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Yes, this one does hold up, perhaps because the action centers on the almost surreal (for a comedy) subject of golf, a topic that had not perhaps been so successfully spoofed since Eddie Cantor starred in "Kid Boots" (am I getting that one right?).

In the comedy contest between Murray, Chase, and Dangerfield, let me just say that Chase does not win. Dangerfield is at his best, delivering his classic lines ("this meat's so tough you can see where the jockey was riding it") with ultimate panache and actually playing his crazy character (reminiscent of Peter Sellars in "The Party") to the hilt. Murray is really the show-stopper, though, muttering his lines to give them emphasis (?) and racing around the course with what appears to be real mania.

A lot of the jokes fall flat, but when this movie is on, it's so on, that you can't help but call it a classic.

The film has some great moments and is possibly one of the most ad-libbed pictures of all time. Chevy Chase, in one of his first film roles, gives us a taste of his great comic turn in 'Fletch'(1985) with the off-beat portrayal of club pro Tye Webb. Chase is really untouchable when it comes to playing funny-straight characters. Bill Murray is hilarious as grounds keeper Carl Spackler. Murray has improvised just about all of his dialogue and it really is superb. His 'Cinderella Story' scene, followed by caddying for the Bishop in the thunder storm is one of the funniest things i've seen on screen.

Rodney Dangerfield is somewhat hit and miss. All of his dialogue is quick fire one-liners so the chances are that when he does crack a funny joke you'll be so busy laughing that you'll miss the next one. The funniest one in my book is his retort to caddy Tony D'Annunzio: 'Hey kid, when are you due back in boy's town?' For me Ted Knight steals the picture as Judge Smails. He is such an energetic over the top character. His constant put downs of grandson Spallding , 'You'll get nothing and like it!', and random acts of frustrated violence supplied constant entertainment.

The question is...why didn't the film just focus completely on these guys? Instead it kept on harping back to Danny Noonan. Michael O'Keefe is a fine actor but he was always going to struggle in a comedy which featured the above cast members and characters. Another handicap is that in a comedy he gets few comedic lines. His character's relationship with his girlfriend Maggie, played inexplicably with a terrible Irish accent, and with his own family are highly under developed. Cindy Morgan is also given an extremely under written character who's motives are never explained and who randomly comes in and out of the film. Harold Ramis's direction is at times sloppy and echoes his then inexperience. He did go on to do 'Groundhog Day'(1993) though so he obviously learned his lessons.

To sum up this is a good film to get you in the mood for the summer. Lots of beautiful weather covering some splendid golf course scenery. There are plenty of likable characters and some very funny set pieces. Its also interesting to see the launch pad for some of the 80s biggest comedic stars. But be warned if you don't like Chase, Murray or Dangerfield then don't waste your time on this. Along with Knight, the film really is their show. For further evidence to support the final sentence just look at the poster.

Following the success of "National Lampoon's Animal House" a couple of years earlier Harold Ramis and Doug Kenney struck comedy gold a second time with this classic that once again pitted the slobs against the snobs.

The cast is dynamite. Chevy Chase was at the top of his game as zen golfer Ty Webb, Bill Murray was equally memorable as demented assistant greens-keeper Carl Spackler, the one and only Rodney Dangerfield basically played himself with predictably hilarious results and rounding it out was Ted Knight, who effortlessly oozed smarm.

The storyline is rambling but that doesn't matter much. It's the jokes and the interplay between the actors that fuels the movie. It was no surprise to learn that there was a lot of improvisation going on on the set. The sole scene shared by Chevy Chase & Bill Murray is sheer genius through and through. Still, a more coherent story would have benefited the film.

There is one thing I'm not crazy about, though, and that is the music. 'Songs by Kenny Loggins' doesn't have the same ring today as it did about thirty years ago. That being said, "I'm Alright" isn't bad. I do wish, however, that the filmmakers had gotten Elmer Bernstein to handle the music like he did for "Animal House".

In the end, I give the all-around edge to the precursor, "Animal House", but this one is a worthy successor. Too bad Doug Kenney didn't live to see the end of the year or we might have seen more comedies of this caliber during the '80s.

