Caddyshack II (1988) User Reviews

Utterly dreadful

[A_Roode · 3/10 · 19 December 2005]

Every time I watch this movie blood comes gushing out of my eyes. Yes, you read that correctly: I've watched this wretched, foul thing more than once.

Caddyshack 2 went wrong for so many reasons: Harold Ramis dialing in a script and abandoning the direction duties, Rodney Dangerfield (wisely) walking away from the project because they wouldn't allow him to tinker with the script, Bill Murray showing excellent judgement and not being part of it, and a puppet being pushed forward as the feature player of a cast who deserved much better.

I can't help but think of Dyan Cannon in this and wonder why she's perpetually laughing and smiling. The only conclusion I can draw is that she is indeed the face of pure evil. Stay with me a moment. She must have been watching as the film came together and revelled in the untold agony that it would inflict on countless soon to be extremely sorry movie goers who would have this film inflicted on them. She may also have been extremely drunk. That's what I need to be right now to wash the foul taste of this complete and utter failure out of my mind. If I'm lucky it'll be washed out forever.

I have seen this film several times. I blame several of them on childhood and being a very dull and dim-witted boy who apparently had no aesthetic sensibility. Perhaps puppets are just funnier when you're a kid. No, the Muppet show is funnier now ... guess I was just dull. Caddyshack 2 is that rare kind of film that is so extraordinarily disappointing on so many levels that you convince yourself after the end credits that it couldn't have been as bad as all that. It WAS. It IS. It will only get worse with time.

My reasons for going back to this film, mercifully, are becoming fewer. Randy Quaid is limited in his role as Jackie Mason's lawyer. His opening scene isn't bad and brought out my only chuckle. We see him a few more times but it becomes as tired as the rest of the movie and descends with unfortunate rapidity from incidentally amusing to vapid wasteland. Randy Quaid acquits himself well, and this film owes him big time because if there was reason to watch this film as anything other than a torture tactic, he was it.

Maybe that's the trick of the movie. It has enough potentially endearing qualities that people watch it, are horrified at what they've done to themselves but later because the pickings were so slim can remember only what did actually amuse them. Years later they unwittingly watch it again and the cycle repeats.

Jackie Mason takes a lot of the blame for this film but in fairness, I'm not sure he deserves it. He's really trying out there but it is impossible to not to notice that he spends the entire movie doing a Rodney Dangerfield impersonation. That's who the movie was written for but I'm not sure even he could have saved it. Ultimately this fails miserably through terrible direction, bad editing (shall we count continuity errors?) and a rehashing of the same story with none of the wry humour or heart that made the first film endearing.

Dragged kicking and screaming up to a three out of ten instead of two by Randy Quaid's bulldog determination. It isn't even bad enough to laugh at. I've definitely seen worse, but trust your memory -- this one is a dog. If you've never seen it you've made excellent life choices and I salute your excellent judgement.

Fun, but stupid

[Smells_Like_Cheese · 5/10 · 10 January 2008]

After all seeing the very funny movie Caddyshack, I was looking forward to seeing the sequel, but I have to admit that I was nervous because I heard a lot of bad things about Caddyshack 2. I was also reading on the internet how this was voted one of the worst sequels of all time, which is sad. But I wanted to see the movie still, just at least see if it was really that bad. So I rented it anyways and watched it the other night. Now, I agree, this movie is really stupid, but it's a funny stupid that's very light hearted and has a few really good laughs. I know Randy Quaid can be annoying at times, but he really steals the show and his comedy is outrageous. I didn't like how they were trying to replace certain characters from the first film, but I let go and ended up laughing and having fun with Caddyshack 2.

Jack Hartounian is what you might call, "New Money", but he's a very successful in construction and is worth millions. He's a bit out there, personality wise, and dresses a bit crazy, but knows the hard work of the common man. His daughter, Katie, begs him to join a golf club so she could be with the upper class elite. But he makes a fool of himself and wants revenge on those who made fun of him. He buys the club and turns it into an amusement park! But this doesn't stop the elite from trying to tear him down.

