PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

IndianaDoctor Carry On Girls was the beginning of when over the top smut entertained the Carry On's, what probably killed off the Carry On series in the end. There's nothing wrong with a bit innuendo however you can go too far with it, the Carry On's were made for a family audience. It was like a pantomime on screen and in pantomime you don't see many extremely crude gags or even nudity. Now I am fan of what they call alternative comedy like "Bottom" but of course there not something I'd probably watch in front of the whole family, however like I said the Carry On's are made for family viewing. Anyway Carry On Girls is set in the fictional broken down seaside town of Firecombe, which is having problems luring tourists to its town. One of the Councillors Sid Fidler played by of course Sid James, as come up with idea of having a beauty contest based in there town. Sid has already managed to convince the Mayor to go with this idea played by Kenneth Connor, while a rival Councillor Ms Prodworthy played by June Whitfield is complete up against this idea who happens to be running a women's right campaign. Eventually the contest is given the green light and Sid manages to convince his Girlfriend Connie played by Joan Sims to base the competition within her hotel, though she's got to give away the rooms free to the contestants much to her anger. Sid later on calls down his mate Peter Potter played by Bernard Bresslaw to help arrange the competition. Eventually all the contestants turn up, one of them being Hope Springs played by Barbara Windsor a previous beauty queen winner who somewhat catches the eye of Sid. The three them all come up with different schemes to make the contest more controversial to get more publicity for the contest. While at the same time Ms Prodworthy and her women's right's group also come up with different schemes to sabotage the contest. Okay it's not one of the greatest of Carry On plots, the directing of this film looks dirty and seems to be directing in the same style of the other comedy British franchise films which was the Confession films, which at this time was becoming a rival to the Carry On's, and it appears for some reason the Carry On's wanted to start copying. Which if you haven't seen a basically not a comedy for the family put it that way.Everybody in this is playing there usual role, Sid of course his the scheming dirty old man whose after chasing birds and earning a buck or two. Bernie is of course is Sid's mate who is somewhat a bit more panicky and doubting most of Sid's ideas but of course is somewhat still lured into his ideas, Babs of course eye candy and is forming a relationship with Sid and Joan of course is Sid's girlfriend who owns the hotel who is becoming more jealous of Sid's and Babs relationship and getting more angry of Sid ruining her business. Sounds like a normal Carry On whats wrong with that? Yeah it is, it's funny places there's some good gags but it just seems to be too crude for a Carry On, especially for a family audience. There is moments in this where it goes to far, especially during a fight scene between Babs and the gorgeous Margaret Nolan, where we see a little bit too much! wow Maggie as certainly got a big pair! anyway that scene does go a little too far, it's a funny scene yeah but as I keep mentioning for a family flick it shouldn't be there, when your watching it with family it becomes quite an awkward scene.Okay I'm being a bit too negative about this, okay this a funny Carry On. It is crude but it is watchable, it's not maybe quite as crude as say Emmannuellle or England but of course they are simply un watchable. Carry On Girls is probably a right Carry On to watch to a much mature audience, so I wouldn't say this quite a family flick. As I mentioned it is funny, this is a good British comedy but as a Carry On not the greatest. I admit I've watched Carry On Girls a few times being as it is funny and a perfect film for the lads ;) Most of the Carry On gang are present though I've got to say absents of both Kenneth Williams and Charles Hawtrey is quite noticeable. Kenneth Williams was unavailable working on a another project, while Hawtrey of course had been sacked from this series, which was probably biggest mistake the series had made.Anyway as I said Girls is a good comedy, give it a look in as Carry On not it's finest hour. A five out of ten for me.

bkoganbing The Carry On series was known for its risqué and somewhat lewd and bawdy humor, more and more as the series went on. But in Carry On Girls where the subject is a beauty contest there's definitely more of it here than the rest of the series. Definitely Carry On Girls is Sid James's finest and most leering best.James owns a small hotel with Joan Sims that is not doing all that well. He comes up with a capital idea, hold a beauty contest at his hotel. Both make money and publicity and indulge in his favorite pasttime. He sells the mayor of the town Kenneth Connor on the idea though the stodgy Connor has his reservations.What's also around the local feminist June Whitfield who just on principle doesn't care for James's sexist ways. But the idea of exploitation of female bodies sets her off and she looks to sabotage the event. Between her sabotage and Sid James's eternal quest for any kind of publicity you have the makings of a funny film.That final scene at the beauty pageant is one for the books in the Carry On series. If you like nubile young female bodies and have a bawdy sense of humor, Carry On Girls is your film.

Jackson Booth-Millard I will admit I didn't pay full attention to everything going on in this film, but to be honest, I don't think it would have mattered. Basically local councillor Sidney Fiddler (Sid James) persuades the incompetent Mayor Frederick Bumble (Kenneth Connor) of Firecombe to hold a beauty contest, to improve the town's image. They face opposition from women's liberationist Augusta Prodworthy (June Whitfield) trying to sabotage the contest, but they do have publicity agent Peter Potter (Bernard Bresslaw) and Palace Hotel owner Connie Philpotts (Joan Sims). Soon enough the young, beautiful wannabe models show up, including Hope Springs (Barbara Windsor), Paula Perkins (Valerie Leon), Dawn Brakes (Goldfinger's Margaret Nolan), Debra (Sally Geeson) and Ida Downs (EastEnders' Wendy Richard). When the girls have cat fights, it does draw away regular residents, but after quite a while of some plodding not that funny innuendos and William (Jack Douglas) having over-active twitches, it does finally reach the competition, and it's just afterwards I couldn't be bothered. Also starring Patsy Rowlands as Mildred Bumble, Peter Butterworth as Admiral, Joan Hickson as Mrs. Dukes, David Lodge as Police inspector, Angela Grant as Miss Bangor, Arnold Ridley as Councillor Pratt, Robin Askwith as Larry, Patricia Franklin as Rosemary, Jimmy Logan as Cecil Gaybody and Dad's Army's Bill Pertwee as Fire brigade chief, Charles Hawtrey had obviously quit the Carry Ons, but where's Kenneth Williams? I suppose seeing Babs and young, beautiful looking Pauline Fowler in bikinis, but for comedy value, this fails miserably, and the overuse of the swanny whistle just gets on your nerves. Pretty poor!

world_of_weird Although it doesn't quite scale the dizzy heights of CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER and does suffer somewhat from an obviously farthing-scraping budget, GIRLS is still vintage stuff from the Carry On crew, with a fast-moving, pun-heavy script from the great Talbot Rothwell ("I want a nice warm room with hot and cold running chambermaids" - Sid James, one of his many classic lines), plenty of memorable characters including the dotty Miss Tewkes, the randy old Admiral, the punch-drunk bellboy...hang on, this is starting to sound like FAWLTY TOWERS! If the film has one insurmountable obstacle it's the casting of the ageing, dumpy and diminutive Barbara Windsor as a beauty queen. This isn't even believable in a comedy situation where Sid James is a babe magnet and the gormless Bernard Bresslaw gets jiggy with the statuesque Valerie Leon! The rest of the contestants (with the possible exception of future EASTENDER Wendy Richards) look the part, however, and Carry On regular Margaret Nolan is especially memorable as the busty Dawn Brakes, though the PC brigade would no doubt frown on the...er...physical humour the film derives from her buxom presence! There's also a short but priceless cameo from DAD'S ARMY's Private Godfrey, who has one of the film's funniest lines, and Jimmy Logan is hilarious, camping it up in a role that was evidently meant for either Kenneth Williams or Charles Hawtrey and winning the day with his sheer exuberance. There are some sequences that don't really fit the Carry On mould - the Windsor-Nolan cat-fight, for example, shows signs of desperation, and Kenneth Connor doesn't have enough screen time as the proudly dapper but eternally disgusted Frederick Bumble (a shame, as his performance is note-perfect throughout), but all things considered this is a fine example of seaside postcard humour, and much funnier than the cruder Carry On variations that followed.