Michael_Elliott Carry On Emmannuelle (1978) * 1/2 (out of 4) British comedy has Emmannuelle (Suzanne Danielle) going to stay with her upper class husband and having to teach all the workers what it means to be sexual. I recently bought a "Grindhouse 20-Film Collection", which features ten double-features and this film was shown with the one above but I guess the company didn't watch the film before including it. If you're wanting any sleaze or trash then you're not going to find it here but there are a few funny moments but a lot of the comedy is so far over the top that it comes off very force and juvenile. This was my first film from the "Carry On" series, which started in 1958.

MARIO GAUCI This film exhibits a severe drop in quality in this popular long-running comedy franchise and is deservedly considered its nadir (no wonder it proved the last entry for 14 years!). Despite the connection to the soft-core French series (which offset a parallel Italian one), it's really quite tame: statuesque Suzanne Danielle is quite delightful, and the film is chiefly tolerable because of her – the rest is generally tasteless and, sadly, rather lame! On the other hand, the series stalwarts are given little of substance to do, none more so than top-billed Kenneth Williams (who's embarrassing, given that he has to appear butt-naked several times throughout!); guest star Beryl Reid is also wasted as a doting mother of one of Emmanuelle's conquests, and Albert Moses (from the MIND YOUR LANGUAGE TV series) turns up as Williams' bemused psychiatrist.As was the case with the French original, there's little plot to tie the relentless sexcapades: the liberal Emmanuelle's wrecking of a society dinner is immediately followed by a would-be satirical sequence showing her go through various public offices delivering her own special favors. At one point, she even bets with chauffeur Kenneth Connor that she can seduce the Queen's guards – but the scene has an ironic (if predictable) twist; throughout the course of the film, an entire soccer team, an infatuated naïve young man (Reid's son) and a body-building celebrity also figure among the insatiable Emmannuelle's endless parade of lovers.She even arouses Williams' servants – all of them series stalwarts – who open up to reveal their most unusual individual experience in the matter: while these scenes show some invention, essentially they're just a lazy form of padding!; incidentally, Barbara Windsor was supposed to incarnate all of their 'dream lovers' – but, wisely, she dropped out of the project. At the end, husband Williams suddenly finds himself willing (he'd otherwise been obsessed with keeping fit!) and feeds Emmannuelle fertility pills behind her back...leading to a multiple-birth finale which may (or may not) be intended as a nod to Preston Sturges' THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK (1944)!!

hugh1971 I do think this is possibly one of the worst films I've ever seen. Carry on England was dire, but the Windsor Davies/Ken Connor routines weren't bad and the film seemed at least competently produced, but Emmanuelle is just poor from so many angles - technically - the awful cheap film stock which looks like it was leftover from a Shake 'n' Vac commercial, the crass innuendos and the need to hammer home obvious jokes (eg: I left in 1953. But the war ended in 1945...?).Then there's the stock footage of London tourist spots in a lame attempt to interest overseas viewers, and the rubbish sub-Terry Gilliam 'special effects'. We also get the staple flouncy homo and comedy pakistanis. The acting is woeful with the good actors looking embarrassed or bored and the bad ones trying too hard. Miss Danielle, though very pretty, was I suspect overenthusiastically cast in the Mary Millington mould - perhaps the protégé of someone in the film industry who promised to 'make her a star'.It's also very dated in its approach to sex. You can almost hear the writers thinking 'all that innuendo in the fifties and sixties is old hat, man. This is the permissive society now, and, like, sex is cool and everybody's doing it, even fat old ladies in launderettes!' This results in a number of sordid 'gags'(middle aged servants spying on a couple in bed, a leering football team queueing up for a gang bang, references to contraceptive pills, but strangely no reference to the clap, which I would imagine Emmannuelle must have picked up a few times - though perhaps STDs didn't exist in the mind of 1970s scriptwriters... etc). The film even opens with the seventies fantasy of random strangers joining the 'mile high club'. One or two jokes made me laugh 'You for coffee? No I'm staying here' but these were few and far between.This could have been so much better in the hands of a competent scriptwriter and the old Carry On gang, but as it is this is a sad shadow of the former films and not really a Carry On at all, but a feeble dated British sex comedy, which is neither sexy nor funny.

m_pratt The film is centred on sex. After all it was 1978. The cast look tired. No one shows any interest. There is nude scene by the nurse which is just so not carry on.The acting is terrible its a load of crap. By this time the carry ons where cremated.The carry ons in their hey day where about good clean fun. This film is so bad its embarrassing. I would be ashamed to be part of a film like this. The carry on team made them special. This film is poor sad and crude. Even Joan Sims has a crude sad unfunny name " Mrs dangle". The stories which Butterworth Douglas Sims and Connor tell about sex experiences are sad and embarrassing. Kenneth Williams is poor in his final carry on.The script is chronic.The football stadium scene is terrible it is a bad example to all. All those men Emmanuelle has sex with you would have she could have caught Sexuallly transmitted infection!!. Larry Dann is stalking her as he is in love with her as they had sex on the plane in the toilet at the beginning. Overall a sad poor crude unfunny carry on film avoid this crap!!.