Caddyshack 2 is stupid at times, like the gofer, they took the joke a little far. And Dan Aykrod's character, I love Dan so much, but it's like he took on Bill Murray's character from the first Caddyshack and made Dan really annoying. Jackie Mason is a bit out there and can't stand up to Rodney Dangerfield. But Caddyshack 2 still has a few good laughs, I mean, if you couldn't laugh at Randy Quaid and how he delivered his lines, check your funny bones. Caddyshack 2 is a silly movie, but it's all in good fun, but if we are just going to keep comparing to the first movie, then you're not going to have a good time.

5/10

The old, funny, classic shack, isn't back

[videorama-759-859391 · 4/10 · 19 November 2014]

Here's another example of a sequel that falls into "the too late, and why bother category". It has one asset: Jackie Mason. He's a classic, and rightfully likable guy, where Bushwood won't accept him, so he retaliates and that he does with personal malice, by planning to knock it down and put up an amusement park. All the magic to the original Caddyshack has gone, save for a couple of original stars, including that notorious gopher who we see more of, in this. Chevy Chase chatting up some hotties, uses some rude, tasteless lines that kind of mirrors how this quality whole movie comes across. Dan Ackroyd, donning a real high squealy voice, comes across as really annoying, a pain in the butt, which is where he gets shot with an poison arrow. Watching Weekend At Bernie's Jonathan Silverman at the start, getting used, by a snotty heartlss bi..h, that has him running many yards to fetch her a soft drink, made me thirsty, which had me thinking later, this scene was pointless and unfunny, although I'll always remember it. Mason and some hotties are really the only things, this movie has going for it, oh, and that gopher. Off by many tees.

Sub-Par

[tfrizzell · 24 November 2000]

"Caddyshack II" tries to continue the comedy of the first, but never does really come together the way it was intended to. Chevy Chase is the only returner from the original and this hurts the film. Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Jonathan Silverman, Dyan Cannon, Randy Quaid, and Dan Aykroyd do their best, but the material is just not present. The direction is also poor as few viewers will really care what happens by the end of the movie. 2 stars out of 5.

watch this movie

[purplebiker · 1/10 · 10 April 2005]

Watch this movie .....only to truly appreciate how good the original is. I'm not real hard to please, but this was one of the worst movies I have ever seen.

It hurt me deeply, because I like Chevy Chase, Jackie Mason, and Dyan Cannon. The writing was just terrible! I thought Chevy would have at least ad libbed some better stuff than he did. There was hardly anything to laugh at in this movie. I went into it wanting to enjoy it. I wanted to laugh but nearly cried.

In the beginning credits it read Special Appearance by Chevy Chase. This worried me from the start. Chevy is actually in more than I thought he would be. It's more than a "special appearance". Too bad the appearance wasn't special. Mason's character would have been a good secondary character but got old as a main. I would rather have seen more (much more)of Dyan Cannon. At least her character was fun, if not well written. I also missed the gratuatis teen sex scene. Mr. Gopher went from being cute and innocent to a pesky rodent that deserved to be blown up. Jonathan Silverman is the only character that interested me and we didn't see enough of him.

I take it back. Try..to watch half of this movie, then...remember the Alamo, the Maine, and CaddyShack I.

Worst. Sequel. Ever.

[jrdodson · 1/10 · 18 July 2012]

It's eight years after the mega-hit "Caddyshack," and the studio wants to milk that cash cow again, but it all went horribly, horribly wrong. They couldn't get Rodney Dangerfield, so they went with the third-string facsimile, Jackie Mason. Ted Knight? No, Robert Stack. Bill Murray? No, a bizarre and whiny Dan Ackroyd, in what has to be the worst performance of his career. I guess Chevy Chase's phone wasn't ringing off the hook, since he reprises his role as Ty Webb.

