Caddyshack 1980

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A pleasantly loose-limbed sort of movie with some comic moments, most of them belonging to Mr. Dangerfield. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The first-time director, Harold Ramis, can't hold it together: the picture lurches from style to style (including some ill-placed whimsy with a gopher puppet) and collapses somewhere between sitcom and sketch farce. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Caddyshack never finds a consistent comic note of its own, but it plays host to all sorts of approaches from its stars, who sometimes hardly seem to be occupying the same movie. Read more

Chris Peachment, Time Out: If you're still at the age when farting and nose-picking seem funny, then Caddyshack should knock you dead. Read more

Variety: This vaguely likable, too-tame comedy falls short of the mark. Read more

Gary Arnold, Washington Post: Caddyshack, a derelict farce that lurches about in search of hilarious possibilities among the members and employes of a country club, is the latest misbegotten spawn of National Lampoon's Animal House. Read more