You won't be disappointed!

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Fresh and Exciting

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Sid James plays the hotel owner of a town. He wants to bring people to his town and liven it up. He suggests a beauty contest to the town council. The women are against it, but the men vote for it. Joan Sims plays Sid's fiancé and she is always watching his every move. Sid calls his friend in another town(played by Bernard Bresselaw). He wants him to help judge the contest. His girlfriend(played by Valerie Leon) wants to go, but he convinces her to stay home. She is not aware that he is to judge a beauty contest. Barbara Windsor plays a lively character who rides into town on a motorcycle. She has come to enter the contest. I am not really attracted to her body. She does not have the best body in the world. The women try to destroy the contest and the men try to add publicity where ever they can. Valerie Leon decides to visit and finds Bernard kissing another woman. She finds out it was nothing. Valerie has a scene in her undies and a bikini. She looks great. The women sabotage the contest and Sid makes an exciting escape in a motor cart. He and Barbara leave town on her bike. Good ending to the last of the Carry-On's before they got too risqué.

Except for the absence of Kenneth Williams, I would recommend this film to new fans of the Carry On series, as it is typical of the brand of humor that is a thread of all their films. The seaside resort town of Fircombe needs a boost so Sidney Fiddler (the always good Sid James) comes up with the idea of a beauty contest. This does not sit well with some of the ladies of the town, especially June Whitfield's character Miss Prodworthy (the names are, of course, all intentional). The film basically goes into the contest, with silliness, comic misadventures and double entendres. Not perfect, and not their best, its fun to watch. Except for the aforementioned Mr. Williams and Hattie Jacques, the gang is all here. Enjoy!

As his name suggests, Sidney Fiddler is a bit of a wheeler-dealer who never misses a chance to make a buck. So when he suggests to the town's mayor that a beauty contest would be a good way to make money and raise the tourist appeal of the seaside resort. With a literal bevy of beautiful women in the line up things look like being a winner; however even the best plans cannot account for a mayor unable to keep his trousers on, an angry women's rights group and ill-judged attempts to win publicity.OK, lets be honest here – Carry On films are hardly great works of art and even the best films in the series are only crude and funny without being that good by my usual standards. However, (and apologies to Mark Kermode for the theft) 'Girls' makes even the average entries in the series look like Citizen Kane. Those familiar with British film comedies from the 1970's will know (with heavy hearts) that Girls falls into this genre with a very basic and crude collection of sexual 'japes' and very cheap production values. The script sets up sub-Benny Hill antics that are rarely funny and are all the worse for lacking any sense of wit or subtlety that the better films in the series have. The ending (a go-kart chase) is a perfect example of the silly material and it just falls in with being as bad as films like the 'Confessions' series – a series that makes Carry On films look like Oscar Wilde at his finest!The cast try hard but those that remain of the Carry on regulars find themselves having to work hard to cover the weaknesses in the humour. James and Windsor try hard by both doing their usual stuff to good effect, but the rest of the cast is weak. Sims has little to do, Connor has simple humour and does as little with it as he was expected to. Bresslaw has rubbish material; he was never the greatest of the team but dressing him in underwear here is stupid and his subplot is too badly done as well. Whitfield is average but amusingly dubbed Leon all the way through the film (not sure why!) and the rest of the cast just take off their dresses as requested and add nothing more than lazy sexual 'humour'.A poor entry in the series that sadly just emulates the basic sexual antics and crudities of other British 'comedies' of the period. Carry On's are hardly that good at the best of times but this film lacks any wit, effort or real laughs. The film looks cheap and crude and was just part of the pathetic whimper that marked the final days of the series.

This is a fun movie. Yes, it may be politically incorrect by today's standards. Sure. But who cares? What's funny is funny. I for one can find the humour in the CARRY ON movies -- and I was born after the last of the series was made! There's nothing explicit in GIRLS, nothing truly offensive (the makers poke more fun at the men than they do the women) and come on, it's just harmless boob and bum laughs, anyway.I love this movie because it makes me laugh, and makes me laugh every time I see it (which is quite a few times now). The jokes all hit the mark. There is an actual plot, unlike the comparable sex comedies being made today. The acting is fantastic. Sid James, Barbara Windsor and the usual gang know what they're doing and they do it perfectly. The only true weakness I would say is the directing and editing, though I would chalk that up to the obvious constraints of making films on a low budget.And, in conclusion, to all those who decry the CARRY ON films as being old sexist rubbish, let me just say, in the words of the late great Sid James: "Knickers!"