Caddyshack (1980)
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Reviews Counted: 45
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 11
Though unabashedly crude and juvenile, Caddyshack nevertheless scores with its classic slapstick, unforgettable characters, and endlessly quotable dialogue.
Average Rating: 4/10
Critic Reviews: 5
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 4
Though unabashedly crude and juvenile, Caddyshack nevertheless scores with its classic slapstick, unforgettable characters, and endlessly quotable dialogue.
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The smash success Caddyshack became a prototype for countless other wacky T&A-tinged teen comedies of the early 1980s. At an exclusive country club for WASPish snobs, an ambitious young caddy (Michael O'Keefe) from an overpopulated home eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favor of the elitist Judge Smails (Ted Knight), then the caddy golf tournament which the good judge
Jul 25, 1980 Wide
Sep 26, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Chevy Chase
Ty Webb -
Rodney Dangerfield
Al Czervik -
Bill Murray
Carl Spackler -
Michael O'Keefe
Danny Noonan -
Ted Knight
Judge Smails -
Cindy Morgan
Lacey Underall -
Sarah Holcomb
Maggie O'Hooligan -
Scott Colomby
Tony D'Annunzio -
Dan Resin
Dr. Beeper -
Henry Wilcoxon
Bishop -
Elaine Aiken
Mrs. Noonan -
Albert Salmi
Noonan -
Fred Buch
Angry Husband -
Thomas A. Carlin
Sandy MacReedy -
Cordis Heard
Wally -
Brian McConnachie
Scott -
Hamilton Mitchell
Motormouth -
Ann Ryerson
Grace -
Frank Schuller
Charlie the Cook -
Brian Doyle-Murray
Lou Loomis -
Bruce McLaughlin
Old Crony -
Jackie Davis
Smoke -
Mel Pape
Butler -
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Minerva Scelza
Joey D'Nunzio -
John F. Barmon Jr.
Spaulding Smails
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All Critics (45) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (11) | DVD (14)
The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style (including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce.
This vaguely likable, too-tame comedy falls short of the mark.
Top CriticIf you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.
Top CriticCaddyshack never finds a consistent comic note of its own, but it plays host to all sorts of approaches from its stars, who sometimes hardly seem to be occupying the same movie.
A pleasantly loose-limbed sort of movie with some comic moments, most of them belonging to Mr. Dangerfield.
There's still a lot of fun in this movie, and most of that comes from the heartfelt performances from the cast.
A funny slapstick comedy, starring Billy Murray in top form
Classic '80s comedy; not for kids.
Never mind the fact that the plot regularly goes off track and into the rough, Caddyshack offers laughs a plenty.
dependant almost entirely--when it's not being angry and cynical--on arrogance and smugness.
Long since considered a comedy landmark, Caddyshack returns again to DVD with its generous dose of comedic lunacy. To be more frank: "Hey everybody! We're all gonna get laid!"
Given the short shelf life of many rude 'n' crude Hollywood comedies, it's amazing how well Caddyshack stands up after all these years.
Despite being ungainly, Caddyshack is the kind of comedy you can pan for gold in... [Blu-ray]
Director Harold Ramis doesn't help matters through his lethargic staging of several major slapstick sequences.
...the dumb film everyone loves, now on high-definition Blu-ray disc. (Blu-ray Edition)
No matter how bad practically everybody thinks it is, practically everybody likes it.
Has attained cult comedy status over last 25 years...due to Chase, Dangerfield, Murray set pieces.
Still every bit as funny, and every bit as stupid, as it was twenty years ago.
A slapstick comedy featuring a host of great clowns.
A crude comedy.
Audience Reviews for Caddyshack
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- Carl Spackler: Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
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- Bishop: Rat farts!
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- Carl Spackler: Big hitter, the Lama.
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- Ty Webb: You take drugs, Danny?
- Danny Noonan: Every day.
- Ty Webb: Good.
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- Spaulding Smails: I want a hamburger. No, a cheeseburger. I want a hotdog. I want a milkshake.
- Judge Smails: [judge hits Spaulding in the back of his head] You'll get nothing and like it!
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- Carl Spackler: A former greenskeeper, about to become the Masters champion...
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