). However the one racial joke I thought was clever was Sid James wondering why the same guide gets accidentally shot every time (the point being that it isn't the same one!).
The cast feature most of the regulars who are good enough comedians to be able to work with even this average material. Sid James does his usual stuff; Howerd has some very nice lines that hint at his sexual orientation although Connor is a bit flat when viewed next to him. Terry Scott is OK but has the least role of the film (although it is amusing that he stars with a character called June). The women have the usual short stick but both Sims and Piper are quite good. Hawtrey is funny in a late role that also plays with this physical appearance and sexual orientation. Bresslaw is stuck in yet another 'black face' role why he is always picked I don't know. The support cast are mostly black clichés but, even 25 years on the Lubi tribe look very, very sexy!
Overall this is pretty much par for the course for Carry On films and it will only really please fans. The broad humour lacks actual wit even if it is funny in a crude fashion but it is far from being consistently funny and it is fairly average as the series goes. Those in the mood for this type of humour will enjoy it but the humour is too broad and too badly structured to really be funny or witty.
As one would expect with a Carry On film, this is full of innuendo, sexist and occasionally racist humour with a very vague plot to set it all within. Needless to say this film continues the trend and it isn't long before the plot (something about finding the Oozalum bird) is lost in a sea of bed swapping, mistaken partners and innuendo. For fans it is funny but it is nowhere near the best of the series as none of it is really that clever most of the gags are obvious and, although amusing, few made me laugh out loud and they didn't feel like there was any inspiration behind them. Modern audiences may find the sexist stuff a bit uncomfortable but to be honest, what did you expect from a Carry On film? There is a touch of racism although this too can be forgiven as a product of the period although it is not as direct as you'd think, instead it is implied by the rubber lipped tribesmen and the fact that only white people are allowed to speak (the main 'black' character is Bresslaw!) or by having the women tribe be mostly white or light skinned because 1970's audiences weren't ready for the sight of a white man having sex with a black woman (even implied). However the one racial joke I thought was clever was Sid James wondering why the same guide gets accidentally shot every time (the point being that it isn't the same one!).
The cast feature most of the regulars who are good enough comedians to be able to work with even this average material. Sid James does his usual stuff; Howerd has some very nice lines that hint at his sexual orientation although Connor is a bit flat when viewed next to him. Terry Scott is OK but has the least role of the film (although it is amusing that he stars with a character called June). The women have the usual short stick but both Sims and Piper are quite good. Hawtrey is funny in a late role that also plays with this physical appearance and sexual orientation. Bresslaw is stuck in yet another 'black face' role why he is always picked I don't know. The support cast are mostly black clichés but, even 25 years on the Lubi tribe look very, very sexy!
Overall this is pretty much par for the course for Carry On films and it will only really please fans. The broad humour lacks actual wit even if it is funny in a crude fashion but it is far from being consistently funny and it is fairly average as the series goes. Those in the mood for this type of humour will enjoy it but the humour is too broad and too badly structured to really be funny or witty.
- bob the moo
- Jul 29, 2004
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Something just didn't quite click for me with this Carry on offering....
I've now seen a great number of the carry on films and therefore feel in a good position to judge the ones that are brilliant, the ones that are good and the ones that are merely average...
There have been some carry on films that have suffered from having weak or sometimes even unfocused narratives, but most carry on films can get away with these things by virtue of the fact that the characters and the situations they find themselves in are more often than not hilarious. However, that doesn't happen so much here...
Whilst the first hour provides some chuckles there are never any laugh out loud moments and I also found that the characters were quite poor here; Sid James underplays here perhaps feeling a bit threatened at the presence of Frankie Howerd. Charles Hawtrey a carry on regular who is usually responsible for a good chunk of the laughs only features in the film at the end (though to his credit he is good in the time that he was afforded). I get that this is a spoof of Tarzan, but I just couldn't take to Terry Scott in this film (it's not his fault he does the best that he can, but his character simply isn't funny).
I would have said this was one of the weakest of the carry on films that I've seen so far, but a lively last half-hour partly rescues the film (once they find themselves in Aphrodisia things do notably improve and bigger laughs do arrive), but for me I did wonder if it was all a case of 'being too little too late.'
Some may criticise the film because so many of the regular cast members are missing in Carry on up the jungle (one wonders if this happens when the scripts are weaker resulting in many of the regulars choosing to decline some of the projects to try to protect their reputations). I seem to remember Carry on cruising as being another film to be missing several of the regular cast and was another one that I didn't care all that much for.
If you're new to the Carry on universe then perhaps that is something that you should look for as any of the films that seem to miss many of the key players tend to be the weaker ones. As it is this one has some laughs, but it's a long way from the high standard achieved by Carry on Camping.