And it all went downhill from there. Where else could it go? Randy Quaid is just awful (surprise!) as is Dyan Cannon, Jonathan Silverman and Dina Merrill. The script could have been written by a high school drama class (and probably was), the direction is tepid and unfocused, and the whole thing is a limp and deadly mess.

Save your time and money and brain cells. It was like watching a car wreck--you want to avert your gaze, but you just can't believe what you are seeing. The worst sequel of all time. Ever, ever, ever.

This one isn't nearly as good as the first, but it isn't one of the worst movies ever.

[Aaron1375 · 5/10 · 29 January 2004]

While this one certainly is not the original, it certainly isn't bad enough to be on the list of worst movies ever. I found some of the jokes to be funny and it wasn't a complete waste of time so I just don't see how it has such a low ranking. Well maybe I do. The main problems I had with this one are the story and its focus. This movie really has nothing to do with caddies, other than Silverman's character there are no other caddies that are focused on. In fact, other than the fact it is a country club, Chevy's character is back, and the gopher it really doesn't have much else in common with the original. Jackie Mason is the focal point here taking the Rodney Dangerfield role from the first. Here is one of the problems; he isn't nearly as funny or likable as Dangerfield. The scenes with his daughter also get annoying as it gets somewhat serious at times. Chevy reprises his role as Ty, but other than the fact he goes "nananana" he almost is a different character. Dan Akroyd sort of takes the place of Bill Murray's character and has a few funny lines, but his performance will not make anyone forget Bill Murray from the first one. Also, you do not have special appearances in a movie, when that appears it just makes your whole movie seem a bit generic. Also, both Chevy and Dan were in the movie more than say Marsha Warfield who is listed ahead of them. There are some good performances though...I liked Randy Quaid's character and Robert Stack was rather good too. It is good for a couple of laughs and I do not really think it is all that awful, but if only they could have done a better job with the central story in this one. I just don't think Jackie was very good and he kind of pulls the movie down a couple of notches.

Plebeian manners

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 30 May 2018]

Rich contractor Jackie Mason has at the urging of his daughter Jessica Lundy gone to mix with the establishment at a posh country club. Her best friend is Chyna Phillips who is the spoiled rotten daughter of club president Robert Stack and Dina Merrill. She also has a brother Brian McNamara who is equally spoiled and interested in Lundy.

So Mason goes there and truly does not fit. What does he do but start a social revolution of sorts as was done in the original Caddyshack.

Only Chevy Chase and the gopher return from the original cast. The chemistry in the cast of the original is missing. Caddyshack II is not the classic low brow comedy that the original was.

Some funny stuff is present though. I liked the brain dead Dan Aykroyd and his battle of wits with the elusive gopher. Guess who comes out on top?

Definitely second rate. Like a road company production of the original Caddyshack.

Does what it sets out to do. Creats laughing. :)

[PatrynXX · 5/10 · 27 February 2004]

ahh, digging in the $5 dvd bin. come up with this controversial doozy. Still remember being almost 13 looking forward to this movie. Having never totally understanding film at the time, I loved it. Today 2004... I still like it. Provides a decent laugh. Sure, it probably doesn't deserve the name that it's under... but neither did the Italian Job. (which I prefer to call The American Job. ) But hey, you just don't go into this film expecting the first movie. If you did, you'll be crying for decades. Fortunately, I see the movie for what it was. More of a parody of the original. Nothing can beat the original. Caddyshack II doesn't bother to try. And I love that for it. :)

5/10

Quality: 0/10 Entertainment: 9/10 Replayable: 10/10

They never should have bothered

[bachdt · 1/10 · 9 May 2007]

What were they thinking! The original Caddyshack was brilliant and should be considered a classic. Everything worked even though it shouldn't. I still quote lines from it 25+ years later.