When you watch Caddyshack, you think to yourself that this is rather lowbrow. Then you disregard that part of your brain and settle down for some lowbrow fun. Chevy Chase has top billing, and he's very good. He's very calm, very funny, and quick witted. But the ones who nearly steal the show are Ted Knight and Bill Murray. Ted Knight and Rodney Dangerfield play off each other nicely. Knight gets flustered and starts stammering, and you can see every vein on his neck! Dangerfield counters with a crack at Knight's expense and it gets better from there. Bill Murray is great as Carl, the groundskeeper with a vendetta against that gopher. He mumbles things to himself, watches old ladies play golf and develops his own grass that can be smoked after playing golf on it. And always remember Ty Webb's words of wisdom: "A flute with no holes is not a flute, and a donut with no holes is a danish."

`National Lampoon's Animal House' may have been one of the first comedies to evolve from the `Saturday Night Live' generation, but it could be argued that `Caddyshack,' directed by Harold Ramis-- and which features two SNL alumni, Chevy Chase and Bill Murray-- actually spawned the entire `SNL genre,' of films, because this is the one that seemed to lock in that formulaic irreverence toward all things, of which they are so indicative. The story here revolves around a young man named Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe), a caddy at the upscale Bushwood Country Club, who is bucking for a caddy scholarship to get him into college. Danny figures that the best shot he has at it is to volunteer for the assignment none of the other caddies want-- to caddy for the up-tight Judge Smails (Ted Knight), one of the executive directors of Bushwood, and `kiss up' a bit. Smails responds by letting Danny mow his lawn and attend a christening ceremony for his new yacht. But Danny is not one to be deterred, even when the good Judge tells him `The world needs ditch diggers, too.' He just goes on, keeping his eyes and his options open.

And it isn't long before Danny gets involved with Ty Webb (Chase), an independently wealthy goof-ball with a Zen/Chaplin philosophy of life, whose father was one of Judge Smails' partners in Bushwood. So Danny takes some advice from Ty while caddying for him; advice which just may ultimately have an effect on whether or not he gets his scholarship. Or maybe not. Words of wisdom like `Be the Ball,' and `A donut with no hole is a danish,' may not be what he needs to put him on the fast track to success. But then again, you never know; it's that kind of movie. And there's no getting around it, this is funny stuff.

The humor in this movie runs the gamut from broad to subtle, with at least two sight gags thrown in that identify it as belonging to the genre it helped create. At the time of it's theatrical release, in 1980, it was fairly on the cutting edge of comedy; by today's standards, though, it doesn't seem nearly as irreverent, especially given the digressive trend in the genre lately, which has spewed forth such fare as `Freddy Got Fingered,' and `Road Trip.' Then again, this one had Harold Ramis behind the camera, and Ramis has an acute sense of comedic timing, he knows what works, and he made the most of the basic screenplay (by Ramis, Brian Doyle-Murray and Douglas Kenney) and the terrific cast of comedians with which he had to work, all of whom fit so well into the pattern and fabric of this particular picture.

Rarely does a comedy (or any film for that matter) have so many actors who fit their characters so perfectly as in this film, beginning with Chevy Chase, who embodies the slightly skewed and off-center Ty Webb so well it's almost frightening. Webb is a guy who veritably floats through life in a perpetual Zen-like state of distraction, and it makes you realize that there probably really are characters like this walking around in the real world. But if the existence of a Ty Webb type is only highly probable, there's no doubt whatsoever about the fact that there are guys like Al Czervik amongst us.

Rodney Dangerfield plays Czervik, the obnoxious, fun-loving, high-rolling land developer with a specially made golf club and an eye on Bushwood. In Czervik, Dangerfield creates a character who is outrageous, droll, lacks any taste whatsoever, and is entirely hilarious. It is, without question, the best character and performance of Dangerfield's cinematic career, and -- like Chase-- it's almost scary the way he fits into the character so naturally and completely.

