Film

Caddyshack II

Name: Caddyshack II
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1988
Cast: Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Dina Merrill, Jonathan Silverman

Comedy
Light-hearted

A 1988 comedy about class collision at a country club, where a brash nouveau riche businessman buys the place after being rejected and transforms it into gaudy chaos. It's broad, loud, and unabashedly silly—a film that swings for the fences with every scene. For anyone who loves '80s excess and doesn't mind when comedies just want to make you laugh without apology.

TMDb rating

2.1

Should you watch it?

Watch it if you already love the original Caddyshack's anarchic, loose-limbed gags and want more of that chaos, and you don't mind a film that's happy to be silly and sloppy at once.

Skip it if the plot is a thin excuse for a parade of broad, uneven sketches, and its tacky-theme-park tone can feel more like a loud shrug than a joke.

What it asks of you: A brisk ninety-eight minutes of scattershot, sight-gag comedy; the story barely needs following, so you can drift in and out without losing much.

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