The cast of the original was superb. For Caddyshack II however none of them seem right. There is no chemistry at all. All the jokes fail badly. I just felt sorry for both Mason and Akroyd (maybe they realized that they missed out on a fantastic movie the first time and were trying to make up for it) I generally will sit through just about anything I've paid $3 to rent but after 20 minutes I couldn't handle any more. Its THAT bad.

A hard watch

[BandSAboutMovies · 3/10 · 22 December 2021]

It took eight years for a sequel to Caddyshack to get made, perhaps the greatest "hijinks ensue" movie ever made. I say that phrase because it's such a simple concept: a quick statement like "A day in the life of a golf course...and hijinks ensue."

The beauty of the original film is that despite the out there characters like Chevy Chase's Ty Webb and Rodney Dangerfield's Al Czervik, the story is really about the struggles of Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe), a working-class kid forced to follow the whims of the incredibly rich in the hopes that he can work toward a better life. It also comes from actual life, as writer Brian Doyle-Murray, his brothers Bill and John, too -- was a caddie at Indian Hill Club in Winnetka, Illinois. His brothers Bill and John Murray, and director Harold Ramis had all been in Danny's caddy shoes at one point. Most of the people in the movie were all based on actual members of the clubs that they had worked at.

Ramis told the A. V. Club that he went in with the right intentions: "They said, "Hey, we've got a great idea: The Shack is Back! And I said, "No, I don't think so." But they said that Rodney really wanted to do it, and we could build it around Rodney. Rodney said, "Come on, do it." Then the classic argument came up which says that if you don't do it, someone will, and it will be really bad. So I worked on a script with my partner Peter Torokvei, consulting with Rodney all the time. Then Rodney got into a fight with the studio and backed out. We had some success with Back to School, which I produced and wrote, and we were working with the same director, Alan Metter. When Rodney pulled out, I pulled out, and then they fired Alan and got someone else. I got a call from co-producer Jon Peters saying, "Come with us to New York; we're going to see Jackie Mason!" I said, "Ooh, don't do this. Why don't we let it die?" And he said, "No, it'll be great." But I didn't go, and they got other writers to finish it. I tried to take my name off that one, but they said if I took my name off, it would come out in the trades and I would hurt the film."

This moment of wondering why this movie is being made and feeling is that it's the wrong idea? That will come up throughout the discussion of this movie.

So instead of Rodney, we get Jackie Mason. Sure, they're both older Jewish comedians who married much younger women late in their lives, but that's about all they have in common. Rodney's character was an everyman who seemed to be using the audience as his therapist, bemoaning the way he was treated with lines like "I know I'm ugly. I said to a bartender, "Make me a zombie.' He told me that God beat him to it." To me, Mason always felt like he was lecturing the audience, somewhat above it*.

Dan Aykroyd is one of my favorite actors, but he's basically coming on to be Bill Murray. And while Jonathan Silverman and Michael O'Keefe are somewhat interchangeable, there's a large divide between Robert Stack and Ted Knight. And that's no slight to any of these actors, but when you're placed in the same exact role as a movie that is beloved, you're going to get compared. After all, Ted Knight is my favorite villain in any movie. He's perfect in his role. And while I love Robert Stack, I can only see him in heroic roles or parts that make fun of his heroic nature.

I mean, I love Randy Quaid, but his role was written for Sam Kinison, who would have destroyed audiences with that part.

To be fair, Dangerfield was to be in this, but a month before production, he bailed, realizing that it wouldn't work. He kept adding to his contract, demanding final cut and royalties and getting everything he wanted, except to be released from the film. This all ended up with him facing a $10 million dollar lawsuit.

But there still needed to be a movie.

As for director Allan Arkush, he told Sports Illustrated "I should have never made this movie! What was I thinking?" He told us -- in an interview we were honored to get to conduct -- "You should never make a movie for the wrong reasons. You should only make movies about something where you know no one else can make it better than you."

So what's it all about, you may ask.

