Best movie of this year hands down!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The first "Carry On" film in colour, this is enormous fun. Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor and Sid James (once again playing the straight man) are at the top of their game, although the absences of Charles Hawtrey (for the only time until he was dropped from the series in 1973), Joan Sims and Hattie Jacques are very noticeable. He has a fairly small role but the untalented Lance Percival makes for a very poor Hawtrey substitute. All I could think was how much better Hawtrey would have as Haines, the violently seasick ship's chef who can't cook. The comic potential of the character is wasted. On the bright side, Dilys Laye is more than worthy of filling Sims' shoes, particularly in the drinking scene. Esma Cannon gets more to do than in the last two films and is absolutely hilarious. The contrast between her and James is brilliant.

Over-reliant on crude physical falling about type comedy. Liz Fraser does it best when she "collapses in a dead faint" (she's a big lass). The clowning tends to hide the plot. There is one of sorts: the rookie crew are trying to impress, and the doctor (Ken Connor) is in love with Florence (Dilys Laye), who's hunting a husband in all the wrong places. Keep watching, though, as there are some very funny lines. When Laye throws herself at the captain he growls: "Flo! Ebb a bit!" Kenneth Williams is as brilliant as ever. When the captain calls for the barman, Tree, Williams ripostes something like "Where's Tree? I don't know, but there's a potted palm outside the first class dining room." And when the Captain reads him out a long list of tasks, he breaks into song "and a partriiiiidge in a pear tree - oh, sorry sir." Williams had a good voice and so did Connor (he gets Liz Fraser on his side by serenading the sleeping Laye). It's a shame Connor is so, so, so painfully unfunny. Oddly, Williams thought he was hilarious.

Sid James and Kenneth Williams can't salvage this very weak Carry On offering. Sid plays the captain of Mediterranean cruise ship who has a completely new and thoroughly inept crew thrust upon him just when he needs a perfect cruise to earn the promotion he so thoroughly deserves. Kenneth Williams, Lance Percival and Kenneth Connor are the crew who make Sid's cruise so difficult.The inept crew bumble through some timid Carry On farce with an over reliance on falling over and a weak script to pull it all together. It doesn't have the warmth that the best films in the series have and just drifts through to its inevitable cheesy ending without any real laughs.

A captain, on his final voyage before retirement, is lumbered with a crew like a ship of fools and the passengers are a pretty strange bunch too.An early entry but one that is promising and entertaining nonetheless. Sid James slightly under-used as the ship's captain but Kenneths Connor and Williams make a good bumbling double act.