Carry On Up the Jungle (1970)

I love this movie so much

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

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

I have to admit before I started watching this I thought it was going to be two stars out of five, if I'm honest it looked like it might be terrible, but at three stars I can agree with that. Basically at the same time as Professor Inigo Tinkle (Frankie Howerd) is searching for the legendary Oozlum bird, Lady Evelyn Bagley (Joan Sims) joins an expedition in the jungles of Africa looking for her long lost son who disappeared as a baby. They are led by fearless hunter and also lovingly dirty minded Bill Boosey (Sid James) and his African guide Upsidaisi (Bernard Bresslaw), and also joining them are Tinkle's daft assistant Claude Chumley (Kenneth Connor) and Lady Bagley's almost unnoticed maidservant June (Jacki Piper). As the search for the son and the legendary bird goes on the trackers are constantly on the lookout for the animals and dangerous tribes people who roam the jungles. We also eventually find out that the jungle boy swinging around the vines, Ug (Terry Scott) is in fact Lady Bagley's son Cecil grown up, and falling in love and learning English from the now happy June. Soon enough the explorers are captured by a tribe called the Noshas, who are cannibals and plan to eat them all, but they are "rescued" by another tribe, the all beautiful bikini wearing women Lubby Dubby. They are taken to meet the leader of the tribe, and the only man they know living amongst them, Tonka the Great aka the long missing Walter Bagley (Charles Hawtrey), and hearing the tribe plan for all the men his wife Evelyn demands to be part of the leadership. Their plan for them is to have all the men, i.e. Boosey, Tinkle and Chumley perform their jobs every day until death, and that is to mate with the women, of course at first they are up for this because they are all beautiful, well, not all. In the end, after almost mating at last with beautiful women everyone is saved by Upsidaisi and his men, Tinkle gets his Oozlum bird which somehow disappears when returning home, and Ug and June live in their own hut house in the suburbs. Also starring The Spy Who Loved Me's Valerie Leon as Leda and Reuben Martin as Gorilla. I should be said that I can't see Barbara Windsor fitting into this film even I wanted her, anyway, this blatantly spoofs the Tarzan and The Jungle Book style films we have come to enjoy, and jam packed with innuendos, double entendres, slapstick and dialogue jokes, and sexy girls in not much clothing this is certainly comedy you will not dislike. Worth watching!

I first saw this movie a few years ago and became a fan of the whole series. Most of my favorites are here and they all have great parts in it. Sid James plays the leader of an expedition in the jungle. The beautiful Jacki Piper makes her debut in the Carry On's playing June. She resembles the Jane character from the Tarzan movies. Bernard Bresselaw has a funny part as Sid's right hand man on the journey. Also we have Terry Scott in his finest role of the series as Ugh, the jungle boy. He is the Tarzan character who is a bumbler. Joan Sims, Kenneth Conner and Frankie Howerd round out the main cast. This movie is just likable. There are plenty of funny moments as the cast makes their way thru the jungle. My favorite parts include Jacki Piper and Terry Scott. They make a wonderful couple. He is instantly attracted to her and she to him. The last 20 minutes brings us the best part of the film. All but Jacki and Ugh are saved from and taken by a tribe of women. They want the men to mate with their tribe. Jacki gets away with Ugh and they she teaches him to speak English. She is now wearing jungle bikini and she looks perfect. They have some funny scenes where he keeps miss-pronouncing words so he can make love to her. The men are upset that must make love to ugly women. Finally they are about to make love to hot women and they are rescued by Ugh and Jacki. Valerie Leon plays the leader of the women's tribe and she has a very nice body as well. Sid James is also great as always, but Jacki Piper is my favorite here. Her jungle bikini makes the movie for me.

The Latest film in the Carry On series sees the gang(bangers) trespassing through the jungle for some reason. It's probably set in the Elizabethean times of exploration hundreds of years ago I don't know, I was never any good at history in school. I preferred English and Drama, telling stories, and writing stories, and then acting out those stories in front of my class to a chorus of boos. I may have been bullied quite a bit because of all this but it was all in good fun and I got my revenge later anyway. The Carry On films taught me everything I needed to know about girls when I was growing up- the older and uglier they were, the hornier they were, and the younger and prettier they were, the more prudish and alluring they were and you really have to play a lot of persistent games with them over the course of 90 minutes before you get your way. I have had much luck walking into to pubs and gyms (and even on day trips to the Jungle) and doing my best 'El" Sid James impression; smiling like a pervert, looking them up and down (paying particular attention to their chests), and then laughing. Sidworth gives a good example in this film:Bill Boosey: (sees a semi naked woman. Like Tarzan) 'Aaawwwwaaarrraagghhhaaargggaaarhhhhhh!. Ha ha heh haa.'I've received the odd slap but then I just say something like 'ooh, you saucy mare, come here till I give you a bit of your own medicine' and eventually they give in. Sometimes though a nearby heifer will notice and chase me around, offering to 'massage my aching parts' or 'rub away my painful juices'. In that case I do my best Kenny Williams impression, but then I get lots of attention from Kenny Williams' fans. It's tough being me.Best Scene: When the group are walking through the rain forest and spot a herd of giraffes. Prof. Inigo Tinkle: (To a giraffe- 'Mmmm, that's a big one!)

The whole film is great. Everyone looks happy to be doing it.Frankie Howerd is great as professor Ingio Tinkle. Sid is having a whale of a time. As is Scott, Piper Sims Bresslaw Hawtrey , Connor. The film is a marvel. The set is so convincing it could almost be a real jungle. The plot of the film is as follows: Ingio Tinkle is leading a party of explores through the jungle in search of the rare Oozlum bird. Lady Baggely is joining the group to search for her long lost baby boy, ( Terry Scott). Her servant June ( Jackie Piper) falls in love with her son jungle boy. I don't want to spoil to much of the film if you have not already seen it. Hawtrey is good but doesn't have as much screen time as the others. Kenneth Connor is good as Claude Chumley. Overall Fantastic 10/10.