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Utter mess

posted 5 months ago by Melton (2699)
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There were funny moments (nearly all of them whenever Chevy Chase was on screen, and the swimming pool ‘turd’) but for the most part this was a miss.

A story is set up with the caddy kid but it gets totally drowned out by what becomes an indulgent SNL muck-around.

Airplane, released the same year, has stood the test of time. This hasn’t. I bet the people who love it watched it as kids soon after release.

It was off the back of such people’s glowing recommendations that I bought it. That was a mistake. I actually found the Bill Murray stuff tedious. Bill Murray. Tedious. Takes quite an effort to achieve that, but this film managed it.

I can see why Harold Ramis said he was disappointed with the final piece. He went on to do much better work (including his masterpiece Groundhog Day with Murray on top form)

[–] pazuzu9 (323) 5 months ago

You didn't like Dangerfield or Ted Knight?

[–] Melton (2699) 5 months ago

Dangerfield’s quips and buffoonery were lightly amusing. Didn’t find Ted Knight funny, he was pushing too hard.

From what I gather Knight was a serious actor surrounded by coked-up improvising comedians and didn’t enjoy the process. It shows.

[–] BeaSouth (2959) 5 months ago

Caddyshack has got you right where it wants you. In two years aftwr you’ve watched it three times, it will click and you’ll completely reverse course.

[–] Melton (2699) 5 months ago

Meh, we’ll see (if I watch it again which is unlikely)

[–] BeaSouth (2959) 5 months ago

I said the same thing Melton. By the way, I went to high school with Paige Coffman, the little girl who said “Ew doodie!” in the pool scene