The real heart of this movie, however, is Bill Murray, who turns in what just may be the definitive Murray performance with his character, Carl Spackler, the Assistant Greenskeeper at Bushwood. Murray brings Carl, the socially and intellectually challenged man-with-a-plan, to life with subtle nuance and a flare of comedic genius. A lot of what he did in this film was improvised, including much of his two most memorable and hilarious scenes, one in which he's describing his encounter with the Dalai Lama, and the other being his soliloquy of the `Cinderella Boy' on the course at Atlanta. This is truly inspired, funny stuff, and it proves what can be done without resorting to banal vulgarity or crudeness (not that this film is entirely devoid of it, but at least it's tempered here somewhat-- not so overt and in-your-face like you'll often find in some of the more recent offerings of the genre). And there's a harmless shiftiness about Carl, who is about as deep as a pan pizza, and Murray plays it all beautifully.

O'Keefe gives a solid performance, as well, but he's basically the straight man here, the set-up guy for one funny situation after another. And he does it quite nicely.

Also giving memorable performances are Ted Knight, as the rigid, conservative Judge, and Brian Doyle-Murray as Lou Loomis, who oversees the caddies at Bushwood.

The supporting cast includes Sarah Holcomb (Maggie), Scott Colomby (Tony), Cindy Morgan (Lacey Underall), Dan Resin (Dr. Beeper), Henry Wilcoxon (The Bishop), Albert Salmi (Mr. Noonan), John F. Barmon Jr. (Spaulding Smails) and Lois Kibbee (Mrs. Smails). With this film, Ramis and company honed the formula for comedy that incorporated pop culture and contemporary sensibilities into it like never before. And `Caddyshack' is an example of it in it's purest form; you'll have to look long and hard to find anything out of this same mold today that can come close to the prototype. It's one of those movies that gets even better with age-- and funnier, too. It's the magic of the movies. I rate this one 10/10.

I saw Caddyshack on Bravo's 100 Funniest Movies, and it was really up there in the top three. But when I asked my mom if she saw it, she said it was highly over rated, then I asked my movie buddy if she saw it, she also said that she found it over rated. But I decided to go ahead and check it out myself, just see if I would like it or not. I rented it and watched the movie last night, while I do agree that it is slightly over rated, I still thought that this was a funny comedy. For me, Rodney definitely brought life to the movie, without him, I think the movie would have just been average. I know some people find him annoying, but he was just so funny in this film, I loved his out fits and crazy love for life was just so great. Also Bill Murray, I don't see too many movies where he is more funny than obnoxious, but he and the gopher was just classic. Golfing is becoming the funniest sport ever.

Danny and his co-workers are caddy's, they have a blast when they're on break. But Danny wants a life outside his family and city, so he is going for a scholarship where if he's a great caddy, he could win it. So he starts getting in with the big time golfers. He's slowly getting into their good graces. But he also meets the more lively golfers, who are less snobby and actually enjoy life. But they decide that the older and more stuffy golfers need to get their butts kicked and should leave the course, they're ready to party down with the sport.

Caddyshack is really funny at times, like I said, I think the story that got me most was the battle between Bill Murray and the gopher, it was so stupid that it just went from dumb to funny. The gopher did look very fake and corny, but it's all good. I would recommend Caddyshack if you are looking for a few laughs, I did enjoy it. When it comes to top comedies, I'm still debating if this should've made the top three on Bravo's top funniest movies, but it's all good, it's other people's opinions. Just check it out for yourself and try not to think of those who over blow how funny it is.

7/10

Caddyshack (1980) is a movie in my DVD collection that I recently rewatched on HBOMAX. The storyline involves a young man about to graduate from high school who doesn't know what he wants to do when he grows up. He works at a golf course and looks for advice from the regular members. Meanwhile a rivalry is developing between a new member of the golf club and a prideful legacy member. The kid is about to be caught in the middle of the rivalry.

This movie is directed by Harold Ramis (National Lampoon's Vacation) in his directorial debut and stars Chevy Chase (Three Amigos), Rodney Dangerfield (Back to School), Bill Murray (Stripes), Ted Knight (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) and Brian Doyle-Murray (National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation).

This is easily the greatest golf movie ever created. It contains a fun storyline, unique characters and randomly fun circumstances. The movie is perfectly cast and Murray, Chase and Dangerfield are brilliant. Every scene with the gopher and Murray is legendary and Chase's dry humor is perfect. The soundtrack is also magnificent.

Overall this is a classic 80s gem in every way - look, feel, cast and content. There's nothing to not like about this picture. I would score this a 10/10 and strongly recommend it.