Kate Hartounian (Jessica Lundy, who was in Bright Lights, Big City and Vampire's Kiss the same year this was released), the daughter of real estate developer and working man Jack (Mason), seeks to improve her social status by following the advice of her friend Miffy Young (Chynna Phillips) and asks her dad to join the Bushwood Country Club.

Of course, seeing as how her dad builds housing that normal people can afford, he doesn't fit in with club members like Chandler Young (Stack), his wife Cynthia (Dina Merrill, Operation Petticoat) and Mr. Jamison (an always welcome Paul Bartel).

Sure, hijinks ensue, but it's hard to get behind the blustering Mason, who strangely attracts Diane Cannon, making this into something of a science fiction movie. The gopher can now talk (someone get Frank Welker in the booth stat!) and Chevy Chase shows up for all of five minutes, most of which consists of him being a sexist boor to scare off multiple women in a scene that may have seemed funny in 1988 but seems beyond gross in 2021 (I know, I know -- let's not place our modern values on movies from the past; I'm also the guy who brings you all sorts of aberrant Italian and Spanish gut-churning filth, right?!? But maybe I just agree with the "medium talent" assessment of Chase).

The hardest thing to deal with in this movie that it's made by incredibly talented people placed into a thankless struggle to make something halfway decent. I mean, Harold Ramis and PJ Torokvei (who wrote Armed and Dangerous, Back to School, WKRP in Cincinnati and Real Genius) wrote the script with rewrites by Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman, who wrote Who Framed Roger Rabbit together**.

The thing that really sticks out to me is that Caddyshack works whether or not you play golf, but if you love the game, you can see the nuances and enjoyment of the sport within the movie. In the sequel, golf just seems to be something in the background, other than the miniature golf course finale that closes the movie.

I guess you should add the phrase, "Don't remake Caddyshack" to other important lessons like "Never fight a land war in Asia" and "Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line."

In our aforementioned chat with the director, this movie was summed up quite simply:

B&S: So why Caddyshack II?

ALLAN: Yes, exactly. Why Caddyshack II? There are no more questions to be answered.

*Indeed, Arkush said --after seeing Mason perform two nights in a row -- "I started to get a very different impression of him. The thing that occurred to me was that he didn't connect with the audience in any sort of personal way. That's not necessarily a good thing for someone who's supposed to be your lead. At least when Rodney says, "I get no respect," there's an empathy that he evokes from the audience."

**To be fair, they also wrote Wild Wild West and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, so perhaps...

Better than you think

[treakle_1978 · 8/10 · 9 April 2021]

Look nothing is ever going to touch the original movie. However this sequel is funny and has some good performances as well. I will admit the character of jack isn't the best but I've seen worse. The Gopher is funny and the soundtrack led by Kenny Loggins is great. So judge for yourself and give it a look.

Tim Treakle.

Awesome movie

[loadofsmith · 7/10 · 1 June 2021]

I have seen this before in the 80's watched it again yesterday. I laughed and giggled through the whole movie.

Mediocre

[dru690 · 2/10 · 12 August 2000]

Caddyshack Two is a good movie by itself but compared to the original it cant stack up. Robert Stack is a horrible replacement for Ted Knight and Jackie Mason, while funny just cant compete with Rodney Dangerfield. Ty Webb is funny, being the only character from the original. Most of the other characters in the movie lack the punch of the original (Henry Wilcoxon for example) except for the hystericly funny lawyer Peter Blunt, being played by Randy Quaid. Every line he says reminds me of the originals humor, especially the scene at his office (I don't go in for law suits or motions. I find out where you live and come to your house and beat down your door with a f***ing baseball bat, make a bonfire with the chippindale,maybe roast that golden retriever (arff arff arff) then eat it. And then I'm comin' upstairs junior, and I'm grabbing you by your brooks brothers pjs, and cramming your brand new BMW up your tight a**! Do we have an understanding?). Offsetting his small role however, is Dan Acroyd, who is obviously no replacement for Bill Murray. His voice is beyond irritating and everything he does isnt even funny, its just stupid. Overall Caddyshack II is a good movie, but in comparison to the awesome original it just cant cut it.

