Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Overrated and overhyped

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

There's trouble brewing at Wm.C. Boggs' lavatory factory, where work-to-rule union rep Vic Spanner (Kenneth Cope) seizes every opportunity to bring out the workers on strike (especially if the local football team is playing at home): unless foreman Sid Plummer (Sidney James) can keep production going, the factory may have to close for good.Times have changed a lot since the 1970s, the decade that saw Britain plagued by industrial action, and Carry On At Your Convenience's once topical 'union workers versus management' storyline now seems very dated. Even so, this film still delivers plenty of laughs thanks to spirited turns from most of the series' regulars (Babs Windsor is the only notable performer missing), lots of quality innuendo, and a script that wisely moves the action away from the shop floor, first to the Plummer home, where Hattie Jacques' budgie proves a winner at the gee-gees, and then to Brighton seafront for the factory's annual drunken day out.The team is on cracking form here, Sid James guffawing for all he's worth while patting lovely Joan Sims on the bum whenever possible, Kenneth Williams putting in a fun turn as factory owner Mr. Boggs, the unwilling subject of his secretary's amorous advances, and big lunk Bernard Bresslaw copping off with a busty blonde in Brighton. Best of all, as far as I am concerned, is the presence of top Carry On crumpet Jackie Piper as pretty tea girl Myrtle, who sports tiny blue hot-pants for the trip to the coast and briefly strips to her bra and knickers after marrying the boss's lucky son Lewis (Richard O'Callaghan).

The Carry On troupe in Carry On At Your Convenience take on management/labor relations in a toilet factory. Kenneth Williams is the owner of a plant that manufactures bathroom accessories, toilets, sinks, bathtubs. His designer of these products is Charles Hawtrey and the plant foreman is Sid James. Given the subject matter there are more chances for scatological one liners than is normal even for a Carry On movie. This is after all a necessary industry. Can you imagine our lives without these devices?Williams gets an order from a rich Arab sheik who wants 1000 special toilets for his thousand wife harem and he wants it with cold and hot running water. Hawtrey designs one and production goes in immediately.That brings management into conflict with organized labor and the head of toilet workers union played by the officious and mother dominated Kenneth Cope. He's the kind of guy who gets off asserting any kind of authority he has. As shop steward he's forever calling for walkouts and strikes on the least little provocation. Funniest moment for me was when the workers go on holiday leave in Brighton and the hotel can't serve them because they're kitchen workers are on strike. What a moment that is for Cope to see what it's like with the shoe on the other foot. Sid James makes the most of it.In fact at the very end of the film Cope is shown to have learned his lesson thoroughly.Labor and management really do come together in the end. A really funny entry from the Carry On series.

'At Your Convienience' is unique in the annals of 'Carry On' history in that it has a political message. Writer Talbot Rothwell had a blinkered view of the British trade union movement, and this is reflected in his script which depicted union officials either as corrupt or stupid. It is set in a toilet factory owned by 'W.C. Boggs' ( Kenneth Williams ). The works foreman is 'Sid Plummer' ( Sid James, of course ), chief toilet designer is 'Charles Coote' ( Charles Hawtrey, in one of his last 'Carry On' roles ), and Boggs has a doting secretary in 'Miss Withering' ( Patsy Rowlands ). Shop steward 'Vic Spanner' ( Kenneth Cope ) brings the work force out when he finds that tea is not allowed to be drunk outside the canteen. The rule book quoting Spanner is like 'Fred Kite' of 'I'm All Right Jack', except that he is younger and has a domineering mother ( Renee Houston ) instead of a nagging wife. Vic is also unhappy because the lovely Myrtle Plummer ( the scrumptious Jacki Piper ), whom he has his eye on, is dating the boss' son 'Lewis' ( Richard O'Callaghan, making the best of a bad role ). Matters come to a head at the workers' annual outing in Brighton...'Convienience' was given short shrift by the public, not making its costs back until 1976! To add insult to injury, the film version of 'On The Buses' thumped it at the box office. Its been said that the blatant right wing content was chiefly to blame. When the Boulting Brothers made 'Jack', they at least made an attempt at balance by depicting the management as greedy buggers. Rothwell made no such effort. Some of the performers - such as O'Callaghan - were distinctly uncomfortable at this.On the plus side, the Brighton day out is a welcome change of pace after the union bashing nonsense, and Sid's impersonation of a gypsy fortune teller hilarious! Hattie Jacques is delightful as Sid's slovenly wife 'Beattie', who sits talking to a parrot all day ( there is a sub-plot about Joey accurately predicting the winners of horse races ). A touching scene occurs as Sid and Chloe Moore ( Joan Sims ) return home after the trip. She would love to ask him in for coffee, but is worried the neighbours might gossip. It is one of the best scenes in any 'Carry On', ending with Sid rasping: "Bloody neighbours!". The series got back on track that year with 'Carry On Matron', and continued for another seven years.Funniest moment - spotting Myrtle climbing into Mr.Lew's sports car, Vic says to his friend 'Bernie Hulke' ( Bernard Bresslaw ): "Follow that car!". Bernie races off on his motorbike, so fast he tears Vic's trousers off, leaving him standing in the middle of the street in his underpants! Finally, I want to comment on Mark Austin - you know, the award-winning I.T.V. anchorman ( shouldn't there be a 'W' in front of that last word? ) - and his outrageous claim in today's 'Sunday Mirror' that 'in the post-war period, the early Seventies to the early Eighties became the barometer for economic hardship, with three million unemployed.". Surely the '30's were far worse, Mark? Unemployment peaked at one and a half million in 1978. It hit three million in 1982. The myth that Margaret Thatcher made Britain great again is exactly that. Before we begin to worry about 'going back to the Seventies', we should first panic at the even more alarming prospect of being taken back to the Eighties.

This Carry On, which features all the main team plus some newer faces, is situated in WC Boggs' factory (toilet = bog in the UK) and goes downhill from there! Sid Plummer (Sid James) has a wife he ignores (Hattie Jacques) and a fellow workmate he is after (Joan Sims); while his daughter is after the managing director's son. There's an annoying shop steward, Spanner (Kenneth Cope in a second role in the series, after playing Cyril in Carry on Matron), who always wants to all everyone on strike.Funny situations are never far away but the icing on the cake in this one is in two scenes - the first, where Boggs' secretary (Patsy Rowlands as the amusingly named Miss Withering) unleashes her sexual frustrations of many years on a shocked Kenneth Williams; and the second, where the works outing leads to a pub crawl where Williams passes the time getting increasingly drunk and singing bawdy songs.There's much amusement over the manufacture of bidets but despite the gags here and there this Carry On is overall a bit of a washout. The team had done better, but this one fits in the middle ground quite well.