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A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff—they all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
A group of Britons on a package holiday to the fictional island of Costa Plenti find their vacation turning into chaos. From incompetent tour guides to accidental involvement with local revolutionaries and a local beauty contest, the holidaymakers endure one mishap after another. The film satirizes the burgeoning package holiday industry of the 1970s.
Carry On Abroad was met with generally negative reviews from critics, though it was a commercial success at the box office, as was typical for the Carry On series. Audiences familiar with the franchise generally found it to be up to the usual standard of lowbrow, innuendo-laden humour, while critics often cited its predictable plot and reliance on tired gags.
Relies heavily on its established formula of innuendo and slapstick.
Features a familiar cast performing their usual comedic routines.
The plot offers little novelty, serving mainly as a framework for gags.
Google audience: Audience reception for Carry On Abroad is difficult to gauge from publicly available aggregated reviews. However, within the context of the Carry On series, it is generally seen as a typical entry that provides familiar comedic performances and innuendo-based humor.
The film was shot on location in Spain, doubling for the fictional Mediterranean island of Costa Plenti, and also at Pinewood Studios.
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So this time, our gang of double-entendre specialists head to the resort of "Elsbels" on the Costa somewhere for a long weekend. Of course the hotel isn't finished, and that's not the only thing that isn't. Though at times it is quite amusi...
Package Holiday Piffery. The 24th film in the Carry On series finds the cast partaking in a package holiday to Els Bels. Once arriving they find their hotel still under construction and nobody much likes the company they are in! This ...