Well, well, well, finally the time has come and I've watched this so acclaimed comedy. First of all I consider myself a Bill Murray fan, I've enjoyed somewhat Chavy Chase and Roger Dangerfield's work, so the fact I had never watched Caddyshack until now was becoming a sense of guilt. Damn, I had read reviews saying this is one of the best comedies of the eighties. So, after watching Caddyshack I only could shake my head and tried to understand how this can be one of the funniest movies ever. I can't make heads or tails of this film, I mean, it feels like it was made of different sketches with no solid or unified script,and full of wasted actors (Bill Murray is like useless) or plain bad acting (Chavy Chase), gratuitous nudity (ok, eighties comedy I know) and a terrible pacing. Nonetheless I can't say this is the worst movie I've ever seen, it's enjoyable till certain point, but in no way this is one of the best comedies around.

Crudeness doesn't come much more, well, crude, than 1980's sublime "Caddyshack". In fact, this crazy quilt takes the slob groundwork laid by "National Lampoon's Animal House" and one-ups that collegiate comedy classic by having a carelessly mean, anarchic spirit a mile wide and a foot deep.

It's little surprise that writer/director Harold Ramis and co-writer Douglas Kenney were also scribes on that 1978 John Belushi hit. As "Caddyshack" shows, the classic us-versus-them scat-humor template is alive and well.

But this is not just a crass comedy, it's a HAPPILY crass comedy, that does just about whatever it wants as it casually wanders through it's 90-odd minutes. The DNA of "Caddyshack" resides somewhere in the cinematic in-between world of the aforementioned "Animal House" and a Three Stooges or W.C. Fields picture. There's a giddiness to its nose-thumbing, and a general pleasure in its coarse eagerness to offend.

The screenplay forms a functional spine for what actually amounts to a comedy collision course of witty asides, broad physical comedy, dirty jokes, varied comedic styles and big explosions.

But is there really a screenplay here? The film has such a loose and free-wheeling timbre to it that it would be hard not to fault the viewer in thinking that the film was largely improvised, or at least rewritten by committee on set, scene by scene.

This film was widely *rumoured* to be "under the influence" during shooting, but whatever the cast and crew were "using" seemed to work very much in favor of movie, as the flick turned out to be editorially messy and open-structured, yet well-paced and coherent enough to embrace the variety of comedic opinions squeezed into the picture. This is what you get - a smörgåsbord of laughs. You get a Chevy Chase doing his ironic bit, you have one Bill Murray essaying a bizarre-o mental case, good old Ted Knight going into slow-burn histrionics every scene, and Rodney Dangerfield stealing every scene with large chunks of his stand-up act. This shouldn't work, this mix - but it does. Very well.

Again, the looseness of the pace and tone of the film forgive some of the storytelling framework featuring young go-getter Michael O'Keefe's attempt to get a college scholarship during one crazy summer caddying for Bushwood Country Club's weirdest members. Instead, Ramis, Kenney and (Bill's brother) Brian Doyle Murray set each of these comedians up with sketch-like scenarios for some of their finest and funniest work.

The movie is mean in all the right places - It's the snobs against the slobs, as the advertising says. "Caddyshack" takes barbed pot-shots at the class system, at sex, at religion, at bodily functions. No joke is too risqué, no candy bar too gross to eat from the bottom of a empty pool. It has lots of swearing, nudity for nudity's sake, and insults for the pompous and pathetic. Even through its R-rated mean-spiritedness, it's hard to truly be turned off of the film's antagonistic spirit - it earns it's laughs because it's breathlessly paced and damned funny. This is the thematic mold that the Farrellys and Adam Sandler rarely get right.

"Caddyshack" is endlessly quotable, and surely if you sat around with a few friends anytime in the last 25 years, you could probably spend a good hour reciting lines and scenes that still hold all their glorious funny these many years later.

The movie's best scene? My award goes to the "Night Putting" sequence where Chevy Chase's Ty Webb and Bill Murray Carl the Greenskeeper finally meet up when Chase fires a Titleist through the window of Murray's lean-to shed-slash-residence. This never fails to get big laughs, and it's a real meeting of the minds. A great sequence for the Comedy Hall of Fame, I'd say.

