Timeless Classic

Rating: Null/10 (15 November 2001)

I haven't watched this movie for a few years, but it's still just as good as ever. It may not be the best comedy ever, but it did launch the careers of Chevy Chase and Bill Murray in the movies. It did very well at the box office, costing almost nothing, and making over $60mil worldwide in 1980. There hasn't been another golf comedy this good since, and I don't think there ever will be. From the classic Rodney Dangerfield skits, to Bill Murray obviously having a free run from Harrold Ramis to improvise, it is the ultimate send-up of golf at its best. No shots of Kevin Costner getting backspin off a 3-wood which destroys the movie (If a 3-wood backspins into a lake, what does a wedge do from a lay-up shot do you dumb film-makers?) or Happy Gilmore going nuts, this movie simply works in every scene. When video players were just in the stores in 1981, and a few friends dropped around, this was the only choice. What memories!