Caddyshack (1980)

Lack of good storyline.

Brilliant and touching

Best movie ever!

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Caddyshack started out as a National Lampoon's Animal House-like movie. Caddyshack has so many classic scenes like the pool scenes, the "hey everybody we're all gonna get laid" scene, and the gopher.Harold Ramis made his directorial debut also co-writing the film with Brian Doyle-Murray (Bill Murray's older brother) and with Douglas Kenney. Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney both were writers for National Lampoon's Animal House. They had based the character of Danny Noonan and his family on the famous Murray family, and when creating the character Ty Webb, they had one person in mind for the job and they also semi-based it off him Chevy Chase. The movie at the time was the movie with the most crude humor, but that humor is now part of cinematic history along with Cindy Morgan who played "the hot chick" That every guy wants. Caddyshack established Rodney Dangerfield's acting career as before he did some stand-up comedy. But over the years people still remember his quote, "Oh, this is the worst-looking hat I ever saw. What, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup, huh?" As he played Al Czervik whose the obnoxious but lovable newcomer to the club. Bill Murray also largely contributed to the movie as the infamous Carl Spuckler, who in the sub-plot of the movie, is ordered by his Scottish boss to kill all the gopher's on the golf course. Bill Murray's character will make you start laughing from the beginning. Michael O'Keefe star's as the young Danny Noonan who is a teenager planing to go to college but can't afford it and is a caddie at the country club.

Sorry, I've watched this at least 3 times over the years, and still believe it's one of the most overrated movies ever. The plot lines are stupid and unrelated. I realize it's supposed to be a comedy, but the characters are less realistic than cartoons. It's like they hired funny people and just told them to improvise.

Caddyshack is easily the funniest movie out there. From it's hilarious cast to it's many quotable moments, Caddyshack will laughing even after your 10th and counting viewing. Chevy Chase and Bill Murray are quite the comedians but they aren't the star clowns in this circus. The 2 comedians who really make the film memorable are Rodney Dangerfield and Ted Knight. Nothing is funnier then seeing Rodney Dangerfield annoy Ted Knight to death throughout the movie. Whether it be when Rodney wrecks Ted's new boat or when he beats Ted in the golf tournament thanks to a well timed attempted gopher termination. Now don't get me wrong, the Tom and Jerry like humor of Bill Murray and the gopher is very funny and Chevy Chase is a pretty funny guy, but Rodney Dangerfield is the king of comedy. Rest in peace in Jewish heaven Rodney. Caddyshack may not have been the most successful upon release in the 80's but today it is a classic. If you haven't seen Caddyshack yet, well that's just inconceivable.

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.