Kenny Loggins' catchy songs ("I'm Alright" anyone?) and the jazzy Johnny Mandel (!) orchestral score add a unexpectedly lovely sheen that spit-shines the crudity of subject and filmmaker's style. They're nice touches.

You can put "Caddyshack" next to "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane" - not just in the "C" section of your local video store, but as in "Classic". Comedies don't come much funnier than this.

BTW - skip "Caddyshack II". Everything that this one is, that one isn't.

Caddyshack has some uniquely funny moments. Carl's (Bill Murray) war with the gopher is hilarious. The gopher is cheaply made, not even close to taking advantage of the special effects available at the time, but, even that seems to add to his charm.

Rodney Dangerfield has one of his best performances in this film. I don't particularly enjoy his brand of humor, but, he fit in perfectly with the rest of the cast.

It is a campy, goofy, sometimes vulgar movie, but that is what was intended. I have fond memories of this movie from when I was younger, and it seems to get better with each viewing.

The sequel was made 8 years later. Unfortunately, it didn't even begin to live up to the standards of the first. Here are my suggestions for other films you may enjoy from this genre and time frame: Stripes, One Crazy Summer, and Animal House.

I highly recommend this movie, as well as the others listed.

Parental caution: Nudity, vulgar humor, and sexual references.

So now you've got that going for you, which is nice.

Inspired by Brian Doyle-Murray's experiences as a caddy in his youth, this wild, anarchic film is about more than just golf. Without a doubt, it's my favorite comedy, and might even be one of the greatest movies of all time. There is not a single scene without comedic chaos.

Director Harold Ramis is barely able to contain the insanity. There is honestly so much in Caddyshack, there's enough for ten movies, hardly surprising since the first draft of the screenplay was 199 pages long while the first cut of the film run for 310 minutes. I imagine that there's enough cut out to make whole new Caddyshack movies. There are about five different plots developing at once throughout the movie, the funniest of which is Carl Spackler's (having been licensed to kill by the 'Government of the United Nations') attempts to assassinate a rogue gopher tearing up the golf course.

Each and every actor battles with each other, and it's hard to nail down exactly who runs away with the movie, but if I absolutely HAD to choose, I'd say that Rodney Dangerfield's sleazy, slobbish, overly-friendly, and gratuitously tipping character is the most wonderful thing about it. He is the perfect foil for Judge Smails (an utterly perfectly-cast Ted Knight), a pompous, bad-tempered, self-important hypocrite who wants to reserve the pretentious Bushwood Country Club for snobs and gentlemen (despite being far from a gentleman himself).

If you like comedy quotes, Caddyshack is a goldmine. There are hundreds, literally hundreds, of lines worthy of repeating in real life. You could literally get by, from cradle to the grave, just quoting Caddyshack, and it would bring you nothing but pure happiness and good fortune.

... or "golf sticks and comedians' shticks" ... or "great balls of fur" (so many titles I could use for that one)

I guess I was more enthused by the perspective of discovering Harold Ramis' classic "Caddyshack" the first time than the second. It was 2010 and back then I was an AFI (American Film Institute) buff and watching a film listed in the Top 100 most classic quotes, Top 100 comedies and Top 10 sport films made me drool of crazed anticipation. I expected a goofball comedy full of wit and satire, a stellar cast and just laughs and laughs. That was 12 years ago and I do remember I was disappointed. I didn't find it bad at all but the ratio of jokes-that-worked and jokes-that-didn't left me perplex. Sure, there were some good moments, some hilarious ones, but the film relied so much on comedians doing what they do best that it failed to tie their performances together through a good story. Bill Murray was funny in every single scene he was but even his shtick got me tired.

It took me 12 years to forget it enough and make the second viewing as fresh as the first. I don't think I liked it any better but I'm milder in my criticism. I appreciate Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) and his low-key hedonistic approach to life and the way he swings back and forth between confidence and the kind of embarrassment he tries to hide behind a sort of dandy dilettante charm. His motto is "be the ball", he's so good at it we might not notice he can be a hole... a very specific one. I also liked the way the film served as a platform for Rodney Dangerfield playing a successful condo estate nouveau riche, and giving a taste of his biting wit to the snobbish Wasps of the Country Club. In that cocktail of anarchical farce that drained its inspiration from "Animal House" and the National lampoon's comedies, Dangerfield was both the olive and the rainbow-colored umbrella. On that level, the comedian 'got my respect'.

