646f9e108c Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition. But the Sultan of Turkey, who makes a great deal of money through taxing the merchants who have to pass through his country on the current route, sends his best spy, Fatima, to wreck the trip. Christopher Columbus, with the help of the Spanish queen, gets on board to discover India. He does America instead, that is full of tricky aborigines.<br/><br/>A foolhardy and predictably doomed attempt to get recovered a formula that worn out its date twenty years ago. The once-individual humour of double entendres, sex-overdose and sheer crudity, which has always depended very much on taste, no longer raises even chuckles. Tired antics of a loosely assembled new cast helps no more than the insignificant minority of once-regulars (Jim Dale, June Whitfield, Bernard Cribbins, Jon Pertwee, Leslie Phillips, Jack Douglas, Peter Gilmore). I guess I should probably mention some backstory on this film series. The &quot;Carry On&quot; series was a long running British movie franchise that started in the 1950&#39;s and (as best to my knowledge) featured unrelated comedies with the same actors. Sound familiar? It would be easy to say that this was just a Monty Python wannabe…except that it actually came out before Monty Python. It doesn&#39;t matter, because Monty Python is by far the superior series. I didn&#39;t know much about these films other than that they made jokes about naked women.<br/><br/>That is in fact what I got. Wait, there was also this really annoying character who was obviously a gay stereotype. Almost every joke about him was that he was gay. I guess this film just holds up poorly. I&#39;m surprised at how bad the production values of this film are. It was made in the 1990&#39;s, but it looks more like it was made in the 1970&#39;s. Maybe I just got a bad version. It seemed like there wasn&#39;t much of an attempt to make jokes of any kind. There was the occasional laugh, but that was it. I&#39;m amazed that this was the first movie in the series in fourteen years! &quot;Carry On Emanuelle&quot; may have been bad enough to end this franchise for awhile, but this entry killed it off for good. I guess it&#39;s hard to judgethis is the first &quot;Carry On&quot; movie I&#39;ve seen, but it seems like a waste of time or bad even by their own standards. *1/2
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