The French Revolution has begun and citizen Robespierre is beheading the French Aristocracy left right and centre. However, when the elusive and mysterious black fingernail starts interfering with these executions leader of the French secret police Citizen Camembert and his assistant Citizen Bidet set about trying to track him down and bring him to justice...
At the time of writing this review, Don't Lose Your Head is the latest (in terms of chronology) film that I have seen thus far. Like its predecessors it still delivers the goods in what we would expect from a Carry on film; innuendo, amusing one liners, character pratfalls etc. Although you could argue that the innuendo side of things is a tad overdone here, it still mostly works and provides plenty of laughs. One thing I noticed with this Carry on entry that I hadn't with any of the earlier entries was the numerous breaking of the 4th wall by several characters. Whilst this wasn't a problem, it was something new and is intended more as an observation.
I think one of the things that makes the film so funny is in how ridiculous it is; you know on several occasions that Camembert and Bidet should easily recognise the black fingernail, but it's clearly intended as a joke and to poke fun at the incompetence of the police (and I could buy into it with this film).
The cast features many of the regulars whom, by this time, were starting to become comfortable working with one another and were, by now, building up a natural rapport. Sid James is great as the loveable rogue, similarly Butterworth, Williams, Sims and Dale were all on fine form and were great fun to watch.
Those who are looking for any kind of history lesson won't find one here as the French revolution is really just a backdrop to frame the story (then again if you're a Carry on fan you'll no doubt be watching this film because you want it to make you laugh and in this respect Don't Lose Your Head doesn't disappoint).
It doesn't quite bring the belly laughs that some of the earlier entries have offered, but if you're a fan you'll still love this.
HONOURABLE MENTION; the gag with Hawtrey and Williams where the former asks the latter if he is looking for the black fingernail and then... well I won't spoil that scene, but it did really make me laugh.
At the time of writing this review, Don't Lose Your Head is the latest (in terms of chronology) film that I have seen thus far. Like its predecessors it still delivers the goods in what we would expect from a Carry on film; innuendo, amusing one liners, character pratfalls etc. Although you could argue that the innuendo side of things is a tad overdone here, it still mostly works and provides plenty of laughs. One thing I noticed with this Carry on entry that I hadn't with any of the earlier entries was the numerous breaking of the 4th wall by several characters. Whilst this wasn't a problem, it was something new and is intended more as an observation.
I think one of the things that makes the film so funny is in how ridiculous it is; you know on several occasions that Camembert and Bidet should easily recognise the black fingernail, but it's clearly intended as a joke and to poke fun at the incompetence of the police (and I could buy into it with this film).
The cast features many of the regulars whom, by this time, were starting to become comfortable working with one another and were, by now, building up a natural rapport. Sid James is great as the loveable rogue, similarly Butterworth, Williams, Sims and Dale were all on fine form and were great fun to watch.
Those who are looking for any kind of history lesson won't find one here as the French revolution is really just a backdrop to frame the story (then again if you're a Carry on fan you'll no doubt be watching this film because you want it to make you laugh and in this respect Don't Lose Your Head doesn't disappoint).
It doesn't quite bring the belly laughs that some of the earlier entries have offered, but if you're a fan you'll still love this.
HONOURABLE MENTION; the gag with Hawtrey and Williams where the former asks the latter if he is looking for the black fingernail and then... well I won't spoil that scene, but it did really make me laugh.