I am not sure I liked Ted Knight in his over-the-top approach to his character as the Judge but I admire the way he stuck to his guts in what was a thankless role in the same vein than Sally Kellerman's part in "MASH". It was just as if the man was so used to be the butt-joke of childish pranks it affected his own maturity. He had it coming a little and I guess his 'evilness' was there to hide a certain insecurity too. Imagine if you were surrounded by so many younger or fuller of life people, would you also keep shielded behind your social status? In a green, everyone is equal in the club as long as you can handle it. Speaking of which, I liked Michael O'Keefe as the underdog unsung hero Ted Noonan, a guy setting his ambitions a little high, not indulging to infantile nuisance and getting the girl at the end and all the acclaim. He was predictable but he didn't overplay it. Still, no disrespect to him, any young good-looking six-footer could have made it.

One word, in fact one paragraph about Bill Murray and his personal settle with the gopher, I liked that sort of roadrunner's running joke that was so preposterous and cartoonish that it actually did something I didn't expect: it gave the film a soul, something to hook your memory on, it was the salt of the margarita so to speak. The gopher was cute and charming and Murray played Carl the gardener as a man who could truly be outsmarted by a little ball of furry. The jokes get a little tiresome but well, even the least inspired moments from Murray will get you a smile, Murray can almost get away with everything. I was also pleasantly surprised by his brother Bryan Doyle Murray as the caddies' manager as much as I was mind-blown by his resemblance to his brother. It didn't last.

Now I liked many things about "Caddyshack", but how about the big picture?

All comedians are good. Individually, each one could have been a solid pro or antagonist of the film. But somehow the film never finds a proper storyline to get them together. And I know that wasn't the point, the point was to make a golf film, a "slobs vs. Snobs" where humor would be the only law to abide by. I know the film was made under the euphoric effect of improvisation (among many other 'things') and so that it achieved a certain reputation without much of a plot is an achievement by itself. But for me, it has certainly to do with the gallery of stars and their madcap spirit. "Caddyshack" is basically an overlong SNL sketch or a compacted sitcom series.

There are some really inspired moments though: the chocolate "Jaws"ing its way in the swimming pool, the 'Cinderella story' monologue but even more the scene that followed with the old man playing in the rain that was bizarrely moving and inspiring, and Dangerfield dancing and finally giving an explanation to the ending of that Simpsons episode where he was a guest. Sometimes it doesn't take more than that.

Oh, and I'm glad the film didn't overplay its obvious naughtiness, it did indulge to some gratuitous nudity, nothing surprising for a film clearly aiming a male audience and we, men, are more inclined to immaturity. But I would give it an extra-point because at least it spared us a peeping shower scene.

The film is immature, it's an underachiever but it has talented comedians and if not one of the best films about golf, it's certainly one of the most famous. A few handicaps but not bad a legacy.

CADDYSHACK is yet another movie that everyone else but me has seen until now (apparently). It's directed by Harold Ramis and features Bill Murray and Chevy Chase in their prime, along with Rodney Dangerfield. Why wouldn't it be good? Well, if 90 minutes of improvisation with little to no plot is your idea of good comedy (and considering comedies these days, there are a lot of people who feel that way), then you'll feel right at home. For me, there were a number of individually funny bits from each of the main cast members, but the unfocused, episodic nature of the story kept me from being invested too much in the goings-on at this snooty country club. The best running gag is one that everyone is probably familiar with: Bill Murray and the gopher. But it was only funny in and of itself, feeling mostly tangential to the story (or to justify Bill Murray's presence). There was the potential to do a satire on class conflict, but Rodney Dangerfield threw a wrench in that (most of his bits didn't work for me at all). Chevy Chase got to do some of his shtick as well, but overall it felt like all the cast members were just trying to show each other up instead of being a real ensemble cast. I will say that the soundtrack, heavily featuring Kenny Loggins, was quite good though. Ultimately, I did laugh a handful of times but the script and its execution left a lot to be desired.

