Review of Caddyshack (1980) by Roger Ebert for Chicago Sun-Times — 19 Mar 2017
Dangerfield is funniest, though, when the movie just lets him talk. He's a Henny Youngman clone, filled with one-liners and insults, and he's great at the country club's dinner dance, abusing everyone and making rude noises.
Surveying the crowd from the bar, he uses lines that he has, in fact, stolen directly from his nightclub routine ("This steak still has the mark of the jockey's whip on it"). With his bizarre wardrobe and trick golf bag, he's a throwback to the Groucho Marx and W.
C. Fields school of insult comedy; he has a vitality that the movie's younger comedians can't match, and they suffer in comparison.
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This review of Caddyshack (1980) was written by Roger Ebert and published by Chicago Sun-Times on 19 Mar 2017.
Caddyshack has generally received positive reviews.
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