Great comedy that they just don't make anymore.

Rating: 9/10 (29 January 2004)

One thing surprised me when I looked up this movie is that I did not know Harold Ramis co wrote and directed this movie. So you learn something new every day. This movie is very funny all the way through, a rarity these days. Usually, comedies now have to either have a stretch of being sentimental, or they just do toilet humor the whole way through, or you have to watch fifteen other movies just to get the jokes. This one stands on its own merit and it is funny throughout. The caddies are the central part of the movie. They aren't really the main part, but the bulk of the story goes through them. They are also the least funny part of the movie, not to say they don't have their moments (Bill Murray did caddy, but I look at him more as a grounds keeper). The cast is great, but for my money the two funniest guys are Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield. Bill's character is very funny as I love the scene with him and the priest and Dangerfield plays a wild guy who disrupts the everyday workings of the country club where this one is set. Ted Knight is also good as a man who grows increasingly agitated by Dangerfield's presence. There is somewhat of a plot there, but it does go here and there and that is all right with me. There is also a pesky gopher, which sets up another great joke with Bill and the Scottish guy when Bill misunderstands him and this movie also made a floating Baby Ruth candy hysterical as well (another good scene with Murray). Chevy Chase is in this one as well, and while he does okay he doesn't stand out like the others I have mentioned.