There have been some carry on films that have suffered from having weak or sometimes even unfocused narratives, but most carry on films can get away with these things by virtue of the fact that the characters and the situations they find themselves in are more often than not hilarious. However, that doesn't happen so much here...
Whilst the first hour provides some chuckles there are never any laugh out loud moments and I also found that the characters were quite poor here; Sid James underplays here perhaps feeling a bit threatened at the presence of Frankie Howerd. Charles Hawtrey a carry on regular who is usually responsible for a good chunk of the laughs only features in the film at the end (though to his credit he is good in the time that he was afforded). I get that this is a spoof of Tarzan, but I just couldn't take to Terry Scott in this film (it's not his fault he does the best that he can, but his character simply isn't funny).
I would have said this was one of the weakest of the carry on films that I've seen so far, but a lively last half-hour partly rescues the film (once they find themselves in Aphrodisia things do notably improve and bigger laughs do arrive), but for me I did wonder if it was all a case of 'being too little too late.'
Some may criticise the film because so many of the regular cast members are missing in Carry on up the jungle (one wonders if this happens when the scripts are weaker resulting in many of the regulars choosing to decline some of the projects to try to protect their reputations). I seem to remember Carry on cruising as being another film to be missing several of the regular cast and was another one that I didn't care all that much for.
If you're new to the Carry on universe then perhaps that is something that you should look for as any of the films that seem to miss many of the key players tend to be the weaker ones. As it is this one has some laughs, but it's a long way from the high standard achieved by Carry on Camping.
- jimbo-53-186511
- Apr 16, 2023
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Carry on Rousseau
The Carry On team take on the whole idea of the noble savage, showing the escapades of a group of civilised nit-wits up the jungle. The horrors of an uncultivated life - snakes, gorillas, cannibals and matriarchy - are mercilessly exposed and, of course, in this situation the whole idea of human life boils down to the one sordid thing - sex. The plot, such as it is, tells of the search for the legendary Oozalum bird - a symbol which stands for the exotic Rousseau ideal but which, in the cold light of day out of the jungle, disappears like all pretentious nonsense up its own bum. The relationship between the jungle-boy and his woman is one of the best presentations of a nascent adolescent affair in the whole of cinema - every attempt to pursue a cultural or improving agenda collapses into another bout of rumpy-pumpy. The final joke is a great one - a place in civilisation is another tree house in the jungle and we realise that what has been satirised throughout is not a false ideal which is practised in the jungle but in our own backward and undeveloped urban lives.
Carry On Up the Jungle
- jboothmillard
- Sep 14, 2011
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Absurdly silly but lots of fun.
Tarzan is spoofed by the Carry on Gang, the only way Gerald Thomas knew how to, madcap humour.
Carry on up the Jungle is one of the gang's films I don't watch that often, but when it's on it's actually really funny, with lots of gags and great moments.
It boasts an absolutely brilliant cast, the usual regulars are all on top notch form, but the bulk of the laughs come from Charles Hawtrey and Frankie Howerd, the latter adding something extra funny. Professor Inigo Tinkle would make any expedition fun, that laugh was outrageous.
Some truly funny moments in the film, the discovery of Charles Hawtrey and his explanation about his disappearance is hilarious. The dinner scene where the snake is crawling up Lady Bagley's dress is a hilarious sequence.
If I'm to give a totally accurate and honest review I would have to say the film loses marks for both Terry Scott's an Bernard Bresslaw's characters, I find both irritating for the most part, but neither are so annoying that they detract from what is a funny entry into the wonderful Carry on Series.
Carry on up the Jungle is one of the gang's films I don't watch that often, but when it's on it's actually really funny, with lots of gags and great moments.
It boasts an absolutely brilliant cast, the usual regulars are all on top notch form, but the bulk of the laughs come from Charles Hawtrey and Frankie Howerd, the latter adding something extra funny. Professor Inigo Tinkle would make any expedition fun, that laugh was outrageous.
Some truly funny moments in the film, the discovery of Charles Hawtrey and his explanation about his disappearance is hilarious. The dinner scene where the snake is crawling up Lady Bagley's dress is a hilarious sequence.
If I'm to give a totally accurate and honest review I would have to say the film loses marks for both Terry Scott's an Bernard Bresslaw's characters, I find both irritating for the most part, but neither are so annoying that they detract from what is a funny entry into the wonderful Carry on Series.
- Sleepin_Dragon
- Jan 25, 2016
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Wonderful!
The jokes keep coming, in true Carry On fashion, and most of them stand the test of time, even after all these years.