CADDYSHACK could very well be the ultimate comedy.

The ultra-crass zillionaire (Rodney Dangerfield) is the perfect foil for the stiff, humorless, snobby Judge (Ted Knight). The sneaky, animatronic gopher is the perfect nemesis for the hopelessly inept, shell-shocked Assistant greenskeeper (Bill Murray).

The central theme of class warfare is represented by the working class caddies set against the backdrop of the exclusive golf course / club and its highbrow members. Young Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) is vying for a college scholarship, and taking useless, pseudo-spiritual counsel from golf pro, Ty Webb (Chevy Chase). Don't worry, none of it is taken the least bit seriously. At all.

Memorable scenes abound, including the "Water Ballet" and "Baby Ruth bar incident" scenes at the pool. Of course, any scenes with Dangerfield, Knight, Murray, or Chase are hilarious classics!

Director Harold Ramis caught comic lightning in a bottle here! A comedic masterpiece from beginning to -explosive- end!

CADDYSHACK is on a very short list of movies that I will drop everything to watch!...

I can honestly say with an adult rewatch that I didn't like this as much as I did when I was a kid. Even so, for comedy Caddy shack is an important movie with the comic toure de force of Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray at the beginning stages of their film careers, as well as the directorial debut of Harold Ramis. With all these major players, that is a good enough reason to be so highly regarded. I do think that as a whole the movie is funny and making this was a 3 month long constant party for the cast and crew. A lot of the jokes and humor are a bit dated, and Caddyshack is very cheesy. However, with all it's flaws, our all star ensemble comic super cast is very likeable and the natural charisma of these legends shines through. Although, I think Caddy shack is highly dated and a little overrated, for it's time it was innovative and it's nice to see these comic legends together in this wild 80's comedy.

Old enough to be considered a classic. This is how the National Lampoon/SNL movies should work but rarely have. Snapshot of a few days at exclusive country club follows several divergent story lines leading to climatic golf match. Chevy's flaky Ty Webb and Murray's degenerate groundskeeper are unforgettable characters among a bevy of memorable parts. Followed eight years later by a sequel as utterly bad as this is good. 10/10

This movie produces one of the funniest and most entertaining golf stories ever. With a rowdy real estate investor coming in to explore the possibility of buying out a snobby country club, the problems are bound to arrive. Throwing in Chevy Chase as the best golfer in the area and Bill Murray to do the grounds-keeping, laughs are inevitable. Any golfer will truly appreciate this fine piece of work!

I've watched this film at least twice a year for a quarter of a century, and the last time I watched it, I realized something: this film is an anomaly. It shouldn't exist as a classic of comedic cinema yet, against all odds, it does. The story is pretty unimportant and there is almost nothing in the way of cogent plot or character development. Furthermore, it objectively fails as pretty much any formulaic type of comedy film. It fails as a romantic comedy, it fails as a coming of age story, and it fails as a class comedy despite its tagline of "the snobs against the slobs". However, like a McDonald's cheeseburger, it's greater than the sum of its parts. Taken individually, their ingredients are awful. But when you put them together, I don't know, it just works. I'm of the opinion that the reason that it remains a classic, and that countless golfers across the world chant "na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na- na-na-na" as they putt, is squarely on the shoulders of the brilliant performances of the cast. Some of the greatest comedic actors of that era, namely Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Chevy Chase, are firmly on their A Game here, and are absolutely sublime in this film. And with the help of the great Harold Ramis behind the camera, they raise these characters that should've been easily forgotten to some of the most quoted in the history of comedy. It shouldn't have worked, but it did. This film is not for everyone. If you aren't tickled by these performances, then there's very little to hold your interest. And I get that. But that's the way comedy works. It either hits you or it doesn't. And this film still makes me laugh out loud every single time. And I imagine that it probably always will.

Honestly, i saw the documentary and i think the behind the scenes was more entertaining than the actual movie. I mean, it was funny but it seemed to be more about the caddy's person shortcomings than anything else.

You've got Cindy Morgan (who's DESPERATE to be noticed by everyone), the Chachi (from Happy Days) knock-off, a bunch of kids with single lines that just weren't that funny.

