CARRY ON COLUMBUS / CARRY ON C

This movie is not really considered a good Carry On by most fans. Most of the original cast has passed on and a new attempt to reboot the film series had begun. The movie bombed. The last ever Carry On and it is a poor effort.However for me it is better than England or Emmanuelle but not much.Jim Dale puts on a brave face with a few regulars in bit parts. Jack Douglas, Bernard Cribbins, June Whitfield and Leslie Phillips to name a few. Newcomers like Rik Mayall, Julian Clary, Peter Richardson, Alexei Sayle etc attempt to get on board (pun intended) and mostly fail miserably.You will soon see and miss the writing of Talbot Rothwell or Norman Hudis. This dire effort is written by Dave Freeman (Carry On Behind) and John Goldstone.It’s just not very funnyThe quality is quite honestly awful. It is grainy, not in widescreen (4.3), has no subtitles, no extras and even the cover looks like a bad photocopy.So should you buy it. Well if you want to complete your collection yes but otherwise save your money.

One of the problems that the Carry On series has is that despite popular (ITV?) opinion the corn has gone very stale and TV comedians/ comic actors don't translate to the big screen. I will say that Sara (Philadelphia) Crow has a great figure (count the ribs) but a strange accent.The original Carry Ons were corny but the cast were veterans of FILM and capable of performing the corn dead straight. Thus it was funny.The cast here (as in "England" which I loathed) are TV trained and only too aware of the script being "funny". TV needs a different technique to film and sadly most of these never had it and even in the case of those that had like Jim Dale seem to be going through the motions.I bought this to complete my collection and replace an ex rental VHS. Watching it was a chore and showed why the VHS seemed so unworn.if you want Carry On Corn then go pre 1968. The Anglo Amalgamateds were best, the Ranks passable but the later Whoops Matron Leer Wink Ranks are ...RANK.Ah well you want it or not

I always liked this film, I thought it was reasonably funny and a better structured "Carry on" than many of the original team's final efforts in early 70s. I think it received an unfair panning from the critics who adopted a lazy knee jerk approach whinging that the old stars weren't there - they couldn't be, they were all dead! The DVD itself however is a poor quality effort. The picture quality suggests it was transferred direct from VHS in some sort of horrible screen-fit mode? The picture quality of many of the 60s films given away as free DVDs with newspapers in the early noughties is far superior.

After reading a few negative reviews I was in two minds whether to purchase this or not but bought it anyway simply to complete my Carry On collection.Most Carry On fans like me will tell you that this is a dreadful film and one that should never have been made.Notwithstanding that, this is a dreadful print which appears to have been transferred to DVD from a VHS tape. Also the aspect ratio is given as 4:3 which is fair enough but when played stretches to fill a 16:9 screen and you cannot alter it !In short unless you want to put this on the shelf alongside your proper Carry Ons to complete your own collection - DO NOT BUY

Got this as it is the only 'Carry On' movie I didn't have, and I remember watching it on telly some years ago. Although universally panned by the critics, I found it funnier than some of the 'Carry Ons' of the late 1970s, such as Carry On England & Carry On Emmanuelle. Also it's worth remembering that of the 3 Christopher Columbus movies released in 1992, this was the one that made the most money at the box office.

Not as bad a film as you might think and certainly better than ....England or ....Emanuelle but still one for completists and fans only. Jim Dale is as wonderful as ever.As for the DVD, sound and picture quality is appalling. It looks like a cheap transfer from VHS. Very poor quality and I only bought it to complete my collection. No matter how derided the film is, it deserves much better than this.

Like others here, this was purchased to complete my 'Carry On.....' collection.I was aware this film was not up to the original films standard but, did expect DVD quality viewing/sound.Alas no. This is clearly a video transfer, with very low quality picture and sound. I recall better quality form VHS days! (Ask your parents, if you're unsure of VHS.)Hopefully someday, someone will complete a 'New Transfer' from quality film stock aided but Digital cleaning.The film may not be the best but, surely we deserve the best quality DVD has to offer?

I ordered this as a DVD because I thought I would be getting a DVD copy of the this movie, I was wrong. What I got was a DVD with poor copy of a poor quality VHS tape. Who ever copied it didn't even fill the screen with the image, there is a border around the screen. The image is slightly blurred just as you would expect from a VHS tape. But worst of all is the fact that this is a GENUINE copy, This is what they are putting out!!