Caddyshack

Pros: hilarious, provocative, cool
Cons: none

Most comedies die an ignominious death. They end up as plastic discs lining a clearance bin at Walmart. I don't know why, but to me, there's something eerie about all those seventies and eighties comedies, the stuff of VHS Hell, with marquees that say, ...

Pros: Classic humor, chemistry of Dangerfield, Knight, Murray and Chase.
Cons: Some nudity makes it unsuitable for kids.

Bill Murray. Chevy Chase. Rodney Dangerfield. Ted Knight. It’s hard to imagine that a film starring these icons of nineteen eighties comedy could ever fail. But throw in a script written by Brian Doyle-Murray (who also appears in the film and is the ...

Pros: still funny and well written as far as cheesy comedies go
Cons: some of it is cheesy

There are certain comedies that seem to endure as the years go passing by. The humor just holds up to the test of time. This can be difficult because sensibilities change and how people respond to the film can change. One movie that still gets me ...

Pros: Always funny, no matter how many times you watch it
Cons: Nudity, Bad Language

How many movies are so funny that you STILL laugh at them after 23 years? Well, there's one that I just can not stop laughing at even though I've watched it too many times to even think about counting. That movie is Caddyshack!

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Pros: Chase, Murray, Dangerfield and Knight and non-stop jokes
Cons: Not much of a plot

Many films are considered to be the funniest of all time. The short list probably includes Airplane!, Blazing Saddles and Planes, Trains And Automobiles. However, in my ...

Pros: Dangerfield's performance, the one liners, the gags
Cons: plot? please!

With the release of National Lampoon's Animal House in 1977, so began a sort of "golden age" ...

Pros: If you are in the mood for it, it's funny.
Cons: If you aren't in the mood for it, it's absurd.

I sat here thumbing through my old movie collection looking for something to make me laugh. I'd had a really hard day and felt like humor must be the answer. I popped in CaddyShack because it had been so long since I viewed it I thought it would seem...

Pros: Totally hilarious. One of very few golf comedies on the market.
Cons: Poor transfer to DVD format

~ ~ There aren’t too many comedy movies about golf. I suppose some folks would say that’s because there’s nothing particularly funny about golf. But (of course) they’d be mistaken! Some good ones that spring to mind are ‘Happy Gilmore’, and the more ...

Pros: Chevy Chase, Ted Knight
Cons: Silly, over-rated

Caddyshack (1980) has long been considered the quintessential golf comedy. With heavy hitters such as Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Murray, how could this film be anything less than a spectacular, side-splitting success? To my ...

Pros: Funny, funny, funny
Cons: Some humor falls flat

There are two kinds of people in this world....those who like Caddyshack and those who don't. I happen to fall within the first group. Caddyshack is one of those movies that you can watch for the 100th time and still wet your pants laughing. Kind of ...

Pros: Very funny, star packed comedy
Cons: Lame plot, but that did not make a difference

I just watched this movie last night, again, this time on DVD. It was just as funny as when I first watched it years ago! Oh those funny guys from the 1970s and 1980s! The movie has several stars. The plot centers around a golf course where a young ...

Pros: Rodney Dangerfield, Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, the cool gopher
Cons: Too many scenes go on for too long, the humor runs out from several scenes

I think it's true, there are kinds of comedy some people don't get. But this movie isn't one of those. It's a decidedly sleazy movie that seems to appeal to people with a dirty sense of humor. But some of those people would be bored by this movie. So it ...

Pros: This movie has some funny scenes.
Cons: This movie is made up of sketches. Some successful, most unsuccessful.

The re-release of great movies on their 20th or 25th anniversaries has become a standard home video practice in recent years, and it's a welcome one. Not only do the studios get to squeeze some more cash out of old titles, but also a new generation of...

Pros: Some of it IS funny
Cons: Not as funny now as when I was 12

I used to love this movie, but it gets less and less enjoyable when I watch it every few years. Having survived most of my early life on TV airings of ‘80s comedies, this marks the first time I’ve seen Caddyshack in its uncut, R-rated glory. I still...

Pros: Bill Murray and Chevy Chase
Cons: Rodney Dangerfield

Though I'd heard for years about CADDYSHACK and how funny it was, I was never very interested in actually seeing it. I was too young to see it in the theater and I kind of thought it was beneath my quality film viewing standards. Poo in the pool. Getting...