Please also read the hilarious review from Steve Franciscus also in this section. It is funnier than the whole BUSES trilogy.
HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES is excruciating. As a Hammer Production it is appropriate that they just kept making horror films but changed costumes to suit the TV sit com source of this dire drivel release as a feature film. HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES is really the end of the line for this cringe worthy working class pantomime that seems to have taken up the CARRY ON baton as that series ran out of customers. To say that BUSES is vile, misogynistic, crass and visually pale is a complete understatement. Seeing it on daytime telly at home reminded me of the scene in TOMMY when Ann Margaret's TV spewed baked beans all across her living room.
I am actually struggling for words to express the sheer genuine horror of every aspect... and the worst crime of this production is the cretinous and cruel treatment of Olive, whose constant humiliation and degradation is so shameful as to be disturbing. Then there's Jack's teeth.
Exactly who this was aimed at is also a worry about 70s Britain, as clearly there was enough factory workers for this to have a market. The Brit 'dirty old man' standard lecherously groping dolly-birds in their 20s is just one of the jaw-dropper themes of this terrible last gasp of tawdry UK conveyor-belt film making.
I read on this site that there is an ON THE BUSES fan club, still operating. I can't mentally process that information. It just isn't possible that could exist. Imagine their Christmas party after a few drinks....
HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES is excruciating. As a Hammer Production it is appropriate that they just kept making horror films but changed costumes to suit the TV sit com source of this dire drivel release as a feature film. HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES is really the end of the line for this cringe worthy working class pantomime that seems to have taken up the CARRY ON baton as that series ran out of customers. To say that BUSES is vile, misogynistic, crass and visually pale is a complete understatement. Seeing it on daytime telly at home reminded me of the scene in TOMMY when Ann Margaret's TV spewed baked beans all across her living room.
I am actually struggling for words to express the sheer genuine horror of every aspect... and the worst crime of this production is the cretinous and cruel treatment of Olive, whose constant humiliation and degradation is so shameful as to be disturbing. Then there's Jack's teeth.
Exactly who this was aimed at is also a worry about 70s Britain, as clearly there was enough factory workers for this to have a market. The Brit 'dirty old man' standard lecherously groping dolly-birds in their 20s is just one of the jaw-dropper themes of this terrible last gasp of tawdry UK conveyor-belt film making.
I read on this site that there is an ON THE BUSES fan club, still operating. I can't mentally process that information. It just isn't possible that could exist. Imagine their Christmas party after a few drinks....