Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

BA_Harrison The fifth movie in the popular Carry On series, Regardless opens in an employment office where many of the Carry On regulars are seeking work. When someone spots an advertisement in the local newspaper for a vacancy at The Helping Hands agency, there is a stampede to the office, where boss Bert Handy (Sid James) gives all of the hopefuls jobs, sending each member of staff on an assignment with disastrous results.With a virtually non-existent plot, the film being little more than an episodic series of comedy sketches tenuously linked by the Helping Hands agency, this is one of the least engaging of the Carry On capers. As wonderful as the performers all are, there is little they can do with the lacklustre material, and there are precious few genuine laughs to be had as each character goes about their appointed task. The not-so-hilarious escapades include snobbish Francis Courtenay (Kenneth Williams) taking a chimp for a walk, neurotic chain-smoker Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor) believing that he is involved in espionage, and lovable Lily Duveen (Joan Sims) getting tipsy at a wine tasting event.On the plus side, there's no shortage of crumpet on show to elicit a few 'Phwoar's from male viewers: voluptuous blonde Delia King (Liz Fraser) models lingerie for a husband who is trying to buy a present for his wife, busty brunette housewife Penny Panting (Fenella Fielding) tries to make her husband jealous by dressing sexily and canoodling with Sam, lucky boss Bert gets to examine a line-up of young nurses stripped to their underwear (which, this being the 1960s, involves sexy stockings and suspenders), and Sims' fans get to see Lily in the bath (although copious bubbles preserve her dignity).I rate Carry On Regardless a disappointing 5/10, but deduct one point for Stanley Unwin, whose dreadful gobbledygook routine soon becomes extremely tiresome (he appears in the film numerous times as a potential client who cannot explain his requirements because no one can understand him).

ianlouisiana "I was looking for someone to make a fourth at bridge",an exasperated Eric Pohlman splutters to Sid James after Kenneth Connor has performed a death - defying leap a la Richard Hannay from a speeding train crossing the Forth Bridge.This is just one of a series of misunderstandings that force Sid's "Helping Hands Ltd"to the verge of extinction,only to be rescued at the last minute by their own serendipitous incompetence whilst working for the sublime Stanley Unwin whose career was brief but ecstatic for the former schoolmaster. Apart from a distinctly unfunny Patrick Cargill in a pre Leslie Phillips Leslie Phillips role,"Carry on Regardless" is inoffensive to all but the most po - faced amongst us.There is lots of good old British cheek of course,but it's innocent enough and nicely played. Like Dorian Gray,the series grew more raddled as time progressed,but fifty years ago when the censor's pencil hanged Damoclese - like over the theatre and the cinema,it was much more of an achievement to slip in a few iffy gags into a "Carry On" than it later became to show full frontal nudity then rape and buggery on stage and screen - to no good purpose in my opinion. Not one of the most typical "Carry On"s,"Regardless" finds the genre approaching the crossroads at which point it got progressively better or progressively worst according to individual taste.It is not the beginning of the but it is the end of the beginning.

Jackson Booth-Millard This fifth film in the popular British series of alluring comedy films is probably the only one that doesn't really have a storyline, but the theme is a good hook. Basically a variety of characters are complaining that all jobs that are advertised are boring, and the ones they are interested in disappear. Then they are brought to the Helping Hands agency, run by Bert Handy (Sid James), a new enterprise that specialises in helping people in any kind of odd jobs, these jobs aren't just odd, they're strange in most cases. So Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor) is contacted to be a babysitter for Penny Panting (Fenella Fielding) who really wants company and then to make her husband jealous, Francis Courtenay (Kenneth Williams) is looking after a pet chimpanzee for a woman with flu, and Lily Duveen (Joan Sims) is taking invitation cards for a wine tasting evening which she boozes in. Bert gets himself into a job himself as well, when Sir Theodore (Kynaston Reeves) wants him to take his place in a hospital queue, but he ends up being mistaken for him not as a patient but an inspector, looking over the wards, and some new nurses in their underwear and bras. Francis gets two more jobs, first modelling in a bee-keepers helmet, and then with his knowledge of languages translating for a bickering couple with the wife being German, while Sam is desperate to quit smoking, but can't, oh and Gabriel Dimple (Charles Hawtrey) is helping out at a boxing match, and he ends up being the opponent in the ring when he is insulted, and he wins. Next Sam is over the moon when he thinks he has found a job as a top secret spy, he believes he is expected at the Forth Bridge in Scotland, but it was a mix up and he was actually meant to play the card game bridge. When he returns all the new employees of Helping Hands are teaming up to demonstrate some new products for the Ideal House exhibition, of course this doesn't go well as mishaps ensue while trying to work everything. The final scene sees Bert joining all his employees as they make what might be a last attempt to impress a high paying gibberish talking customer, repairing an old mansion falling apart, but in the end the guy changes his mind allows them to carry on regardless. Also starring Liz Fraser as Delia King, Bill Owen as Mike Weston, Hattie Jacques as Sister, Terence Longdon as Montgomery Infield-Hopping, Joan Hickson as Matron, Esma Cannon as Miss Cooling and Stanley Unwin as Landlord. The cast as usual make you laugh with their enjoyable individual characters, the film is filled with the usual double meaning dialogue, the saucy stuff, a little innuendo, and some slapstick that will certainly make you chuckle, a fun comedy. Carry On films were number 39 on The 100 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. Good!

caledoniancraig-1 The film centred around The Helping Hands business is full of laughs.Favourite sketch is Sam Twist (Kenneth Connor) in the club as steward and is told not to make a sound.You can't help but laugh as he gradually loses the plot when he sees an old man's fly undone on his trousers,an old man falling asleep reading a book and an old man sleeping as his wig slips down over his face.Top notch.A film (like all Carry On films)that I never get sick of watching with all the early Carry On regulars present.Typlical Carry On gags and double-entendre with the campness of Charles Hawtrey and Kenneth Williams always guaranteed to make me laugh.