Loads of great moments. Joan Sims's performance as Lady Bagley is particularly memorable in the sequence where she gets a snake up her dress. Plenty of Carry On knob-gags, a wonderful mating ritual (Tonka! Tonka! Stick it up your honka!), and lots of lovely ladies.
Frankie Howerd is on fine form, camping it up like nobody's business. Sid guffaws his way through the proceedings and, more than halfway through, there's a whole new lease of life with the sudden and unexpected appearance of Charlie Hawtrey. Even Terry Scott's aggravating and not-particularly-funny Jungle Boy doesn't grate too much, as the whole film is full of such energy and fun that he barely even registers.
One of the very best of the Carry Ons. Some people may not feel this is a glowing compliment!
Loads of great moments. Joan Sims's performance as Lady Bagley is particularly memorable in the sequence where she gets a snake up her dress. Plenty of Carry On knob-gags, a wonderful mating ritual (Tonka! Tonka! Stick it up your honka!), and lots of lovely ladies.
Frankie Howerd is on fine form, camping it up like nobody's business. Sid guffaws his way through the proceedings and, more than halfway through, there's a whole new lease of life with the sudden and unexpected appearance of Charlie Hawtrey. Even Terry Scott's aggravating and not-particularly-funny Jungle Boy doesn't grate too much, as the whole film is full of such energy and fun that he barely even registers.
One of the very best of the Carry Ons. Some people may not feel this is a glowing compliment!
- chuffnobbler
- Aug 24, 2005
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Fun
Minor series entry, but a fun and easy watch.
The main foursome of Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd carries the film.
Sims is fantastic as the posh, lusty and desirable Lady Bagley. Howerd is great, covering up the loss of Kenneth Williams.
This seems to be the Carry On... where Connor reemerged as a team member and you can see why they kept giving him lead roles after this.
The main foursome of Sid James, Joan Sims, Kenneth Connor, Frankie Howerd carries the film.
Sims is fantastic as the posh, lusty and desirable Lady Bagley. Howerd is great, covering up the loss of Kenneth Williams.
This seems to be the Carry On... where Connor reemerged as a team member and you can see why they kept giving him lead roles after this.
was probably written in the bar at the rugby club after closing time
- ianlouisiana
- Jan 13, 2012
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A bit tired.
An okay film, not that funny really other than how you just can't believe what they could get away with back then. There isn't so much a story but a series of scenes, in typical fashion at one point everyone ends up in the wrong bed and so on. The film begins in the jungle mostly with a series of gags about the men and even a gorilla trying to catch a sight of the women on the expedition taking a shower. It's also introduced that there's some Tarzan like man who walks around in a giant nappy unable to speak any English. More misunderstandings and jealousy ensues. All this takes about 45 minutes to happen and the jokes are pretty laboured and just keep going on too long. The production design is pretty basic but that just adds to the comedy. The group are taken captive by a nearby tribe who want to put them all in their village cooking pot but are then rescheduled by some scantily clad young women from another nearby village. Things go on a bit longer and then it all kind of ends happily for everyone. The film has a few funny bits but misses lots of the comedy from Barbara Windsor and Kenneth Williams. Perhaps these went on a little too long. Still the fact they were willing to have some fun and do some of the things they did in this film is feels pretty fresh today. Again this isn't supposed to be anything other than a comedy.
Me June, You Ugh, Audience Laugh
- bkoganbing
- Dec 1, 2013
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A weaker entry to the Carry On series
Amusing enough
I'd say this ranks right in the middle of all of the Carry On films quality wise, it's quite amusing but has several flaws.
It's a send-up of Tarzan with Terry Scott playing the man himself. Scott's performance as Ug is possibly the most dividing performance in the film, you will either enjoy his playing dumb nature or detest it. Sid James. Charles Hawtrey is good when on screen although he is given barely anything to do. The rest of the cast are decent enough. Kenneth Williams is missing from this entry.
The jokes in this one are, well, broad for sure. Some are genuinely very funny whereas some are telegraphed from miles away. Overall a slightly above average affair that remains entertaining enough throughout without ever challenging for any awards.
It's a send-up of Tarzan with Terry Scott playing the man himself. Scott's performance as Ug is possibly the most dividing performance in the film, you will either enjoy his playing dumb nature or detest it. Sid James. Charles Hawtrey is good when on screen although he is given barely anything to do. The rest of the cast are decent enough. Kenneth Williams is missing from this entry.
The jokes in this one are, well, broad for sure. Some are genuinely very funny whereas some are telegraphed from miles away. Overall a slightly above average affair that remains entertaining enough throughout without ever challenging for any awards.
