Certainly it's vulgar,perhaps even crude,but it's a "Carry On" and vulgarity is what they do.Thirty years ago we laughed innocently at large - bosomed ladies of doubtful provenance,outrageous double entendres and sexually ambivalent blokes.Now we daren't.Only in the privacy of our own homes with a DVD virtually in a plain wrapper do we feel free to enjoy what is basically a continuation of the Music Hall tradition of unsophisticated working - class humour.Cerebral it isn't. If you're looking for cerebral jokes find yourself a funny brain surgeon. What you get with "Carry on Dick" is a brilliant late - flowering example of the canon.It is Low Humour,certainly,but it's very funny Low Humour.Mr K.Connor is outstanding as the constable,Mr S.James and Mr P. Butterworth Drag up,Mr K.Williams howls very satisfactorily and Miss B. Windsor allows us a rare glimpse of her nipples before dissolving into a fit of giggles. Before the Thought Police kick down my door because I prefer honest vulgarity to endless streams of f - dash from Russell Brand and Billy f - dashing Connolly I proclaim that "Carry on Dick" is a very funny film and it will make you laugh out loud.Don't let anybody tell you different.

Carry on Dick is a hugely amusing entry in the series, it boasts a classic cast, they were somehow missing something beyond this one, maybe Sid James. James is fabulous, so funny, it is essentially the same character he plays in Don't lose your head, and the two films perhaps blur, but this one still boasts big laughs. The team had certainly pushed the boundaries, this is more smutty then usual, jokes galore about diddlers and bid Dick. It's still mind by today's standards though.

Laughs galore, Sid and Kenneth Williams are hilarious, the timing and delivery impeccable as always. Williams and Jack Douglas make a fine duo, it's the facial expressions from the former that get the laughs. Barbara Windsor is excellent in this film, but it's the interaction with Sid James that I find fascinating, you can see the real life closeness that existed between the pair very strongly.

Whenever I watch this one I always think how underused Patsy Rowlands was, too often only having minor roles, but wonderfully talented. Hattie Jacques is underused here, the delivery is fine, but her part was poor.

Great production values, fabulous costumes and a funny and in keeping score. Kenneth William's wig is a character in its own right.

It's a must for Carry on fans.

CARRY ON DICK is one of the last in the long-running series and indeed the last proper CARRY ON film to feature the likes of Sid James, Barbara Windsor, and many others of the core team. It's also a last gasp for their historical romps (the previous of which was CARRY ON HENRY), and it's as low brow and crude as the title would suggest.

It's a shame to see that the scripts by this stage had become so puerile because the cast were clearly still game for a laugh and you get a feeling of wasted talent. James is as irresistible as ever, playing a DOCTOR SYN-style figure masquerading as a clergyman by day and acting the highwayman by night, and there are fairly substantial roles for Bernard Bresslaw and an on-form Barbara Windsor. Sad then that about halfway through you realise the script is a complete rip-off of the earlier CARRY ON DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD, only inferior in every respect.

It's been said that writer Talbot Rothwell had a breakdown while authoring the script for CARRY ON DICK, which would understandably be his last film for the franchise, and his paucity of imagination is more than evident. There are tired phallic jokes galore, along with one raunchy scene following another. Only a few moments offer genuine laughs, but it's nevertheless a treat to see the pros going through the old routines one last time.