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 Caddyshack (DVD)
Description: Genre: Comedy / Theatrical Release: 1980 / Director: Harold Ramis / Actors: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield ... / DVD ... more  Caddyshack (DVD) ... released 28 June, 1999 at Warner Home Video / Features of the DVD: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen / A purely tasteless, moronic, guilty pleasure. Director Harold Ramis employs a mixture of Mad magazine National Lampoon maturity and Saturday Night Live sarcasm in this goofball golf comedy set on the grounds of a posh country club. Somewhere buried in the slapstick antics, drug references, Marx Brothers-like insults, and gratuitous sex scenes are the intertwined, forgettable subplots of a poor caddie (Michael O'Keefe) trying to earn enough cash to attend college, and golf-tournament and class battles between rich and even richer snobs. Mainly, Ramisjust lets his colourful group of eccentrics crash into each other, relying on several inspired performances to create several hilarious moments of sketch comedy. Most come from the trio of Bill Murray (playing a vile, obsessed groundskeeper engaged in a one-man war with a charismatic and very stuffed gopher), Rodney Dangerfield (basically recreating his crude stand-up routine), and Chevy Chase (who looks bemusedly stoned throughout). Quotable favourites include Murray's acted-out fantasy of winning the Masters, his tall tale about caddying for the Dalai Lama, an overreaching priest's rain-soaked golf game, Dangerfield's verbal assault on the club's uptight dining patrons, and Chase's lesson on the essence of golf ("Be the ball, Danny"). A perfect double feature with other comparably crass films such as National Lampoon's Vacation or Stripes. --Dave McCoyNewest Review: ... they are each given several scenes of their own where they get to play off the 'straight men' in the cast. The exception ... more ... being Murray, who is usually on his own mumbling crazy stuff to himself. Chevy Chase is not much of an actor and is usually too one dimensional and self satisfied to carry a film on his own but here he really gets it right. He plays his rich playboy character very well and is genuinely funny throughout. Rodney Dangerfield doesn't need to do much more than be himself (or at least his on-stage persona). He dominates every scene he's in and his loud, obnoxious delivery plays perfectly against the stiff, self important me...more |
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Caddyshack (DVD): It's a Cinderella Story (1268 words)
by count_zero - written on 12.04.08 (Very useful, 78 readings)
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Caddyshack is set in the prestigious and exclusive Bushwood Country Club and is the story of Danny Noonan. A young caddy from a poor background he is working to earn enough money, or win a scholarship so that he can go to college. But that isn't the point of the film and serves only as a central plot thread to hang all the other parts off. The film is a vehicle for the Saturday Night Live boys and was one of their first forays into the movies. Directed by Harold Ramis it starred Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, as well as stand up veteran Rodney Dangerfield. Now, before you walk away muttering I should point out that this is the film where Chevy Chase was funny ...
Kill The Gopher (1156 words)
by kenjohn - written on 31.08.05 (Very useful, 995 readings)
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~ ~ 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 recent ‘Tin Cup’. But for me, as a diehard golf fan, the ultimate golf comedy simply has to be the old 1980 movie, ‘Caddyshack’, starring such comedy geniuses as Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, and Rodney Dangerfield. ~ ~ The storyline is basically very simple. Bushwood Country Club is one of those stuffy, full of it’s own importance, golf clubs which unfortunately still exist even today. (Although they are becoming ...
Caddyshack (DVD): One of the funniest films of the eighties. (465 words)
by Chompish - written on 19.07.01 (Very useful, 88 readings)
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Caddyshack - 1980 - Orion Pictures Starring - Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Michael O'Keefe, Ted Knight, Bill Murray, Cindy Morgan and Sarah Holcomb. Directed By - Harold Ramis Produced By - Don Macdonald First impressions - This film is about golf, plain and simple. Personally I am not a massive fan of this sport but this film makes it a lot more fun. The whole plot surrounds a young lad named Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) and the golf course president Judge Smails (Ted Knight). The characters are all played very well by the actors although Bill Murray has a relatively small part as the groundsman Carl Speckler. ...
Caddyshack (DVD) : goffy golffrom cloudbt
14.08.2000
Caddyshack (DVD) : I Think The Gofer Just Dropped Dead...from HorrorHef1
01.07.2001