Pretty Lame...

[Banky-4 · 26 January 2001]

The near-classic first film is really a great comedy, whereas, this one recycles some of the jokes, and doesn't do nearly as well. There was a magic about the first film where everything just worked, whereas this time around, nothing worked and for the most part was rather unfunny. Watch the first ten-twenty minutes for the return of Ty Webb, and then go about your business...

The amazing thing about this one is that SOMEONE actually thought it was a good idea and would make money!!!

[planktonrules · 2/10 · 7 September 2018]

Have you ever heard the old expression "you can never go back"? Well, regardless, the saying definitely holds true when it comes to "Caddyshack II"...a film that fails in every way to capture the magic (such as it was) in "Caddyshack". Part of the problem is that this sequel came out eight years later....the other part is that almost no one from the original film is in this one. The sole person playing the same part is Chevy Chase...and he was the worst part of the original film!

In this story, a young girl from humble roots has inexplicably made friends with a cold and nasty spoiled brat. The brat's father runs a countryclub and so the girl's family is invitied to visit the place. However, the Hartounians are anything but the types for countryclubs and Jack Hartounian (Jackie Mason) soon ends up making a mess of everything with his low-class ways. All this results in great embarrassment for the Hartounian daughter who wants to fit in with the nasty rich jerks that are members of the place. And, it results in the club members not only giving Jack Hartounian the cold shoulder but trying to destroy his business...out of spite. And, naturally, Hartounian returns the favor!

Because of the dearth of original actors who reprised their roles, the filmmakers made a very bad decision. While the cute groundhog was one of the best things about the original film, here in the sequel they elevate its part significantly....which is NOT a great idea when you're talking about a puppet! Now, the puppet can actually talk (a bit) and its antics are no longer cute but boorish and stupid. Add to that lots of farting, a horse that laughs. the most idiotic golfing scenes in history as well as joke after joke after joke that fall completely flat because they aren't funny, and you've got a film that is a chore to watch.

I would have to agree with comments like "it's the worst sequel ever"....as I can't think of a worse one off the top of my head. However, it has a few tiny laughs here and there so it manages to eke out a 2...hardly a glowing endorsement for this mess! It's inept on every level...and especially where it counts...with the god-awful writing. As for the acting, it isn't good...but Dan Akryoyd is simply god-awful....worse than he was in "Dr. Detroit" or "Neighbors" or even "Nothing But Trouble"!

unnecessary...VERY unnecessary

[lee_eisenberg · 1/10 · 29 April 2006]

I saw "Caddyshack II" when I was ten and I mostly laughed because of the horse scene. I should have realized that the movie was as empty as...I can't come up with a good comparison. It's stupid and not even really funny. The cast members from the original who chose not to star in this made probably the best choices that they ever made in rejecting this; why, oh why, did Chevy Chase return?! And how on earth did Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon and Dan Aykroyd get involved in this swill?! I bet that every person who had his/her name even remotely attached to this junk (e.g., the caterer) is ashamed beyond redemption. So, all in all, it's beyond dreadful, terrible, and everything such. Avoid it like you would the Ebola virus.

Caddyshack 2: A Cautionary Tale of Bad Sequel Making

[mattpope384 · 1/10 · 15 June 2014]

Caddyshack 2 is a study in god awful sequels. Along with Blues Brothers 2000 and Beverly Hills Cop III, CS2 is in the trinity of terrible sequels to 80's comedy classics.

The basic plot of CS2 is the same as the first: a vaguely ethnic new-money guy crashes the WASP-y Bushwood Country Club. There are subplots about a groundskeeper and a gopher and young people learning to stand on principle, and it all climaxes in a golf match. But the original Caddyshack felt like a raunchy celebrity roast; the sequel feels like a lame afterschool special.

