Caddy Shack nearly breaks par.

Rating: 6/10 (11 May 2011)

After writing the enormously popular Animal House director John Ramis sat in the director's chair for the first time and wisely allowed Bill Murray and Rodney Dangerfield to do their own thing in this uneven comedy about Country Club swells and employees. There's plenty of funny in Caddy Shack but plenty of bogey making as well.
The members of the club led by Ted Knight's pompous Judge Smails are predictable clichÃ©s while the frat house has been moved to the links to accommodate the animal class of 1980. Wading into a morass of diversionary minor plots and idol chatter Bill and Rodney tear the place up with their genuine brand of irreverence.
Groundskeeper Murray acting and looking like he's taken a fair share of nine irons to the head delivers more than half of the films funniest moments particularly while destroying flower beds with a driver and delivering play by play. Dangerfield gathers up most of the remaining laughs by showing no respect for the snobbish members. Chevy Chase as the club pro is a smarmy waste and the rest of the cast verbose extras. Caddy Shack is clearly a two man show, everything else ends up in the sand trap.