An adorable but meddlesome mechanical dancing gopher who adeptly steals the limelight, added to Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, and other classic funny men in a hilarious twisted comedy takes place at an upscale country club in Nebraska. What more could you want?
Bill Murry in one of his finest roles as a grounds-keeper at an upscale golf club along with the troublesome gopher will have you in stitches.
The most memorable part of the whole movie is when the smug little gopher pops out of his hole and starts dancing to Kenny Loggins’s (who did the soundtrack) “I’m Alright. This movie is for anytime fun and will make you laugh until you cry.
Bill Murray’s character in the film Caddyshack had many memorable quotes, here’s a good one:
“So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I’m a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one—big hitter, the Lama–long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga… gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, ‘Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.’ And he says, ‘Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.’ So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.”
Caddyshack Plot from Wikipedia
I love the songs throughout and the Kenny Loggins soundtrack fits the movie so well, that everytime you hear it after seeing this movie …you’ll think of the gopher dancing and laugh out loud.
One of film’s all-time funniest gross-out scenes comes when deranged assistant groundskeeper Carl Spackler (Bill Murray) find a suspicious object – actually a Baby Ruth candy bar – after scrubbing the drained country club swimming pool.
Wikipedia has a great plot summary…instead of re-inventing the wheel I linked to the article above – check it out.
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Sources:
http://www.80scultmoviesource.com/caddyshack.php
Quotes from funtrivia.com,
“Bursting with comedic talent in front of and behind the camera, Caddyshack is directed by first-time helmer Harold Ramis, and written by Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis, and Douglas Kenney. The film reunites two of the writers from 1978’s National Lampoon’s Animal House (Ramis and Kenney) and former Saturday Night Live alumni Chase and the Murray brothers. Sarah Holcomb who portrays Maggie O’Hooligan (Danny’s love interest) also appears in National Lampoon’s Animal House as an underage girl who goes out with Tom Hulce’s character.”
Chase and Bill Murray have only one scene together, a mostly improvised segment in which Ty practices golf at night and plays the ball through Carl’s ramshackle home on the grounds of the golf course.
Filmed in Florida at a posh resort club and golf club in Boca Raton and Fort Lauderdale, and on Lake Boca Raton, Caddyshack features real locations, real sunshine, and real sweat on the actors.
Caddyshack was recently ranked by the American Film Institute (AFI) as the seventh best sports movie ever made, just below The Hustler (1961) and above Breaking Away (1979).
I hope if you haven’t seen this movie yet, you will, because there’s nothing like a good belly laugh to help you escape from your everyday troubles. 🙂
Sources:
http://comic-films.suite101.com/article.cfm/fun_facts_about_caddyshack
http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Movies/Caddyshack-954.html
http://www.imdb.com
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