CS2 was rated PG while the original was rated R. This highlights sequel kiss-of-death # 1: the studio wanted it to appeal to a wider audience (read: something for the kiddies).

No part of the first Caddyshack is for kids; even the Gopher is more like a good acid trip (does anyone else see that dancing gopher?) – than a family friendly puppet. CS promoted sex and drugs and a contempt for authority. That's because it was directed and headlined by comedians who also promoted sex and drugs and a general contempt for authority.

But the studio wanted a family accessible sequel since the PG rating is generally seen in Hollywood as better for box office returns.

And so there are literally Looney Toons cartoon characters in Caddy Shack 2. Instead of Rodney Dangerfield's hilariously profane Al Czervik, we get a cornball Jackie Mason as a developer-with-a-heart-of-gold. Instead of the class warfare middle finger of Caddyshack, CS2 brings a saccharine "Up-With-People" message about self-acceptance. Bill Murray's brilliant comedic menace as the burned out Carl the Groundskeeper, is replaced by a grating Dan Aykroyd. Aykroyd is best as the straight man (Elwood Blues on SNL, Joe Friday, Louis Winthorp ). When he goes for zany like he does in CS2 he is like the unhip but well-meaning uncle at a family gathering who likes to do funny voices for the tots but then uses the same shtick when coming over to talk to the adults.

CS2's second sequel kiss-of-death is the lazy attempt to recycle the original film. Even though Chevy Chase was the only original cast member to return, CS2 limply retreads most of Caddyshack's other character types. Robert Stack is no Ted Knight and Jonathan Silverman is too bland to fill Michael O'Keefe's shoes in the Danny Noonan role.

Coming back as Ty Webb, Chase's one stab at edginess in CS2 is a bizarre and unnecessary scene in which he chases off a table full of attractive women in the club's lounge by propositioning each of them with silly euphemisms for sex. The joke falls woefully flat and is out of character with the charming Ty of the original.

The third sequel kiss-of-death plaguing CS2 is its troubled development history. Harold Ramis, who co-wrote and directed the original, was reluctantly coerced into scripting a sequel. Rodney Dangerfield initially pushed hard for a sequel, but later pulled out over creative differences with the studio. Ramis also dropped out and urged the studio to let the sequel die. Instead the studio brought in other writers and director Allan Arkush who had more experience with TV than big screen filmmaking, (which may explain why CS2 feels like a made-for-TV project). Other than Chase, none of the original cast wanted anything to do with the sequel. Lawsuits popped up over the use of characters and unfulfilled contracts. All indications were that CS2 was a project that should have been terminated in early development but, as is the case with many Hollywood disasters, the suits saw dollar signs and ignored the warnings of the creatives.

Caddyshack 2 is simply unacceptable. It's only redeeming value is as a cautionary tale for future filmmakers and studio execs about how to kill a comedy classic's name by attaching an abominable sequel to it.

as highlander II was to Highlander, so was caddyshack II to Caddyshack

[bleve · 1/10 · 22 September 1999]

It sucked.

I returned the video after watching half of it. Not funny,

just a cheap and desperate attempt to cash in on a very very funny original. junk, forget it, don't waste your time etc etc

Bad!!!!

[arclight-5 · 1/10 · 12 July 2004]

Why was this movie ever made?They have tarnished the original Caddyshack with this crap.I was only able to watch half of it and i didn't laugh once.At least i didn't pay to see it because it was on t.v. but i won't get back that hour of my life that i spent watching this dreadful mess.There wasn't one original star from the first except for Chevy Chase and he probably regrets doing this film.Jackie Mason was supposed to be the outrageous,funny buffoon like Rodney Dangerfield was in the first but Jackie Mason wasn't funny at all.Jackie Mason is no Rodney Dangerfield.If you want laugh,watch the first Caddyshack.If you like terrible movie's,then this you're movie.This movie stinks like a barnyard in july.Avoid at all cost.

