Overrated and dumb comedy with a few funny moments.
Caddyshack (1980)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:29
Rotten:9
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Though unabashedly crude and juvenile, Caddyshack nevertheless scores with its classic slapstick, unforgettable characters, and endlessly quotable dialogue.
Runtime: 2 hrs 10 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: This hysterical farce, set against the backdrop of the typically hoity-toity Bushwood Country club, pits the caddies vs. the establishment with riotous results. Danny, a poor kid from the wrong... This hysterical farce, set against the backdrop of the typically hoity-toity Bushwood Country club, pits the caddies vs. the establishment with riotous results. Danny, a poor kid from the wrong side of the tracks, is struggling to make it as a caddy at Bushwood. Terrified of being a caddy for life, he is dying to win the Bushwood annual caddy scholarship and is willing to do whomever and whatever it takes. The caddies carouse, smoke, and curse their way around Bushwood, wrecking havoc on the uptight rules and regulations strictly adhered to by most of the members of the club. Chevy Chase stars as Ty Webb, a wealthy antiestablishment member of Bushwood who tries to convince Danny that there is more to life than playing by the rules. This wacky comedy also features an insanely delightful performance by Bill Murray, as the local groundskeeper who becomes obsessed with killing off the gophers who have infested the golf course, with bang-up results. When Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) comes to town he sets the country club--and Judge Smails, played by the fabulous Ted Knight--on end with his poor taste, bad humor, and big money. The final showdown between the snobs and the slobs is not to be missed. CADDYSHACK is one of the most-quoted comedies of all time, and with good reason. [More]
Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray
Starring: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, Michael O'Keefe, Sarah Holcomb, Scott Colomby, Cindy Morgan, Dan Resin, Brian Doyle Murray
Director: Harold Ramis
Director: Harold Ramis
Screenwriter: Brian Doyle Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Producer: Douglas Kenney, Jon Peters
Composer: Johnny Mandel
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Reviews for Caddyshack
If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.
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.
Caddyshack 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.
Still every bit as funny, and every bit as stupid, as it was twenty years ago.
A so-called classic 80's comedy featuring one of Bill Murray's most inspired comic creations.
The plot wanders around the golf course and involves a half-dozen elements, but if you simply dig the gopher, the caddy, and the Dangerfield, you're not going to be doing half bad.
A genial, idiotic '80s comedy in a golf club-setting with near-mythic resonance for those who watched it in adolescence.
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