The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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

Having recently arrived in the United States, clumsy British sanitation engineer Marshal P. Knutt (Jim Dale) applies for work and, due to a mix-up concerning his name, is mistaken for a U.S. Marshall and sent to lawless Stodge City to 'clean up the town'.I'm a life-long fan of the Carry On series and have seen most of them several times over, but this rather ambitious attempt at parodying the Western genre is one I rarely revisit, being far from the gang's best work. The film delivers a few stunts, a spot of action, and a surprisingly convincing Wild West town setting, but the plot is uninspired, much of the humour is laboured, and the film comes seriously unstuck thanks to the extremely awkward performances, the majority of the cast clearly struggling hard to pull off a convincing American accent.Sid James, as outlaw The Rumpo Kid, suffers the worst, his crap cowboy drawl sounding like a strange cross between Jimmy Cagney and… err… well, Sid James. John Wayne it ain't! Other guilty parties include Kenneth Williams, who aims for gruff Texan (but shoots wide of the target), and Joan Sims as buxom saloon owner Belle and Angela Douglas as beautiful vengeful gunslinger Annie Oakley, both of whom sound more West End than Wild West. Charles Hawtree plays a red Indian chief, but wisely opts to stick with an English accent.On a more positive note, Jon 'Dr Who' Pertwee, who plays blind and deaf Sheriff Albert Earp, provides a few solid laughs by blundering into obstacles at every turn, there's a fun cat-fight between sexy Sims and delicious Douglas as they vie for Dale's attention (with Edina Ronay joining in on the fun as well), and a silly High Noon-style finale manages to end the film in reasonable style.5.5/10, rounded up to 6 for Douglas's sexy musical number, which she performs in a body stocking decorated with diamanté, accessorised with a big, pink feather boa. Yeehaw!

CARRY ON COWBOY, an extremely broad spoof of the ever-popular western genre, marks a real high for the Carry On team; this is even better than CARRY ON CLEO, and despite missing a couple of regulars in Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Connor, this proves to be a real highlight of the series.The film features a devilish turn from Sid James, who's having a ball as the Rumpo Kid, a gunslinger and outlaw who holes up in a western town and proceeds to wreak havoc. Up against him are nasally Mayor Kenneth Williams, the famous sharpshooter of legend Annie Oakes (played well by Angela Douglas), and Jim Dale as a would-be Marshall.Jim Dale is the real revelation, playing what was quite possibly his best role in a Carry On movie. He's charming, endlessly funny, and gives a decent performance too. I never much liked the guy when I watched these movies as a kid, but that's changed with his role here. CARRY ON COWBOY also features two additions to the stable, with the excellent Peter Butterworth and Bernard Bresslaw in minor parts. The humour is typically scattershot but it has a high threshold of laughs compared to groans, and fans will be in their element.

Stodge City is a typical town in the Old West but with an old sheriff and feckless mayor it is wide open to more powerful men. Spotting this, the Rumpo Kid moves in and takes over. No lawman is available to take the place but the Department of Internal Affairs assigns a Marshall Knutt to clean the place up. Sadly Marshal P. Knutt is not actually a Marshall – just a plumber with an unfortunate name. However with a young lady stuck on revenge by his side, Knutt decides to do the best he can to help the town.Starting out with some good gags, this entry in the Carry On series looks like it could have been great fun until it gradually slides into a rather plodding affair that is amusing at times but is never really that funny. Part of the problem is the plot, it is neither the good type that the better CO films have or the freewheeling collection of sketches in others. Instead it tries to be the former but comes off rather messy and a little distracting by just how unengaging it is. This shouldn't really be a problem of course, but the fact is that I wasn't laughing enough not to notice this problem. There are a few good lines and it is consistent in the use of slightly rude puns and such that will please fans of the series without really drawing any big laughs.The cast are enjoyably silly as always but here the terrible accents highlight that they are trying (and failing) in their performances. Pretty much every single attempt at an American accent is awful and only occasionally do you not notice it – and even then it is because it has lapsed into the actor's normal voice (most noticeably Douglas). James could have done with better material but he is a fun, rowdy character and makes for a good central figure. Conversely Dale is not as good. He plays his usual role well enough but he is too bland and wishy-washy to compete for our interests with James. Williams, Hawtrey and Butterworth are all amusing in supporting roles but Sims is lumbered with too few good lines and too much of the clunky plot and, unsurprisingly, Bresslaw is the "big tall man in ethnic face paint". Aside from her accent Douglas could have brought real pluck to her role but she has no spark or energy and simply goes through the motions when she could have done so much more.Overall this is an OK Carry On film. I enjoy some of the series but Cowboy was far from being one of the best films. The plot doesn't work but more damning is the lack of good laughs. A scattering of funny moments and good lines keep it going but the material is never that strong. The cast are still worth watching thanks to a couple of reliable faces but even they struggle and aren't helped in the least by the fact that almost none of them can do an American accent worth a cent.

This is probably the best film in the Carry On series.This would be far more critically well received if were not part of a series. The acting is unusually good, as are the sets and costumes.It is hardly intellectually stimulating, but it isn't supposed to be.I know I am not exactly comparing like with like, but 'Annie Hall', for example is a far cleverer film, yet it didn't make me laugh as much. Surely laughter is the main, possibly the only reason for watching a comedy.