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\"\"Caddyshack II<\/strong> (1988)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, sexual references and innuendo)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Allan Arkush\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Harold Ramis and Peter Torokvei\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Ira Newborn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Harry Stradling Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 22, 1988 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Dina Merrill, Jonathan Silverman, Jessica Lundy, Chynna Phillips, Brian McNamara, Marsha Warfield, Paul Bartel, Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, Anthony Mockus Sr., Pepe Serna, Frank Welker (voice).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $11.8M (US)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I have a funny story about going to see Caddyshack II<\/strong>, the sequel to the 1980 comedy that many regard as a classic. I saw it opening day at a 5pm show. I was the only one in the theater until a family of four showed up just moments before it started. The father, I kid you not, was the tallest man in the world. Take a wild guess where he decided to sit. Yep, he sat right in front of me. Since the man walked with the aid of a cane, I took the high road and moved to a different seat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I had a bad feeling about Caddyshack II<\/strong> starting with its PG rating. The original was rated R, but I guess the producers took a cue from the Police Academy series and toned things down, shifting the emphasis from the crude and vulgar to slapstick and silliness. Also, most of the original cast didn\u2019t return for the second trip to Bushwood Country Club. The only one that reprises his role is Chevy Chase who may as well have phoned it in for all the effort he makes.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I initially hated Caddyshack II<\/strong>. I thought it was stupid, unfunny, annoying and a complete waste of time. That was then. I changed my mind about it when I rewatched it about ten years later. It\u2019s still stupid, but it\u2019s so silly and good-natured that I just dropped my inhibitions and let myself enjoy it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0This time, the Rodney Dangerfield-type character, self-made millionaire Jack Hartounian, is played by comedian Jackie Mason. He\u2019s being pressured to join Bushwood by his daughter Kate (Lundy, Vampire\u2019s Kiss) who wants to fit in with a snooty crowd. The problem is Jack clearly doesn\u2019t fit in with the snobby Bushwood crowd. He had an earlier run-in with the wife (Merrill, The Courtship of Eddie\u2019s Father) of club president Chandler Young (Stack, Airplane!). She doesn\u2019t want Jack, a real estate developer, building low-income housing in her neighborhood.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chandler makes it clear Jack isn\u2019t wanted at Bushwood and does everything he can to ruin his business. Jack retaliates by buying the club from majority stockholder Ty Webb (Chase) and turning it into a Coney Island-like theme park. Kate is so embarrassed by her father\u2019s actions that she stops speaking to him. Jack and Chandler agree to settle their differences with a winner-takes-all game of golf. Not one to play fair, Chandler hires oddball mercenary Captain Tom Everett (Aykroyd, The Blues Brothers) to deal conclusively with Jack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That\u2019s not all that\u2019s going on at Bushwood. Kate wants to fit in with her friend Miffy (singer Phillips) and her brother Todd (McNamara, Short Circuit), part of the legal team suing Jack over his housing project. But she also likes this caddy named Harry (Silverman, Weekend at Bernie\u2019s). He\u2019s nice guy, Todd is an arrogant jerk. Who should she choose? Jack starts a romance with Elizabeth (Cannon, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), a club member also looked down on by the others. Oh yeah, that pesky gopher (voiced by Welker) comes back to wreak more havoc at Bushwood.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I laughed way more than I should have at Caddyshack II<\/strong>. I should explain I\u2019m in the minority when it comes to the original movie. I liked it, but didn\u2019t love it. It\u2019s funny, but inconsistently so. Don\u2019t take that to mean that I prefer the sequel. The first movie is clearly the better of the two, but I don\u2019t think Caddyshack II<\/strong> is all that bad either. It\u2019s just different. It has this zany, cartoonish spirit whereas the first movie was more like Animal House on the green.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I like Jackie Mason. He\u2019s a funny guy. He\u2019s definitely the next best thing to Dangerfield who was supposed to appear, but backed out after a dispute with the studio. Stack does fine in the Ted Knight role. Then there\u2019s Aykroyd delivering the single most embarrassing performance of his career (and yes, I\u2019ve seen Nothing but Trouble). What\u2019s with the weird voice? Randy Quaid (National Lampoon\u2019s Vacation) is a riot as Jack\u2019s insane lawyer Peter Blunt. Here\u2019s a guy whose negotiation tactics involve threats of extreme violence. Cannon looks very good for a woman of 50.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Allan Arkush (Get Crazy), Caddyshack II<\/strong> is very much like a live-action cartoon with its colorful look and characters, not to mention all the silly slapstick. I like the scene with the poison-tipped arrow in Aykroyd\u2019s butt. His exploding golf balls are also pretty neat. Not all of it works- the soundtrack is forgettable, Chase looks like he doesn\u2019t give a damn- but enough does to make it worth a look on a dull weeknight.\"\"<\/p>\n

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Caddyshack II (1988)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Warner Bros.\/Comedy\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 98 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG (language, sexual references and innuendo)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Allan Arkush\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Harold Ramis and Peter Torokvei\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Ira Newborn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Harry Stradling Jr.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 22, 1988 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Dina Merrill, Jonathan Silverman, Jessica Lundy, Chynna Phillips, Brian McNamara, Marsha […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedies","category-guilty-pleasures"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Caddyshack-II-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3468,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/3468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}