Caddyshack

Caddyshack (1980)

  • 76% of critics liked it
    (45 reviews)

  • 86% of users liked it
    (182,377 ratings)

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… More

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R,
Directed By
Written By
Brian Doyle-Murray, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Jul 25, 1980 Wide
On DVD
Sep 26, 2006
Warner Bros. Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

    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.

  • , Variety

    This vaguely likable, too-tame comedy falls short of the mark.

  • , Time Out

    If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    A pleasantly loose-limbed sort of movie with some comic moments, most of them belonging to Mr. Dangerfield.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Tyler R


    I really do envy people who were alive when this movie was made. In 1980, when people were called funny, they really were funny. Nowadays, the people considered funny aren't really funny at all. (Seth Mcfarlane, Will Ferrel.) Caddyshack has a big cast of people who can genuinely… More

  • Directors C


    Despite the fact that there was a lot of freedom for the film makers to do whatever they wanted to do in production it's still a hilarious comedy classic that's faster paced than even the likes of Airplane! and deserves its reputation for being quotable. The cast bring their… More

  • Graham J


    Way overrated by comedy fans in my opinion. I do love the scene of Bill Murray and Chevy Chase smoking pot though.

  • Jim C


    What fool didn't laugh at this. Its the misadventures of idiots at a golf country club. Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfiekd, Bill Murray, and Ted Knight all make you laugh and are great comedians. These jokes are so ridiculously stupid, and you feel good for laughing at them… More

  • Tim S


    Really fun 80's comedy classic. I can't list highlights because there are just too many...but if I had to, it would be the scene between Bill Murray and Chevy Chase. Not a particularly noteworthy part of the film (it was added as an afterthought and had nothing to do with… More

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