- comedyfan71
- Mar 26, 2024
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Pretty embarrassing, it has to be said
CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE had the misfortune to follow on from one of the widely acknowledged highlights of the Carry On franchise, the excellence that is CARRY ON CAMPING. That was a very funny comedy with non-stop jokes, whereas this film just isn't funny at all. The main problem with it is that it feels very dated indeed, even for its era.
This was the dawn of the 1970s, yet CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE is a film that contains white actors in blackface, black actors playing jungle porters, a guy in a gorilla suit who runs around like in an old Bela Lugosi movie from the 1940s, and most offensively, Terry Scott playing a version of Tarzan. Scott's constant mugging is one of the reasons I remember disliking the actor, which isn't really fair as he was decent in CAMPING.
Elsewhere, the film misses the presence Kenneth Williams, with Frankie Howerd coming across way too over the top as his replacement. Howerd mugs for all his worth in a performance far removed from his one in CARRY ON DOCTOR. Sid James is better, but even he can do little to salvage the film from the plethora of repetitive and sexist jokes. It's doubly disappointing because one of my favourite Carry On stars, Kenneth Connor, returns after a six-year hiatus, but to be frank his role here is an embarrassment and a far cry from what you'd expect given his earlier turns in CARRY ON CONSTABLE and the like. Whatever way you look at it, CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE is a right mess.
This was the dawn of the 1970s, yet CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE is a film that contains white actors in blackface, black actors playing jungle porters, a guy in a gorilla suit who runs around like in an old Bela Lugosi movie from the 1940s, and most offensively, Terry Scott playing a version of Tarzan. Scott's constant mugging is one of the reasons I remember disliking the actor, which isn't really fair as he was decent in CAMPING.
Elsewhere, the film misses the presence Kenneth Williams, with Frankie Howerd coming across way too over the top as his replacement. Howerd mugs for all his worth in a performance far removed from his one in CARRY ON DOCTOR. Sid James is better, but even he can do little to salvage the film from the plethora of repetitive and sexist jokes. It's doubly disappointing because one of my favourite Carry On stars, Kenneth Connor, returns after a six-year hiatus, but to be frank his role here is an embarrassment and a far cry from what you'd expect given his earlier turns in CARRY ON CONSTABLE and the like. Whatever way you look at it, CARRY ON UP THE JUNGLE is a right mess.
- Leofwine_draca
- Jan 23, 2015
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Carry On No. 19
Not very good, but Ok
Frankie Howerd returns in the lead role, it was good in ...Doctor' but it did not work this time, it was the screenplay that was a bit lame, it sort of went through the motions, Sid James was second billing because of Howerd does better but cackles too much, lots of sexual innuendo sort of ruins it a bit. The highlight was the new girl Jacki Piper, who was very nice but misused as a sex object.
Other regulars were Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw and Valerie Leon, also Kenneth Connor who returns after a long absence.
Too much sex, innuendo and cackling, not enough acting and adventure, this would have been much improved had Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Peter Gilmore been in it, but alas not.
Frankie Howerd returns in the lead role, it was good in ...Doctor' but it did not work this time, it was the screenplay that was a bit lame, it sort of went through the motions, Sid James was second billing because of Howerd does better but cackles too much, lots of sexual innuendo sort of ruins it a bit. The highlight was the new girl Jacki Piper, who was very nice but misused as a sex object.
Other regulars were Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Terry Scott, Bernard Bresslaw and Valerie Leon, also Kenneth Connor who returns after a long absence.
Too much sex, innuendo and cackling, not enough acting and adventure, this would have been much improved had Jim Dale, Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques and Peter Gilmore been in it, but alas not.
- michaelarmer
- Apr 30, 2020
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Rather unfunny Carry on
This is one of the lesser films, it features rather boring characters and I can't remember many memorable scenes. It has a good set up in the jungle and there's a few funny and predictable moments (snake in the shower for one), Tarzan features in this too I think, or at least a Tarzan type character.
4/10: Generally disjointed and boring
4/10: Generally disjointed and boring
- Hayden-86055
- Jan 15, 2021
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One of my favourites.
I can't believe that of all of the films I've reviewed to date, not one has been a Carry On caper; let's put that right...
In Carry On Up The Jungle, the 19th film in the long-running British comedy series, The Carry On team tackle one of my favourite genres, the jungle adventure, sending up the legend of Tarzan with their own inimitable style of 'seaside humour', whereby virtually every line uttered is a thinly veiled innuendo and crazy slapstick situations abound.
