#38 Who's Your Caddy (2007) (Colin)

Cast: Big Boi, Mick Partridge, Falzon Love, Sherri Shepherd, Jeffrey Jones

Director: Don Michael Paul

Genre: Comedy

When I heard that the next movie on our list was a movie about golf, I was hoping it would be Adam Sandler’s hilarious and often quoted, (in my office at least), 1996 movie Happy Gilmore.  Yes you heard me right, an Adam Sandler movie I want to see and yes I do feel very dirty and will now go and have a shower with barbed wire and acid to get the stench out.

The other golf movie I thought this could be was Caddyshack, the brilliant and iconic 1980 movie starring Chevy Chase, Bill Murray and a superb performance from the late great Rodney Dangerfield, (whoa, did somebody step on a duck?).  I know this movie is not for everyone which would explain its entry onto our list, but alas dear reader, it is not.

The next movie on our list is ‘Who’s Your Caddy’ (2007) and the only thing I know about the movie is that it stars Jeffrey Jones, who played Dean Edward R. Rooney in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.  So with at least one actor with comedy pedigree, surely this movie can’t be all that bad?  Well you’d think so, however, scores of 2/10 on IMDb, 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and 18% on Metacritic suggest otherwise.

So the question is, was this movie Caddyshack or Caddyshambles?

Carolina Pines Country Club is an exclusive golf club run by Richard Cummings, (Jeffrey Jones).  We begin the movie by finding out that even former US President, cigar lover and dress stainer, Bill Clinton, is about to be refused admission.  So when hip-hop ‘mega-star’, C-Note, (Big Boi), turns up with his crew demanding to be accepted, it’s no surprise he is also refused.

To get his own back, millionaire C-Note buys a strip of land which just so happens to cut into the golf course at the 17^th.  He tells Cummings that he will happily give the land back as long as he is given membership.  Cummings refuses but counter offers with millions of dollars instead, to which C-Note knocks back, (idiot!).

Cummings hires Shannon Williams, (Tamala Jones), who is a bright spark lawyer to resolve the stand-off.  She advises Cummings to allow C-Note to join and to wait patiently for him to screw up during his probation period and to revoke his membership once he breaks one of the many rules.

And so that is the plan and Cummings hires a photographer to record C-Notes actions to get him thrown out of the club, but by this point I am so bored with the movie that, to be frank, I couldn’t give a tinker’s cuss if C-Note is allowed into the next scene, let alone this poxy club.

We are given some background crap about how C-Note’s father was working at the club and scored the lowest round ever, but that it was never officially recognised and actually this is the real reason C-Note wants to join the club and blah blah blah.  (This background story just feels like it was hastily put in at the last minute as they realised C-Note's character was more shallow than a puddle).

The movie crawls to it's boring finale with C-Note and Cummings deciding to have a golf match against each other, the winner of which takes control of the club........

So will C-Note be victorious and seize control of the club? Will the movie contain a single gag which will make you laugh?  Will I be able to sell my copy of Who’s The Caddy on ebay for 1p?

The answer to the last question is no, unless someone wants a cheap coaster for their coffee table.

It’s around this point of the blog that I normally give my opinion on aspects of the movie, however, this is really difficult as nothing happens for its 80 minutes duration!  They could have saved us time and misery by tweeting the movie as the plotline could be told in less than 144 characters: ‘It’s exactly like Caddyshack’.

Who’s The Caddy is just a blatant rip off of Caddyshack and whilst there was always going to be comparisons due to the fact they are both golfing comedy movies, the near identical storyline makes it impossible not to ignore the fact that Who’s The Caddy is unoriginal, a poor copy and is not fit to kiss the golf bag of Harold Ramis’s original classic.

Big Boi’s C-Note is Rodney Dangerfield’s, Al Czervik, but without the comedic timing, jokes, one-liners, warmth and charm.  When you look at it, Dangerfield’s character was actually an arrogant ‘baddie’ as he wanted to muscle in on the golf club and demolish it for re-development, but, for some reason, you grew to like him and really wanted him to succeed, (probably because you realise that actually, he does have a caring side hidden behind the brashness).  In comparison C-Note comes across as smug, cold and ruthless.  Not only do you feel sorry for Cummings having his nice little snob club interrupted, but you kind of wish he succeeded in his attempt to assassinate C-Note mid-way through the movie!

The humour of Caddyshack is one thing that Who’s Your Caddy did not bother to lift.  Instead of smart clever one-liners, we are treated to a series of farts and er, well that’s it.  Bottom bugles seem to be the only thing this movie can seem to offer to make you laugh and I’m now 38 and not 8 and this does not particularly have me rolling on the floor with laughter.  There are gags, (or so I’m told), within but they are told by the lazy clichéd black characters and get lost amongst the shouting, yo yo yo’s and hmm-hmms.  The only cliché missing was the neck shaking, finger clicking and a token aggressive black girlfriend, but I’m sure she’ll appear if, God forbid, there is a sequel.

The only surprise is the title of the movie, which to match the overall crudeness of the humour, I thought they would have called Caddyblack, but that would involve creating a half decent pun and the writers are no-where near this level of ability.

So was this Caddyshack or Caddyshambles? Well, I don’t think you really need me to answer that.  Who’s Your Caddy is one of the least funny, nothing movies we have had on our list so far and our list included Going Overboard!  Avoid this movie and do something more interesting like counting the grains of sand at your local beach, re-digging your garden with a teaspoon or re-painting your ceiling using a toothbrush.

At the end of the day, the world did not need a piss-poor pale imitation of the 80’s classic, Caddyshack.

Caddyshack II had already done that…….