Carry On Loving (Special Edition) [DVD]

Product Description If you decide to look for romance, don’t expect to find any joy at the Wedded Bliss Agency. If you’re looking for laughs on the other hand, this should be your first port of call. Sid James and Hattie Jacques star as Sid and Sophie Bliss, the agency proprietors who are living a lie: they’re not married! With Kenneth Williams, Joan Sims and Terry Scott as clients, the computer certainly matches strange bedfellows and builds to one of the funniest slapstick climaxes of the series. Carry On Loving is just one thing on top of another! Amazon.co.uk Review Setting a Carry On film in a marriage bureau has a certain self-serving obviousness, so it's hardly surprising that Carry On Loving milks the idea for all it's worth. The Wedded Bliss Agency is of course a pretty dubious outfit, being run by Sid (James) and Sophie Bliss (Hattie Jacques), who together are the worst possible example for both marriage and their own profession: they constantly snipe at each other, they aren't actually married and their sophisticated computer matching system is in fact a complete fake. The remainder of the team are mostly cast as hapless clients, with predictable but often very funny situations arising from the various mismatches engineered by the agency, such as the inevitable misunderstanding over one client's interest in modelling. Yes, the humour is about as subtle as a flatulent elephant, but you can't help entering into the spirit of the thing. If there's an outstanding performance it has to be that of Imogen Hassall, who handles her transformation from round-shouldered frump to well-bred love goddess with considerable expertise and a genuine sense of fun. --Roger Thomas