Craggy faced Sid James plays fearless hunter Bill Boosey (Boosey by name, boozy by nature), guide for an expedition in search of the legendary Oozlum bird (which supposedly flies in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up its own backside). While deep in the African jungle, the group come face to face with the cannibalistic Nosher tribe, meet Ugh (Terry Scott), the long lost son of Lady Bagley (Joan Sims), and are taken captive by a tribe of women who need men for mating, all of which allows for plenty of smut and general tomfoolery.
Up The Jungle sees the team on top form, the ribald humour and double entendres coming thick and fast (oo-errr!) and the silliness in overdrive. With a patently fake gorilla on the rampage, a tubby Scott as an unlikely ape-man, Frankie Howerd 'oohing' and 'aahing' for all he's worth, Bernard Bresslaw in black-face as native bearer Upsidaisi, the gorgeous Jacki Piper as Ugh's love interest June, and buxom babe Valerie Leon in a revealing jungle outfit, this is unashamedly unsophisticated and terribly un-PC, and as a result, hugely entertaining.
9/10 (it should be noted, however, that my rating is as a lifelong Carry On fan).
In Carry On Up The Jungle, the 19th film in the long-running British comedy series, The Carry On team tackle one of my favourite genres, the jungle adventure, sending up the legend of Tarzan with their own inimitable style of 'seaside humour', whereby virtually every line uttered is a thinly veiled innuendo and crazy slapstick situations abound.
Craggy faced Sid James plays fearless hunter Bill Boosey (Boosey by name, boozy by nature), guide for an expedition in search of the legendary Oozlum bird (which supposedly flies in ever decreasing circles until it disappears up its own backside). While deep in the African jungle, the group come face to face with the cannibalistic Nosher tribe, meet Ugh (Terry Scott), the long lost son of Lady Bagley (Joan Sims), and are taken captive by a tribe of women who need men for mating, all of which allows for plenty of smut and general tomfoolery.
Up The Jungle sees the team on top form, the ribald humour and double entendres coming thick and fast (oo-errr!) and the silliness in overdrive. With a patently fake gorilla on the rampage, a tubby Scott as an unlikely ape-man, Frankie Howerd 'oohing' and 'aahing' for all he's worth, Bernard Bresslaw in black-face as native bearer Upsidaisi, the gorgeous Jacki Piper as Ugh's love interest June, and buxom babe Valerie Leon in a revealing jungle outfit, this is unashamedly unsophisticated and terribly un-PC, and as a result, hugely entertaining.
9/10 (it should be noted, however, that my rating is as a lifelong Carry On fan).
- BA_Harrison
- Jul 15, 2013
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Proper film #18 in the iconic Brit-com series is a course-correcting solid 'Carry On'
In 1970 Brit-com "Carry On Up The Jungle" (aka 'Carry on Tarzan' but for copyright), Sid James & Bernard Bresslaw lead Joan Sims, Jacki Piper, Frankie Howerd (replacing Kenneth Williams in sadly the last of his two 'Carry Ons') & Kenneth Connor (back after missing the last eight) on an African expedition with cannibals, wild elephants, a randy gorilla, Terry Scott's amusing Tarzan equivalent, and Charles Hawtrey's women only tribe (inc Valerie Leon) that needs new men to mate with. With proper film #18 in the iconic series, director Gerald Thomas & writer Talbot Rothwell offer a course-correcting solid entry, after the disappointment of "Carry On Again Doctor".
- danieljfarthing
- Nov 19, 2023
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Carry on Up the Jungle
"Carry on Tarzan" or "Carry on Solomon doesn't mind"? I was never a fan of Frankie Howerd's rather unsubtle form of humour, and I found that when he appeared in these, he tended to upstage the rather gentler (though just as seedy) humour that emanated from Messrs. James, Hawtrey et al. This time around, the diamond wearing Joan Sims' "Lady Bagley" is mounting a jungle expedition to see if her long-lost baby really ended up in the belly of a crocodile alongside her husband. Meantime, a loincloth clad Terry Scott is marauding the jungle swinging from tree to tree... Might he be the one? Might she still want to know if he is? This isn't really very good. Howerd dominates with his birdwatching "Prof. Tinkle" and he rather subsumes James's dipso expedition leader "Boosey", Sims and a rather daft performance from Hawtrey's "Tonka" (trucks not chocolate?). Bernard Bresslaw is quite entertaining as their local guide "Upsidaisi" and the dialogue is the usual fayre of rhyming slang and nudge, nudge, wink, wink.... It struggles to sustain it's initial momentum, I felt, and relied too much on a star that I just didn't rate, so sorry - not that great.
- CinemaSerf
- Jul 25, 2023
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A fun, classic Carry On!
- IanPhillips
- Aug 6, 2015
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Eegah!
- rmax304823
- Dec 22, 2011
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