CaddyShack

98  minutes, Rated R

         Every winter my family visits my grandparents in Florida.  Due to the fact that they live in a country club, I have been forced, on several occasions, to take golf lessons.  Needless to say, golf is not my sport.  However, it is an easy sport to spoof in a movie, which is exactly what Caddyshack does.  Despite its ridiculousness, it does accurately resemble the sport to some extent  There is always the snobby player or players, the really good golfer who is almost too humble, and the young kid who plays golf with the old guys.
           What started as a coming-of-age story revolving around young caddy Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) turned into an outrageous comedy. Unfortunately,  that did happen at the expense of the film's lack of foundation in the script; it cant seem to figure out whether to focus on Dannys quest for a college scholarship, or the comical clashes between the cultures of the Bushwood Country Club's elitist members and its working class staff; the snobs vs the slobs.  The film also involves its A-list of comedy kings (Chevy Chase, Bill Murray, Ted Knight and Rodney Dangerfield) to improvise and deliver bits of hilarity, but it's as if these four actors could have existed in their own movie.
          The constant re-writes and volumes of footage from this movie created a difficult task in editing. The first cut of this film clocked over four hours long, due to the hesitation to edit out so much comedy.  After a series of studio edits that followed, the result seemed more like a set of skits than the story of a caddy.  To intertwine the scenes together they had to go back and film an entire plot line featuring Bill Murray and a gopher puppet.  Doug Kenney, one of the writers , and the writer of Animal House, openly despised the final version of the 98 minute outcome of the movie.
         The story itself is rather disjointed and simple, but rarely interferes with the delivery of humor, as if in place just to get the actors to cross paths.  But the oddball characters are the best part of the nonsense.  It's infrequent for three vastly different comedians to have such fitting performances together without trampling on each other's skits.  Caddyshack is less a narrative than a string of insanely humorous moments inhabited by unforgettable characters.


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