Caddyshack (1980)
Rating:
R
Runtime:
98 minutes
Box
Office (in today’s dollars): 113 million (approximately)
Characters:
Ty Webb, Al Czervik, Carl Spackler, Danny Noonan, Judge Smails, Bishop
Pickering, Dr. Beeper, Tony D’Annunzio, Lacey Underall, Maggie O’Hooligan,
Mitch Cumstein, The Gopher
Cool
Stuff: Al Czervik’s golf bag
Cool
Music: “I’m Alright”
Cool
Quote: “Be the ball.”
People
love playing the “what if” game. For me, I think Caddyshack is on the top of my “what if I had seen this movie as a
teenager” list. I, like most every other 15-year-old boy, loved sports and the
possibility of seeing a woman naked. This movie is 98 minutes of golf and sex.
How I avoided seeing this movie until I was in my thirties is almost
unexplainable. Would I have turned out differently? Would I have liked this
movie more? We will never know.
This
movie has enough characters to complete a couple of foursomes on the golf
course. My favorite, of course, is Carl Spackler. I love me some Bill Murray!
He is a Cinderella story, gopher assassin, and looper for the Dalai Lama all
wrapped up into one hilarious groundskeeper. Ty Webb and Al Czervik are the
typical jerk/get-the-girl kind of guys, and Lacy Underall and Maggie O’Hooligan
are the hot/get-the-guy kind of girls. Oh, and there is a gopher that wrecks
the golf course and dances to Kenny Loggins.
I
think the coolest thing from the movie is Al Czervik’s golf bag. I was a
semi-professional caddie in my younger days, and I totally would have wanted to
carry a bag that had a stereo, t.v., and phone as well as beer on tap. There
were also a couple of classic scenes from the movie: the Baby Ruth in the pool
scene is a great prank to emulate, and the playing a round of golf in a
thunderstorm scene (good idea on paper) is probably not something you would
actually want to do for real.
One
thing I found disturbing about the movie: Ty drugging Lacy’s drink (he didn’t
have to, she was all over him)! I should discuss this topic (and others) with
my buddy Tom. He is such a huge fan of the film; he even wrote out the
script word by word to help him memorize it. Tom is the Mitch Cumstein of his
time!
Next
movie to review: Raiders of the Lost Ark
My buddy Mike is adamant that this is the funniest movie of all time, and it's hard to argue against that. I'm not sure if Bill Murray has a single line of dialogue that I haven't quoted at least once in conversation. I remember watching this in college for the umpteenth time and having a crashing realization that Maggie from Caddyshack is also the dean's daughter from Animal House. Also, I never thought Ty was drugging Lacy. His place was a mess, and I always thought that he was just dumping some half gone waters together to make it look like a full water. Looks like I have a reason to rewatch it!
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