This comment went right in the lumberyard. Humor is one of the highest forms of intelligence. Caddyshack is an intelligent film. Very much so. Example: "I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think." That is just one example of the sheer brilliance that is Caddyshack.
By the way, I voted for Ted Knight because he drives most of the action in the film and does a great job playing a straight man for all the other guys to riff on... "Don't sell yourself short Judge, you're a tremendous slouch."
I didn't think Caddyshack aged very well as a movie. Funny while I was a kid, but by the time I was even college aged I thought it was stupid. Animal House, for whatever reason, remains or remained watchable for longer I think.
Oh my god, I couldn't disagree more! Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, A Shot in the Dark? Timeless. You have a better point, in my opinion, regarding situation comedies on TV, when so much of the humor is topical, but then you have a series like Seinfeld, which I believe people will be laughing their a$$es off at 30 years from now. Some works of art, and that's what we're talking about, are truly timeless. As for Caddyshack, Drox put it best... The beauty of the movie is that there is no star. Each role was written, cast, directed and acted perfectly, culminating into a cinematic masterpiece.
Well, to help settle this debate... I first saw Caddyshack in around 2000 or so. I was born in 1980. I thought the movie was hilarious. It didn't immediately become my favorite movie or anything, but it was still really good. Rodney Dangerfield was the star, as far as I'm concerned. Chevy comes in second.
Bill Murray: "You got a pool over there?" Chevy Chase: "We have a pond in the back. We have a pool and a pond. The pond would be good for you."
From what I understand, that whole scene was improvised from start to finish. They finished the movie and realized there wasn't a scene where Chevy and Bill shared the screen, so they just told them to make it up as they went along. They did it in one take. Turned out to be one of the best scenes in the movie.
This would be an interesting thread of it's own some old movies that were great just seem silly 20 years later [insert multitude of examples] -- others like say Trading Places, Airplane, Top Secret, etc. seem to hold up to the test of time.
Totally agree. I was too young or not born yet when most of these movies came out, and I watched them for the first time in my early teens and on. I liked 'em and have watched them time and again and will continue to. There are classics and still hold up well. But most of the comedies of today, even the really great ones like Wedding Crashers, There's Something About Mary, 40yr Old Virgin, etc...I probably wont watch them more than a couple of times.
Has anyone seen the channel101.com series "Yacht Rock?" Easily the funniest thing the web has ever produced. Seriously. Check it out. Anyway, in one episode, a guy playing Harold Ramis starts to tell the guy playing Kenny Loggins that he is "making a golf movie, starring Michael O'Keefe..." Funniest non-music joke in the series. Seriously, people, download the Yacht Rock episodes.
One of my favorite comedies is Arsenic and Old Lace with Cary Grant. Classic and in black and white too. Caddyshack is funny, not the same level as maybe Animal House, but still funny.
