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I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

The acting in this movie is really good.

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).

It's difficult to review a movie like this because it's formula is so close to that of the others in the series. On the other hand, that makes it extremely easy to comment on it: It's like all the others in the series. It should be thought of as a single television program with multiple episodes and the same characters carried over from one to the next.The humor makes Mel Brooks look elegant. The safari through the studio jungle comes across scattered piles of elephant dung. "You dropped one, Madam," says Sid James to the haughty matriarch, before he bends down and picks up her handkerchief.If you've seen any of the other episodes and enjoyed it, you'll enjoy this one too. I can't go on, not even merely commenting on it. It hurts too much.

I have to admit before I started watching this I thought it was going to be two stars out of five, if I'm honest it looked like it might be terrible, but at three stars I can agree with that. Basically at the same time as Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howerd) is searching for the legendary Oozlum bird, Lady Evelyn Bagley (Joan Sims) joins an expedition in the jungles of Africa looking for her long lost son who disappeared as a baby. They are led by fearless hunter and also lovingly dirty minded Bill Boosey (Sid James) and his African guide Upsidaisi (Bernard Bresslaw), and also joining them are Tinkle's daft assistant Claude Chumley (Kenneth Connor) and Lady Bagley's almost unnoticed maidservant June (Jacki Piper). As the search for the son and the legendary bird goes on the trackers are constantly on the lookout for the animals and dangerous tribes people who roam the jungles. We also eventually find out that the jungle boy swinging around the vines, Ug (Terry Scott) is in fact Lady Bagley's son Cecil grown up, and falling in love and learning English from the now happy June. Soon enough the explorers are captured by a tribe called the Noshas, who are cannibals and plan to eat them all, but they are "rescued" by another tribe, the all beautiful bikini wearing women Lubby Dubby. They are taken to meet the leader of the tribe, and the only man they know living amongst them, Tonka the Great aka the long missing Walter Bagley (Charles Hawtrey), and hearing the tribe plan for all the men his wife Evelyn demands to be part of the leadership. Their plan for them is to have all the men, i.e. Boosey, Tinkle and Chumley perform their jobs every day until death, and that is to mate with the women, of course at first they are up for this because they are all beautiful, well, not all. In the end, after almost mating at last with beautiful women everyone is saved by Upsidaisi and his men, Tinkle gets his Oozlum bird which somehow disappears when returning home, and Ug and June live in their own hut house in the suburbs. Also starring The Spy Who Loved Me's Valerie Leon as Leda and Reuben Martin as Gorilla. I should be said that I can't see Barbara Windsor fitting into this film even I wanted her, anyway, this blatantly spoofs the Tarzan and The Jungle Book style films we have come to enjoy, and jam packed with innuendos, double entendres, slapstick and dialogue jokes, and sexy girls in not much clothing this is certainly comedy you will not dislike. Worth watching!

I first saw this movie a few years ago and became a fan of the whole series. Most of my favorites are here and they all have great parts in it. Sid James plays the leader of an expedition in the jungle. The beautiful Jacki Piper makes her debut in the Carry On's playing June. She resembles the Jane character from the Tarzan movies. Bernard Bresselaw has a funny part as Sid's right hand man on the journey. Also we have Terry Scott in his finest role of the series as Ugh, the jungle boy. He is the Tarzan character who is a bumbler. Joan Sims, Kenneth Conner and Frankie Howerd round out the main cast. This movie is just likable. There are plenty of funny moments as the cast makes their way thru the jungle. My favorite parts include Jacki Piper and Terry Scott. They make a wonderful couple. He is instantly attracted to her and she to him. The last 20 minutes brings us the best part of the film. All but Jacki and Ugh are saved from and taken by a tribe of women. They want the men to mate with their tribe. Jacki gets away with Ugh and they she teaches him to speak English. She is now wearing jungle bikini and she looks perfect. They have some funny scenes where he keeps miss-pronouncing words so he can make love to her. The men are upset that must make love to ugly women. Finally they are about to make love to hot women and they are rescued by Ugh and Jacki. Valerie Leon plays the leader of the women's tribe and she has a very nice body as well. Sid James is also great as always, but Jacki Piper is my favorite here. Her jungle bikini makes the movie for me.