This movie is so hilarious and it has so many great actors in it. This is a true 1980's movie. If you're a fan of the 1980's movies, you would most likely love this movie. I think this movie is awesome.
This is a funny movie that when I was a kid I only loved it for the gopher. Now that I am older I can get a lot more of the jokes and it just rocks as a classic movie from the 8o's. It has a good amount of good humor in it for anyone to enjoy. Along with lot's of zaniness!
I used to be embarrassed that I had never seen Caddyshack. Now I wish I hadn't. Aside from the amusingly vague Chevy Chase and a few Rodney Dangerfield one-liners, I didn't find much to like. While watching, I craved the insanity of better films like Stripes, Fletch, Better Off Dead, and even One Crazy Summer.
My parents swear by this film, but after seeing it I don't think it held my attention well enough for me to say I truly enjoyed it. I love Chevy Chase, and other fans of his will not be disappointed. Bill Murray shines. But some parts of it were very yawn-worthy. However, I think anyone owes it to herself/himself to see it simply because so much of our current humor and jokes reference this film's material. If you've ever wondered where the Baby Ruth in the pool gag came from, see the original perpetrator.
I was surprised to find after all the talk about this movie over the years, that it really had very few funny moments, and I got really bored towards the end.
Chevy, Murray, Dangerfield and Kenny Loggins... It doesn't get much better than this does it?
This flick is incredibly dated but I love it as much now as when I first saw it. This comes down to it's casting and a general sense of fun that's hard not to appreciate. The set up is easy going and the gags well executed. For me, the Goafer steals scenes, the fact that he likes to get down to Kenny Loggins makes this a must see.
What a crisis! My head says three stars, but my heart says five stars. I have to go with my heart on this one....
I HATE all the caddy scenes....so pointless.
But then.....I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE every scene with Murray, Chase, Dangerfield and Kinght!!! Especially Murray and Chase!!! To think if they eliminated the caddy scenes all together.....
What a classic film. So many wonderful hilarious highlights. Bill Murray steals the show I think as the poor greenkeeper tasked with keeping the gophers away from the prized greens. Rodney Dangerfield essentially played himself by the look of it and made it a classic role.
One of the funniest movies ever made. Period. So many classic comedians, all at the very top of their game. It's the school of insult comedy as the snobs take on the slobs. Chevy Chase, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, and the legendary Rodney Dangerfield provide more quotes than possibly any other movie out there. A movie thankfully made before the advent of political correctness, no subject is taboo. From fart jokes to turds in the pool, it's gross out humor before gross out humor was cool. Non-stop laughs backed up by the immortal Kenny Loggins song "I'm Alright", the movie is an absolute classic, and interestingly enough, regarded as the first hit movie in the history of home video. VHS and BETA were just hitting the market back then, and this is the one that everyone wanted. 28 years later, and the movie is still funnier than any comedy made this century.
Harold Ramis shoots a director's hole in one in this golfing comedy, starring Bill Murray (as a hilarious groundskeeper), Chevy Chase, (in his most fitting role, a rich guy), and Rodney Dangerfield (in his best role, as a crazy smart-alec socialite), but it's not the comedians that hold the show, it's the younger actors, Morgan Wilco, and O'Keefe, and others, who make it really work. Set in a country club golf course in 1980, the caddies and the rich cats are out there golfing and cracking jokes, while a mad groundskeeper sets off on a one man Vietnam with a mechanical gopher. (PETA would have crapped if it was a real one). "I'm all right, nobody worry about me!" Great flick. Own it!
Considered a classic, but for some reason I don't think I get it. My uncle, who I'm pretty sure was a college drunk and a stoner, swears by this. He also champions National Lampoon's movies, which I can get behind. Caddyshack though, never really struck that chord with me. To me, an average comedy.
Carl Spackler: "I have to laugh, because I've outsmarted even myself. My enemy, my foe, is an animal. In order to conquer the animal, I have to learn to think like an animal. And, whenever possible, to look like one. I've gotta get inside this guy's pelt and crawl around for a few days."
Caddyshack is one of those wacky comedies that have simply permeated the culture. The action is set almost entirely at the snooty Bushwood Country Club, presided over by its most influential member, Judge Smails, played by Ted Knight. plays Ty Webb, a wealthy young loafer with a passion for golf. Chase plays him with his patented laid-back, nonchalant air. He's our hero, able to remain calm and flippant under the most trying circumstances. Bill Murray's character, assistant groundskeeper Carl Spackler. Spackler is just plain goofy. He speaks with a demented twist to his lips that make him appear mentally challenged, except that he displays a sly streak as he wages a pitched battle with gophers throughout the film. For all intents and purposes he's in a movie to himself. Rodney Dangerfield makes his motion picture debut as a crass, loudmouthed, obnoxious multimillionaire condo developer named Al Czervik, obviously a role well suited to his stage persona.
As campy as nothing in recent memory, this unfunny, probably non-scripted, terribly acted mess brings up frustration and stands as yet another example of how most of 80's comedies can't stand the test of time. And Lord knows how much I hate this Rodney Dangerfield guy to begin with, having to endure his lame one-liners and truly annoying dance moves which made me want to walk on my walls. While the rest of the cast isn't any better, the man is a embarrassement, and brought up the worst of me. Too bad only death did something about him.
And to think that they actually made a sequel to it makes me feel a bit low.
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