Incannerax What a waste of my time!!!

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

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.

Yazmin Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Leofwine_draca Fans of the original CARRY ON DOCTOR might well be forgiven for assuming that this rushed-out sequel offers more of exactly the same, and indeed for the first half of the production that's exactly the case. Once more, the setting of the film is a hospital, with Hattie Jacques as Matron and Kenneth Williams as a pompous doctor. It's all very warm and familiar, with most of the Carry On team present and correct. Once again, Jim Dale is the focus of the slapstick comedy, and there's also a meatier role for Charles Hawtrey who gets probably the most screen time of his Carry On career.So far, so predictable and yet so amusing - fans will be in their element with another assured, confident piece of film-making, packed with seaside postcard-style humour. And then at the halfway point things change; there are exotic locales and a surprisingly densely-plotted narrative involving a magical weight loss elixir. This all builds to an unpredictable climax with multiple factions attempting to get one over on each other; it's the most complex script-writing of the series since the early 1960s, and proved to be a great and welcome surprise for this fan.

BA_Harrison With the Carry On gang returning to the medical arena for a third time, it was almost inevitable that the laughs would feel more strained. The script is certainly weaker, with more obvious gags and an over-reliance on puerile slapstick and pratfalls, but the real problem here as far as I am concerned is with the casting, the performers seemingly far less comfortable in their roles this time around.Jim Dale, who played such a likable physician in Carry On Doctor, struggles as a womanising doctor who takes advantage of others for profit; Charles Hawtrey, so believable as a highly strung patient, is unconvincing as senior house surgeon Doctor Ernest Stoppidge; Babs Windsor is there simply to flash some flesh; and Sid James is wasted as tropical island doctor Gladstone Screwer, a role that feels like an extended cameo.Meanwhile, Wilfrid Brambell appears in a pointless scene where he gropes a nurse, 70s sexpot Valerie Leon briefly flaunts her cleavage, and Peter Butterworth is demoted to the part of 'Shuffling Patient'. Worst of all, there's no Frankie Howerd or Bernard Bresslaw!6/10, which is a poor rating from such an avid Carry On fan.

Spikeopath The 18th of the Carry On series and the third of the medical themed adventures, plot finds Jim Dale as Doctor Nookie, who is stitched up by his superiors and sent to a tropical Beautific island to tender medical treatment to the natives. What he actually finds when he gets there is a rainy windswept isle that has no need for his services at all. The compound is run by Gladstone Screwer (Sid James), a crafty old sort who deals in whisky and cigarettes and has a wife for every day of the week. Screwer also has something else of interest that perks up the flagging interest of Nookie, a potion that considerably aids weight loss. Nookie senses an opportunity to make a financial killing back in Blighty whilst simultaneously getting one over the superiors who had him sent to his island misery.This was the last of 10 Carry On films for Jim Dale before he returned for the ill conceived "modern" reinvention that was Carry On Columbus in 1992. I don't know if the makers knew that Dale would be leaving the series and thus made him the lead character in this jovial farce? But it proves to be a smart move. One of the unsung heroes of the series, Dale's energy and comic reactions to plot situations were always a joy to watch, and here, with James in customary wise cracking support, he lifts the film above the ordinary with a show of endearing buffoonery. He also did his own stunts and broke his arm on this production. Director Gerald Thomas keeps things brisk, with the double location axis of the plot stopping things from stagnating visually, Charles Hawtrey goes undercover in drag to provide the last third of the film with some quality laughs and the likes of Barbara Windsor and Valerie Leron raise the pulses considerably.Thin of plot but big on charm and laughs, one of the better Carry On movies. 7.5/10

ShadeGrenade 'Again Doctor' ( 1969 ) proved to be Jim Dale's last film in the 'Carry On series for twenty-three years ( he foolishly signed on for 'Columbus' in 1992 ). It cast him as the accident-prone but likable 'Dr.Jim Nookey' of Little Hampton hospital, a man who cannot so much as use an X-ray machine without causing chaos. After losing his girlfriend - the sexy model 'Goldie Locks' ( Barbara Windsor ), and scaring to death a woman patient afraid of men - he is sent in disgrace to a medical mission in the Beatific Islands, run by the seedy Gladstone Screwer ( who else but Sid James? ). Gladstone has developed a weight reduction formula. Sensing a chance to make money, Nookey flies home with some of the stuff. In no time at all he is running a posh clinic in partnership with the rich widow 'Ellen Moore' ( Joan Sims ). Disgusted by his upswing in fortunes is 'Frederick Carver' ( Kenneth Williams ), and his sneaky side-kick 'Dr.Walter Stoppage' ( Charles Hawtrey ). They conspire to bring Nookey down...Talbot Rothwell's script for this movie originated for the rival 'Doctor' series; in fact it was to have been 'Doctor In Clover', until Jack Davies came along with another version. Its not as good as 'Nurse' or 'Doctor', but better than 'Matron'. There were some concerns that 'Nookey' was too similar to Leslie Phillips' 'Dr.Tony Burke/Gaston Grimsdyke' and that 'Frederick Carver' might strike audiences as James Robertson Justice's 'Sir Lancelot Spratt' by another name. Dale is his usual chirpy self. Yes, that really is him in its most famous scene - hurtling down stairs on a trolley while Carver and the Matron ( Hattie Jacques ) look on in disbelief. This scene was later used as the title sequence to I.T.V.'s 'Carry On Laughing' compilation series. All the regulars - barring Bernard Bresslaw and Kenneth Connor - are present and correct, although there's surprisingly little of Peter Butterworth. He's confined to a short scene in which Nookey and a fellow doctor ( Peter Gilmore ) debate which illness he is suffering from.Things To Look Out For - no, its not Babs Windsor's arse ( nice though it is! ) but a cameo by Wilfrid 'Steptoe' Brambell as a dirty old man called 'Mr.Pullen' who is receiving hormone injections on the N.H.S. and as a result keeps making improper suggestions to nurses. The 'Steptoe & Son' series ended in 1965, but Eric Rogers included a few bars of Ron Grainer's theme ( the show would be revived in colour the following year ). The party scene features Rogers himself as bandleader. Some of the music was first heard in 'Carry On Spying' and 'Nurse On Wheels' ( a Peter Rogers comedy starring Juliet Mills as a district nurse ).Funniest moment - Nookey jumps into a hammock in the medical mission, only to go crashing through the floor boards! ( it was not so funny for Dale though, and gave him a back injury he still has to this day! )