Caddyshack (1980)

• Year: 1980
• Released: 25 Jul 1980
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 1 nomination
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Caddyshack
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/caddyshack
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Sport
• Runtime: 98 min
• Writer: Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
• Director: Harold Ramis
• Cast: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray
• Keywords: sports, coming of age, explosion, competition, class differences,

	7.2/10
	48/100
	73% – Critics
	87% – Audience

Caddyshack Storyline

Danny Noonan is a young caddy at Bushwood Country Club who has no idea about where his future will lead. His best chance at getting his life on track is to earn a caddy scholarship from Judge Elihu Smails, the owner of the Country Club. Al Czervik is a rude, and overly eccentric millionaire who has interests in purchasing Bushwood. Judge Smails shows a quick disliking towards Al and soon there is a conflict between the Judge and Al, the Judge and Danny, and even between the Judge and Ty Webb the charming golfer who is slowly helping Danny figure out his real goals. On the outside of this is Carl Spackler the Golf Course Grounds keeper, who’s goal is eliminate a rampaging gopher who is chewing up holes throughout the golf course.

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worth seeing for just a few funny parts

As I sit here thinking about this movie, I am realizing that this is one of the few comedies I wouldn’t mind if it were heavily edited first. In other words, if all the funny moments (i.e., all the stuff with Rodney Dangerfield) were shown and the rest of the film pitched in the trash, I DON’T think that would be so bad. That’s because despite it’s achieving “cult status”, this isn’t all that good a film–with sloppy direction, an annoying performance by Bill Murray (who is capable of so much better), a worthless story about some teenagers (and I HATE most teenager movies from the 70s and 80s) and a rather wooden performance by Chevy Chase. Hmmm,…now that I think about it, apart from Rodney Dangerfield and, perhaps the cute groundhog, there isn’t a whole lot I loved about the film. A sub-par film saved by genuinely funny dialog between Dangerfield and Ted Knight.

Heavy duty humor

Golf and those who play it becomes the subject of some heavy duty humor in Caddyshack. Some of the funniest folks in the last half of the last century are involved with Caddyshack.

With many little subplots going the main plot involves the rivalry between the head of the club Ted Knight who is also a judge and Rodney Dangerfield who is a filthy rich and brash visitor. Dangerfield is his usually cheerful and obnoxious character, but he presses Knight’s buttons. Some of the funniest moments of the film is Knight reacting to Dangerfield.

Chevy Chase is an interesting fellow himself, a rather iconoclastic character who doesn’t even keep score as he explains his philosophy of life to young Michael O’Keefe who is one of the caddies just trying to pick up some extra dollars and suck up to the rich who are regulars at the club.

Knight reminds me of the character of the father of the prospective bride whom Auntie Mame was desperately trying to keep nephew Patrick from marrying. Willard Waterman in Auntie Mame was not on his home ground and Rosalind Russell capitalizes on that. You see Knight on his home turf (no pun intended) but it yields him no advantage as Dangerfield just shows him up over and over.

We cannot forget Bill Murray who is an iconoclastic character in his own right. He’s one of the groundskeepers and has been assigned the task of ridding the world of gopher who has taken residence at the country club and leaving inconvenient holes in the ground. It’s a battle of wits and guess who comes out on top?

Henry Wilcoxon plays a Catholic bishop who likes to golf. He isn’t exactly Father O’Malley moved up in the ranks. Wilcoxon is best known for all the Cecil B. DeMille films he did and his final scene has a DeMille like quality.

With the gopher character Caddyshack expertly blends animation with the live players. Big kudos go out to the animators for the gopher.

Don’t expect any sophistication, but Caddyshack will give you lots of belly laughs with many to spare

Above average comedy of its era

I find the po-faced seriousness with which golfers take their sport to be rather funny, so this lampoon of the whole golf industry is a delight to watch. It’s a bit of a madcap character piece with lots of offbeat stars interacting and getting involved with one another, and at some moments it’s similar to the surreal highlights of AIRPLANE, although it also has that ‘frat house party’ style atmosphere popular from the early ’80s.

What I particularly enjoy about CADDYSHACK is that there’s no single star. Chevy Chase pops up here and there to deliver some delightful non-sequiters, and Bill Murray steals every scene he’s in playing the slow-witted groundsman. My favourite star of all, though, is Rodner Dangerfield, who ably mixes stand-up humour with acting and zings off the screen for all of his five or six moments.

CADDYSHACK isn’t an entirely successful production, and some elements are rather silly; that stupid gopher, for example, which looks like it belongs in a kid’s film. But it’s affectionate, it has plenty going on, and Harold Ramis does a very good job of holding it all together as director. The JAWS spoof is a definite highlight.