| Caddyshack |  | Director: Harold Ramis
Actors: Chevy Chase, Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, Ted Knight, Michael O'Keefe
Studio: Warner Home Video
List Price: $12.98
Buy Used: $1.99
as of 9/4/2010 06:06 MDT details
You Save: $10.99 (85%)
In Stock
New (19) Used (34) Collectible (2) from $1.99
Seller: goHastings
Rating:  264 reviews
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD116304D
UPC: 085391163046
EAN: 0085391163046
ASIN: B000P0J07O
Theatrical Release Date: July 25, 1980
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
| |
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
A purely tasteless, moronic, guilty pleasure. Director HaroldRamis employs a mixture of Mad magazine/National Lampoon maturity and Saturday Night Live sarcasm in this goofball golf comedy set on the grounds of a posh country club. Somewhere buried in the slapstick antics, drug references, Marx Brothers-like insults, and gratuitous sex scenes are the intertwined, forgettable subplots of a poor caddie (Michael O'Keefe) trying to earn enough cash to attend college, and golf-tournament and class battles between rich and even richer snobs. Mainly, Ramis just lets his colorful group of eccentrics crash into each other, relying on several inspired performances to create several hilarious moments of sketch comedy. Most come from the trio of Bill Murray (playing a vile, obsessed groundskeeper engaged in a one-man war with a charismatic and very stuffed gopher), Rodney Dangerfield (basically re-creating his crude standup routine), and Chevy Chase (who looks bemusedly stoned throughout). Quotable favorites include Murray's acted-out fantasy of winning the Masters, his tall tale about caddying for the Dalai Lama, an overreaching priest's rain-soaked golf game, Dangerfield's verbal assault on the club's uptight dining patrons, and Chase's lesson on the essence of golf ("Be the ball, Danny"). A perfect double feature with other comparably crass films such as National Lampoon's Vacation or Stripes. --Dave McCoy
Product Description
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/04/2007
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 264
 Bill Murray's Classic August 27, 2010
Celtic El
Caddyshack will go down in film history as a sleeper movie that will last forever. Bill Murray's character is a running joke thru the film. Clever, shows up the phoniness of so called "elite." All the characters bring a certain joy and sardonic wit to the film. Enjoy the film, and you will be laughing thru the entire movie.
Caddy Shack August 19, 2010
Norma Anderson (Tampa, FL, US)
This is a great and very funny movie..If you play golf and just love watching golf...this is a MUST for your video library.
Blu-Ray Version Looks Fantastic!!! August 13, 2010
S. Johnson
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm not going to review the movie, as everyone reading should have already seen it considering it's more than 30 years old. I'm simply commenting on the Blu-Ray version and the picture and sound quality. Both picture and sound is excellent. I can't believe that they can make a movie that looks so grainy on DVD look so beautiful on Blu-Ray DVD. The color is very good, without being overdone, and the remastered sound is wonderful on my 7.1 surround sound stereo. Great buy and well worth $15-$20 if you're a fan of the movie.
A welcome HD upgrade June 22, 2010
M. Adams
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A welcome HD upgrade to the classic comedy. I don't think I need to go into the plot for Caddyshack and as such I'll review the Blu-ray disc itself. The new Blu-ray has a good HD transfer, it's not the cleanest print but I don't think it's going to get any better. The sound has also been remastered to a DTS Master Audio 5.1 lossless track which is nice and expands the sound stage from the previous mono only offerings. Although strangely the original mono track is missing.
The extras are included are the Theatrical Trailer (480i) and "Caddyshack: The 19th Hole" (480i) is ported over from the previous 20th Anniversary DVD. But the real highlight is "Bio - Caddyshack: The Inside Story" (HD 1080i), this new documentary is very informative and goes for over 80mins.
Overall an HD excellent upgrade over the older 20th Anniversary DVD.
Classic Comedy Gold in Hi-Def with a new Feature-Length Doc June 13, 2010
Alexander M. Walker (Chicago, IL USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
At this point, most of the major sports played in the U.S. have a quotable film that fans love to reference. Baseball has Major League. Hockey has Slap Shot. Basketball has White Men Can't Jump. Football has Jerry Maguire and The Longest Yard. For Golf, Caddyshack is that film. There is no equal. In fact, Caddyshack is downright one of those quotable movies for all occasions. Then again, what did you expect when you had Harold Ramis direct Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase? It's one of the most resilient comedies of the last 50 years and now Warner Brothers has given it the Blu-ray treatment.
Bushwood Country Club is like any place where rich white people congregate. It has a golf course, old people, and plenty of room for satire. Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) works as a caddy there and walks a fine line as the caddy for both easy going, suave golfer Ty Webb (Chevy Chase) and the rich Judge Smails (Ted Knight), who might be the key to Danny getting a scholarship. It's not easy being Smails's caddy though, as his fiery temper gets plenty of fuel from the ever-talkative, obnoxious Al Czervik (Rodney Dangerfield) and the romantic ambitions of his suggestively named niece Lacey Underall (Cindy Morgan). The story starts with a brief intro of the characters and works up to the big showdown between Webb and Smails. In between it all the caddies wreak havoc, Dangerfield rolls out one-liners like cars at a used car fire sale, and Bill Murray hunts down a gopher in one of his most memorable roles (mostly due to how quotable he is). As Carl Spackler, the mumbling, mentally absent handyman of the country club, Bill Murray crafts plastic explosive gophers, floods the golf course, and gives rambling monologues about sexing up the club's patrons and delivers the oft-quoted line about the Dalai Lama.
The Blu-ray transfer doesn't fix any pre-existing picture problems, however it definitely gives a noticeable boost to the colors. There's new life for the film in the hi-def transfer, at least visually. However, what aren't fixed are the individual scenes where the lighting of a given sequence changes to be dimmer than in those previous or the ones immediately afterward. It's an odd issue, and one that has always existed. I can't fault Warner Brothers for not going through and correcting something Ramis should have done all those years back, but it's one of those "Hey, while you're poking around in there..." factors that would have been interesting to see changed.
The sound hasn't gotten too much of a kick either. The places where the recorded audio for a given scene were blown out in the original remain that way here. The only possible place where a change might have been made was in the mastering of the music track. The film captures that feeling of summer days better than many films that have followed and the soundtrack deserves credit for that. Kenny Loggins became a staple for 80s soundtracks and for Caddyshack it's a perfect match.
It's the film you know, it's the film you love, it's the film you quote when you want everyone around you to laugh in approval. It's on Blu-ray now and while most of the problems that existed beforehand are still there, it does look better visually thanks to the colors looking more vivid in hi-definition. If that's not enough, maybe the feature-length documentary will sway you.
Blu-ray Bonus Features
For a full hour and twenty minutes, we get to listen to the cast and crew talk about the 3-month party that was the filming of Caddyshack. John Murray, Harold Ramis, Michael O'Keefe, Scott Columby, and Cindy Morgan recount some of the chaotic happenings that made Caddyshack what it is. If you ever wondered if the cast was hammered or high throughout the film, the answer is pretty much a unanimous `yes'. And, surprise surprise, just like in the movie, Ted Knight found the onset antics troubling while Dangerfield loved it all. If the new documentary isn't enough, the older DVD retrospective has been included as well.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 264
|
|
|
Disclaimer: In association with Amazon.com, product information on this site belongs to Amazon.com. DansMoviesShop.info makes no representations regarding either the products or any information vendors offer about their products. Any questions, complaints, or claims regarding the products must be directed to the appropriate manufacturer or vendor, or to Amazon.com.
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