A swing and a miss of golf comedy sequel...

[paul_haakonsen · 4/10 · 6 June 2022]

Eight years after the original 1980's classic comedy, the world was gifted with "Caddyshack II" from writers Harold Ramis and PJ Torokvei. Now, after having seen this 1988 sequel, it is hard to believe that Harold Ramis was actually involved in this train wreck of a sequel.

The storyline in "Caddyshack II" is essentially just a watered down rewrite of the original "Caddyshack" movie. Yeah, that was about the originality that writers Harold Ramis and PJ Torokvei could muster in an eight year span between the two movies.

The storyline was a swing and a miss, it was lacking in originality and it was lacking in laughs. So you're not in for anything particularly grand when you sit down and watch "Caddyshack II". So don't get your hopes up for this movie from director Allan Arkush.

And not even with the likes of Robert Stack, Jonathan Silverman, Brian McNamara, Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd on the cast list was there much to be enjoyed in this watered down version of the first movie.

Well, sure, if you are a die hard fan of the original movie, then there is perhaps some enjoyment to be found in "Caddyshack II". But I was just a casual viewer, so this movie didn't really cut it for me. But hey, the gopher made an appearance, and truth be told, then the gopher was mainly the reason why "Caddyshack II" managed to stay afloat.

My rating of "Caddyshack II" lands on a four out of ten stars.

A far cry from the first Caddyshack...

[IMSandman · 3/10 · 28 June 2003]

Why is this one no good when the first one rocked? Try the fact that they attempted to replace Rodney Dangerfield with Jackie Mason! Please! That's like replacing the Beatles with Wierd Al. Randy Quaid is the only one that saves this movie from a zero.

However, don't let this stop you from watching the first movie which was outstanding.

Great movie

[ajohns1 · 8/10 · 23 May 2002]

I have no idea why everyone hates this movie to call it garbage a travesty an unexceptable sequel is just unfair i mean what else could they have made for a sequel then. Cause seriously I think it should have had a sequel (Rodney Dangerfield) says: hey everyone were all going to get laid and then a little dancing goffer and thats it thats the end of Caddyshack even though the film rating on first one was (R) and the second one was (PG) it was still lots of fun .

(7/10)

Why the Bad Reviews?

[rtksunflower · 6/10 · 28 April 2021]

No, its not Caddyshack... but it made me laugh out loud which is what I needed. Personally, I liked Jackie Mason. The movie is not an Oscar winner but who cares when you want a light film that doesn't require a lot of brain power.

really underrated

[davekingman · 5/10 · 31 December 2009]

I was really expecting to hate this, I'd heard so many bad things about it. So maybe that's why I liked it more than most of the reviewers here. I didn't have such high expectations that it would be as good as the original. Well, it isn't as good as Caddyshack of course, but it is good on it's own merits, & very funny at times. I thought Jackie Mason was just terrific in this, he has great comic timing even when his jokes are old ones that I'd heard before. Even his delivery or his mannerisms make me laugh. The supporting cast were all real good for the most part, especially Chevy Chase who had some great one-liners, & Dyan Cannon was real good & fun to watch as usual. She looks really beautiful in this, considering she was in her early 50s. The girl who played Jackie Mason's daughter was pretty good too, & really nice to look at. The worst part of this movie was the Dan Akroyd character. Bill Murray would have been so much better. Also, the movie is just too silly, and just plain dumb at times, the gopher is used too much, and Marsha Warfield is in it (but thankfully, not too much). So, if you don't expect much, you might enjoy it. It's not a great comedy, but it's not embarrassingly bad like most people say it is. The problem with those people is they want to compare it to the original. You can't really blame them for that. But when you watch it, try to forget about the original and accept it as something separate from that. I wish Rodney & Bill Murray were in it too, but they're not. So what? I wish John Candy was in it. He would have been great too. But he's not, so what? It's still pretty funny. Hey, if I liked it than it can't be that bad. My standards are pretty high.