What a carry on
Vinnie Jones and Shane Ritchie are to star in in a new Carry On film, the first since the disastrous Carry on Columbus was released in 1992.
Carry On London focuses on a limousine company - Lenny’s Limos - which takes celebrities to a parody of the Oscars ceremony known as the Herberts.
This is a very bad idea indeed. The Carry On films were - and still are - very popular, but they are also very much a product of their time. I do still enjoy the older films in this series, but it’s probably true to say that much of their appeal comes down to nostalgia. And trying to recapture this nostalgia by trading on such a well known series - with all of the expectations that that generates - is not only fraught with danger, but doomed to failure.
Sunday 21 May 2006 | Paul | New and Upcoming Films
