Caddyshack (1980)

Stars	User	Rating
5	Paxton	88 _96th
You! Pick up that blood.
3	dunbar	75 _61st
In my eyes Dangerfield is the heart of screwball comedy and this is the film for him to let loose and shine. Murray and Chase compel you to watch closely but never really seem to unleash any top tier funny. The whole film just kind of bumps along. In one way it's timeless and in another more realistic way it's very dated.
2	jmarkthespot	95 _98th
SPAULDLING GET YOUR FOOT OFF THE BOAT!
1	grimace98	87 _94th
You don't have to love this movie, this isn't Russia. Is this Russia? This isn't Russia. (But you should love it)
1	nuotio	53 _41st
I don't quite get why this is so highly regarded among 80's comedies. It's OK but also a bit disjointed: Chase gets top billing but he's more like a co-star, O'Keefe is a bit bland as the lead and Dangerfield's shtick feels outdated. Murray is still establishing himself here and his character feels irrelevant. I would probably enjoy this a lot more had I seen it in the 80's like the Fletch and Vacation films, but for some reason this one escaped me and now feels outdated.
1	Ayavaron	20 _10th
Not really as funny as I'd expect from a movie held to be so legendary.
1	PeaceAnarchy	78 _54th
A little too much at times but pretty funny.
1	frederic_g54	6 _35th
I swear, Dangerfield must've had cocaine for breakfast every morning.
1	nandorizzi	35 _23rd
I suppose that it is an American classic of comedy. But I think that is done badly, very rotten, with bad jokes.
1	KasperL	30 _10th
Doodie alert!
1	Scold	50 _9th
Kind of boring and lackluster, I thought. I realize this opinion won't make me too popular, but there are plenty of other comedies I prefer. This one just didn't make me laugh...well, at all. It's decent, but I just can't see the riotous humor in it that it's apparently saturated it.
1	chemical404	39 _23rd
It's beyond me how anyone can like Dangerfield. I can't stand the guy. Even though this film is considered comedy classic, I didn't enjoy it any more than any random teen comedy. Well, of course Murray as always is a comic genius.
1	astrakhan	72 _24th
Simple, nice, and likeable, but it's really hard to see why this film has the cult status and appreciation it does. An awful lot of scenes go on for several minutes without any jokes or plot-relevant events happening.
1	nauru	15 _10th
This isn't funny at all. Chevy Chase is the only decent comedian in the whole cast, but unfortunately doesn't have any decent material to work with here. Nearly all his lines are crap. Bill Murray is not funny, period. I've yet to see him successfully carry a comedic role in anything. Plus his character is pointless. Dangerfield is lousy, the lead is forgettable, and the rest of the cast is a bore as well. No idea why this movie is so famous.
1	tinysausage	50 _5th
Weird mess with classic Chase and Murray.
1	glumpy_99	73 _42nd
More a series of sketches than a real movie, and perhaps the ultimate example of a film failing to live up to the sum of its parts; some breathlessly hilarious moments (mostly the Knight-Dangerfield feud, though the puppet gopher is also a scream) sit uneasily with the bland, conventional scenes with O'Keefe and nominal 'star' Chase (who both seem to be spirited in from a different, more grounded movie). Generally good natured enough to sustain itself during the sleepy moments.
1	Lord Moe	40 _6th
Although I didn't enjoy it as much as many other people (is Bill Murray supposed to be funny in this?) there's one thing that makes this film worth watching: Rodney Dangerfield. Seriously, the man is hilarious. It are some other good characters, but, really, Dangerfield is the scene stealer.
1	CMonster	90 _93rd
Chase is overrated in this, but it is more than made up for by an amazing comedic performance by Ted Knight. I wish he was in more films.
1	wedders	54 _5th
Having heard this films name many times over the years figured I'd watch it while I was checking out some other films with Bill Murray. This just really irritated me, and I had no idea what was going on half the time. The teenage lead character is dreadful, although some of the supporting cast are quite funny. It's not even worth watching this film for Murray; He has little screen time or laughs until towards the end.
1	schizotoast	50 _22nd
Ehhhhhhh, wish I liked this but no. Well, Murray and Chase were good.
1	Trooth	46 _16th
Big-name actors like Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield manage to pull it out of the dirt a bit, but most of the gags are just poorly made.
1	Danielcssl	30 _3rd
Why people like this, I don't know. Funny scene in the pool, but otherwise I didn't like it. This movie is the opposite of Rodney: It gets too much respect.
1	hsncrspywl	90 _89th
I wish this was the sprawling epic of comedy movies it seems like it could have been rather than the slapdash-edited piece of improv riffing it is, but as a piece of very improvised actors-being-funny comedy it far outshines the glut of more recent films which aim for the same thing. A plot which goes a thousand different directions can easily be ignored when you have a film ending with "We're all gonna get laid!"
1	disconnected	75 _65th
A basically formless comedy with an unexceptional premise and script that nonetheless does what a good comedy should: it gives a group of extremely talented performers an opportunity to do what they do best in a way that is neither cynical nor mean spirited.
1	talonmalon	49 _17th
To be honest, this movie never did much for me.
1	Alex WS	34 _13th
I dunno.
1	Groovy_Souls	75 _64th
The best of the best? Certainly not. But Caddyshack does its part to keep you more than entertained for almost all of its run time. Bill Murray steals the show, but the rest of the cast doesn't slouch. Most of the jokes land, and its ending has become near-classic. A good one to show the family for sure.
1	joel-w-m	5 _25th
With only the most minimal of plots, Caddyshack is more a series of comedy sketches set on a golf course than anything else, so when they don't hit home, it feels pretty bland, but when they do, it's quite entertaining-and with a great set of characters (Chase's mellow Ty, Dangerfield's obnoxious Al, Knight's uppity Smails, Murray's offbeat Carl) it usually is. Smails' tantrums and Carl's strange ramblings (his long scene with Ty is uproarious) are two particular standout aspects here.
1	wjswitzer	75 _3rd
Goofy but I'd watch it again - comedy that lags at times, but broke boundaries when it was released.
1	Salba	75 _58th
I could have watched this for the scene where Bill Murray ruins the flowerbed alone. This is a movie where the sum of the parts is greater than the whole - I enjoyed the individual performances of the notable comedic actors more than how it worked all together, which is not a bad thing because it seems built to deliver gags (I'm not sure they would have had an obviously robotic gopher if that wasn't the case). Some great dialogue, and a nice anarchic, anti-establishment ethic.

Average Percentile 52.96% from 4547 Ratings