It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

As the 1970s began, the Carry On team would continue undaunted by a new decade and a changing of the times, they instead embraced it with innuendo laden open arms - for better and worse as would prove to be the case."Loving" finds Sid James and Hattie Jaques as a boyfriend and girlfriend couple operating under false pretences as a wedded bliss couple running a computer dating agency. The central theme is that of a number of hapless and lovelorn singletons who hope to get fixed up by the "Bliss Agency", only to find disaster after disaster, mismatch after mismatch, befalling those hoping for Cupid/Eros' arrows to strike.It's all very plot less, a sort of rerun of Carry On Regardless but with the amiable vignettes of that film replaced here with more knowingly bawdy and sexy scenarios. Terry Scott and James have fun as randy old devils, each thrust into a number of awkward situations via angry girlfriends & boyfriends, Kenny Williams gets the best part of the screenplay as a marriage guidance counsellor - and confirmed bachelor - hopelessly out of his depth when push comes to shove (ooh-err), while Jacki Piper and Imogen Hassall positively steam up the screen with underwear and push-up-bra revelations.The 70s would prove to be a troublesome decade for the series, and this does feel like the start of the slide, which is annoying since the rather cheeky and funny Carry On Up the Jungle was also released this same year. There is some value in "Loving", it has Sid and Hattie as a warring couple, which is always fun to be part of, while Williams and Scott throw themselves into their roles - just as Bernard Bresslaw steals scenes as a hulking wrestler miffed at Joan Sims' being the apple of Sid James' eye! But it feels forced and although it has some moments for fans to enjoy, the high points of Carry On Up the Kyber and the box office gold of Carry On Camping would ultimately prove to be nostalgic glances back to the series' better days. 6/10

I grew up in early teenage years when the Carry On films were dying out. When I looked back on the history of the films I found I didn't get on with the very early ones or the very late ones. The best were in the mid to late sixties. This one, from 1970, is such a departure from those sixties films, but has the same writer in Talbot Rothwell. What went wrong? I can only assume he had an off-day. Where are the clever words, the clever double entendres rather than in-your-face single entendres that we get? It seems very much like a theatre farce and the success of the films a few years previously, is forgotten. The outright sexism is now so dated which is also a departure from the nod-and-wink sex laughs from the previous films. A subtle change, but an important one. This has to be one of the worst Carry Ons I have ever seen.

With the famous British sex based comedy series heading into the 1970's naturally things were going to get a little ruder, due to things like Emmanuelle and more pornography available, but luckily this film is bearable and not grim viewing. Basically the Wedded Bliss dating agency is specialised in bringing together lonely single people that want to find that special someone and obviously get married very quickly. Owner Sidney Bliss (Sid James) is recently having complications with his work partner and fake business wife Sophie Plummett (Hattie Jacques) becoming very paranoid and argumentative, but he is determined to keep things going. We obviously see the strange people who are visiting the dating agency looking for love and more, these include seamstress Esme Crowfoot (Joan Sims), confirmed bachelor and marriage councillor Percival Snooper (Kenneth Williams), timid and nervous Bertrum Muffet (Richard O'Callaghan) and Terence Philpot (Terry Scott). Bertrum manages to get a blind date but confuses his actual date partner with model Sally Martin (Jacki Piper), Terry manages to find a beautiful big breasted mate with Jenny Grubb (Imogen Hassall) but cannot get the moment to seduce her, and Esme finds herself a partner but has to keep him from original boxer boyfriend Gripper Burke (Bernard Bresslaw). While all this is going Sidney is unaware that Sophie may still have feelings for him, but with her angry nature she hires private eye James Bedsop (Charles Hawtrey) to follow him and his activities. In the end all the happy couples, including a reformed Sidney and Sophie, are brought together for a celebratory dinner, filled with loads of cream cakes, and some arguing turns into a mass food fight. As always the cast play the parts we have become used to, it's a little annoying Barbara Windsor isn't featuring, but you can forgive it because of all the actually surprisingly funny sexualised antics, and close to the mark innuendos and double-entendre jokes we adore, I can slightly see why the critics give it two stars out of five, but personally I think it is a fun and near worthwhile comedy. Okay!

"Carry On Loving" was repeated on television on the most appropriate day - St. Valentine's Day. I had never seen this addition to the series before and was looking forward to seeing it as it was on very late on a Friday night. It was standard "Carry On" fare, but a little disappointing.A group of "lonely hearts" try their luck at the Wedded Bliss Computer Dating Agency - run by the ever-enterprising Sid James and his battleaxe wife Hattie Jacques. The film suffers from loss of the usual humour and the stalwarts lose their importance due to the woefully inadequate screen time spent on the "happy couples" - Terry Scott and Imogen Hassall and Richard O' Callaghan and Jacki Piper.There are fine performances from everyone including Charles Hawtrey as an inept private detective with very limited importance, Joan Sims as Sid's bit-on-the-side, Kenneth Williams as an UNMARRIED marriage guidance councillor and Bernard Bresslaw as the manic pro-wrestler Gripper Burke, not forgetting some delightful cameos from Peter Butterworth, Patsy Rowlands, Bill Maynard, Julian Holloway, Joan Hickson and Bill Pertwee.Overall, a good "Carry On" film, but not a great one. If you have never seen a "Carry On" film before, try watching something earlier such as "Carry On Cowboy" or "Carry On Up the Khyber" etc, then watch this, but be warned, Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Bresslaw and Peter Butterworth are sadly under-used.7 out of 10.