Caddyshack | 
 enlarge | Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, Michael O'keefe, Bill Murray
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  231 reviews
Sales Rank: 7956
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 99
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: 085391721529
UPC: 085391721529
EAN: 0085391721529
ASIN: B00004RF8A
Theatrical Release Date: July 25, 1980
Release Date: April 4, 2000
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A no-brainer that has become a low-brow classic, this 1980 comedy makes anarchy the rule of the day, unleashing the antics of Bill Murray, Rodney Dangerfield, Ted Knight, and Chevy Chase. Caddyshack is about the scheme of a vulgar land developer (Dangerfield) who wants to build condominiums on the site of a ritzy country club. Director Harold Ramis (who later reunited with Murray to make Groundhog Day) is content to let the comedy follow a variety of wacky detours, most notably Murray's maniacal war with a gopher that has been digging up the golf course. Dangerfield ultimately steals the show, firing off a battery of one-liners, insults, and tasteless gags. Caddyshack is the kind of movie some people have been known to watch several times a year, reciting every line of dialogue like the followers of a bizarre comedic ritual. --Jeff Shannon
Product Description
As a young caddy tries to earn a golf scholarship, the \""slobs\"" and the \""snobs\"" compete at the Bushwood Country Club.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: R
Release Date: 3-FEB-2004
Media Type: DVD
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| Customer Reviews: Read 226 more reviews...
 "Doody!" July 6, 2008
I used to live at Rolling Hills Golf and Country Club where CADDYSHACK was filmed, and from my third floor apartment overlooking the eighteenth hole I got to hear every line of dialogue in this film repeated ad nauseam by wannabe Rodneys, Chevys, Teds and Bill Murrays. I also got to see careless golfers' carts tip over, dumping them into the lake, something that should have been in this film, but wasn't.
Frankly, I've never understood why CADDYSHACK rates so very high amongst comedies. The individual comedic performances are consistently very funny (and in Rodney Dangerfield's case, truly inspired), but this film always has struck me as LESS than the sum of its parts.
In CADDYSHACK I always feel as though I'm watching a dozen competing stand-up acts a la the cable show MAKE ME LAUGH. The various bits (such as the infamous pool scene) are individually hilarious. Unfortunately, none of it meshes comfortably into a cohesive whole, and I never find myself wholeheartedly enjoying this film.
And, considering it was an afterthought anyhow, I wish they'd lose the gopher entirely. Man, that shtick is just plain dumb.
 classic comedy June 26, 2008
I was shocked that this wasn't in our VHS library, so I bought the DVD.
There's a lot going on at the exclusive Bushwood Country Club. Caddy Danny Noonan is hoping for the caddy scholarship, and his best bet is to kiss up to Judge Smails (Ted Knight). Judge Smails meets his nemesis in the uncouth Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield), who's thinking of buying the club. Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) is a rich playboy who refuses to take anything seriously and is full of skewed advice for Danny, who he takes under his wing.
And then there's Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), the assistant groundskeeper who's tasked with killing the golfers... er... gophers.
This is such a classic comedy. I was surprised at how long it had been since I'd seen it, because so many of the scenes remained so vivid--the Baby Ruth bar in the pool, "see the ball, be the ball," the multiple attacks on the gophers.
I was about to say that this was a comedy without a message, but I realized it's not, really--it's about pretension. You end up rooting for the characters without it--Ty, Danny, and even Carl and Al--and sneering at the pretentious caddies and Judge Smails.
One thing I didn't really remember from watching this before: Chevy Chase was surprisingly hot. Or maybe I'm just drawn to quirkiness.
Anyway, fun stuff.
Cinderella Story... June 18, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The first time I saw this movie I just had my wisdom teeth removed. As Carl the greenskeeper teed up the flowers and drove them into oblivion, I laughed so hard I popped out half the stitches in my mouth. It was well worth it.
The movie has a all-star cast of comics doing everything you always thought went on behind the scenes at an elite country club. Nothing is sacred. This may have been Ted Knight's last movie role. At least he went out on top.
This DVD is definitely not going into the "lumberyard".
Yet another 80's dud. June 16, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
UUGH!!!
The 80's wasn't exactly Hollyweirds best era.
Caddy is yet another clunker with gradeschool humor and bad acting.
I really can't recommend this one to anyone except those who are interested in bad 80's comedy.
Bad direction, bad acting, bad everything.
Pass.
Be the Ball... I'm Alright June 10, 2008
I strictly got it and the gopher toy because I am a fan of the one and only Kenny Loggins. This was his debut as "movie soundtrack king" although he did compose I Believe in Love for another John Peters filmA Star Is Born (1976 Film) and later covered the tune himself. The gopher is so hilarious. It's a shame the sequel didn't work out well...
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