Then you've got Chevy Chase & Rodney Dangerfield, who practically stole the movie from the original main character "Danny". And finally, you've got Bill Murray, who is in a class all by himself and was hilarious from start to finish, especially with Chase during the weed bit.

And Harold Ramis figured out, early into the filming, that the whole movie was going to center around Chase, Dangerfield, and Murray no matter what he intended.

The movie was, do doubt, funny but there were a lot of dead spots in it that you were just waiting to get back to the main 3 attractions.

Golf balls, that is.

Granted, this one doesn't have Bluto, Flounder or Pinto.

Does have a gopher, though.

The plot's invariably the same: the haves against the have-nots. But the war between the classes isn't the issue here. It's laughs, and plenty of them, all served up on an eight iron on the main fairway.

What fan of slob comedy doesn't know and love "Caddyshack"? The cast and crew knows what works and they milk it for all they can. Knight's at his blustering best, Dangerfield in full dominance, Chase in all his SNL-dazed glory, Murray on a comedic tear throughout, a gopher just trying to get by. And then there's Danny Noonan (O'Keefe) who just wants to go to college and make something of himself, caddying in the meantime.

I know people who can quote every scene of this film. I'm not that far gone yet, but there are choice scenes all the way throughout. Dangerfield's intro, the golf club dinner, the swimming pool scene, Chevy's Zen-assisted golf shots, the Bishop's game, the climactic golf contest. There's plenty more, but space is limited.

And through it all, the best cast you could ever hope for in this genre. Best gopher, too.

If you haven't seen "Caddyshack" and call yourself a connoisseur of this kind of film, you deserve to have Bill Murray practice for the Masters in your begonias.

Nine stars. And remember: a donut with no holes is a danish.

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At age 30, I have finally seen "Caddyshack". Growing up in the age of cable, I think it could be found on one channel or another almost every day. Other people my age have likely seen the film, or at least parts of it, at least a dozen times -- maybe fifty. And now I join the ranks, though I have no interest to make repeat viewings a habit.

That might sound like I did not like it. On the contrary, it actually exceeded my expectations by quite a bit. I thought it would be dated and no longer great, but quite the opposite. Chevy Chase is in top form here, and looks great -- especially now that I am used to seeing him on "Community". Bill Murray is pretty much always great, and this is no exception. I was never a fan of Rodney Dangerfield (though my dad is) and here he impressed me. All in all, pretty great.

The only part I did not understand was Danny's attraction to Maggie, the Scottish waitress. She has a mullet, is only average looking, has an odd voice... and then, when her pants come off, she has the worst granny panties. She is hiding nothing good under those clothes! I do not blame him at all for being attracted to the rich niece.

Caddyshack is one of the great all time classics of it's time. For any golf enthusiast this is a must see. Also, If you just like plain comedy this is a must see. I have seen this movie over 100 times and I still laugh to this day. Bill Murray plays one of the funniest roles that ever hit the big screen. After you see this movie you start repeating sayings that you hear in the movie. The late Ted Knight and Rodney Dangerfield are hilarious. If you are a Chevy Chase fan you must see him in this role. The role of Ty is the one that opened the door for Chase in such movies as Vacation, Fletch, Spies like us, Three Maiga's and Funny Farm. This movie is one that everyone should have in their DVD collection. You can watch it over and over again and laugh out loud every time. This movie rates on par with Animal House. These two classics will go down as two great movies in their era. For all the young people that have not seen this movie I recommend it highly. This movie is one for the ages. If you have not seen this movie go rent or buy it and I guarantees a laugh filled t

Classic comedy on the golf links with all stars involved lending their immense talents all the way through. Dangerfield is especially off the wall, but when isn't he off the wall? Followed by a sequel in 1988.

I don't understand why this is lauded as such a classic. I don't deny that there are a couple of short segments that made me chuckle, but they were few and far between. It's supposed to be a movie, but it feels like a clip show. The many subplots everyone goes on about are incoherent and go nowhere, the main character is unengaging, supporting characters kind of show up and then disappear or switch personalities, and too many of the gags are recycled jokes. Even Ramis, the directer, has said he "can barely watch it. All I see are a bunch of compromises and things that could have been better". It's not the worst movie i've seen, but i'm getting really sick of seeing it on top 10 lists.