At an exclusive country club, an ambitious young caddy, Danny Noonan, eagerly pursues a caddy scholarship in hopes of attending college and, in turn, avoiding a job at the lumber yard. In order to succeed, he must first win the favour of the elitist Judge Smails, and then the caddy golf tournament which Smails sponsors.
If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead.
– ,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
This vaguely likable, too-tame comedy falls short of the mark.
– ,
Variety,
21 Mar 2007
fresh:
A pleasantly loose-limbed sort of movie with some comic moments, most of them belonging to Mr. Dangerfield.
– Vincent Canby,
New York Times,
30 Aug 2004
rotten:
Caddyshack never finds a consistent comic note of its own, but it plays host to all sorts of approaches from its stars, who sometimes hardly seem to be occupying the same movie.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
23 Oct 2004
rotten:
The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style (including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce.