Caddyshack (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 98 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Harold Ramis
Stars: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray
IMDb score:
7,2 (133.697)
Releasedate: 25 July 1980
Caddyshack plot
"The snobs against the slobs!"
Runner Carl Spackler is about to deploy big guns against a ground squirrel. The pompous Judge Smails plays to win, but his delicious niece Lacey Underall wants to score her own way. Playboy Ty Webb plays like he's the 'ball' himself. And the country club's screaming Al Czervik raises one bet after another.
Actors and actresses
Ty Webb
Al Czervik
Richter Elihu Smails
Danny Noonan
Carl Spackler
Maggie O'Hooligan
Tony D'Annunzio
Lacey Underall
Dr. Beeper
The Bishop
Reviews & comments
dutchtuga
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- 16970 messages
- 4101 votes
Bit of a mixed feeling. On the one hand, Caddyshack has a few wonderfully dry jokes, but on the other it all wants to get too bland. Chase and Dangerfield in particular make the film worthwhile and the pleasant script ensures that you hardly have to get bored.
3*
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Spetie
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- 38871 messages
- 8462 votes
Was a bit disappointing I must say. In itself, there are many good ingredients available to make a nice comedy out of this, but it doesn't quite shine.
Chase and Murray are the nicest elements here. Especially Murray, who is constantly fighting the ground squirrel, provides the necessary humor. Around that it is often a bit bland and there are also clearly moments in which it is all less fun or just collapses.
It also seems clear to me that the foundations for Groundhog Day have been laid here. That collaboration between Ramis and Murray is certainly a lot funnier than this one for the time being.
2.5*
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Lord Flashheart
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- 6454 messages
- 2376 votes
American sports movies; you have to love it... With American Football I immediately suffer from allergies (about the stupidest Neanderthal sport I can think of), but I can still enjoy golf. It helps that I played it myself a few times.
The classic status that Caddyshack apparently has in America is therefore not justified, although it is understandable: with Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray you have three of the greatest American comedians of the last century in one movie. Quite unique, but to hand out high scores for that reason alone is a bit too far for me.
I've seen Rodney Dangerfield a few times now and he always plays the same character: a noisy Jewish nouveau riche. Just as nice, but after half an hour you have seen it. I found Bill Murray particularly disappointing here, just like in his debut film Meatballs a year earlier. Such a role as klutz does not suit him. At the time, he was clearly still looking for a character of his own. Chevy Chase as an unfettered playboy comes into its own then.
The story continues nicely in the languid summer atmosphere of the film. Not unkind. 2.5*
Translated from Dutch · View originalPre- and sequels
Caddyshack II
1988
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