Editing Caddyshack II (section)

== Reception ==
''Caddyshack II'' was panned by critics and grossed $11,798,302 compared to the original's $39 million [[Gross (economics)|gross]] at the [[box office]].<ref name="latimes box office">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-258-story.html|title=Box Office Champs, Chumps : The hero of the bottom line was the 46-year-old 'Bambi'|first=Leonard|last=Klady|date=8 January 1989|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=March 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308095441/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-01-08-ca-258-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film a score of 4% based on 24 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Handicapped by a family friendly PG rating, even the talents of ''Caddyshack II''{{'}}s all-star comic cast can't save it from its lazy, laughless script and uninspired direction."<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/caddyshack_2 |title= Caddyshack II |website= [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date= December 30, 2020 |archive-date= December 21, 2020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20201221103115/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/caddyshack_2 |url-status= live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a score of 7 out of 100 based on reviews from 7 critics, indicating "overwhelming dislike".<ref>{{cite web |title= Caddyshack II |url= https://www.metacritic.com/movie/caddyshack-ii |website= [[Metacritic]] |access-date= August 30, 2019 |archive-date= March 26, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190326200236/https://www.metacritic.com/movie/caddyshack-ii |url-status= live }}</ref> Audiences surveyed by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |title= Cinemascore |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181220122629/https://www.cinemascore.com/publicsearch/index/title/ |archive-date= 2018-12-20 |access-date= 2019-08-30 }}</ref>

Rita Kempley of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' wrote: "''Caddyshack II'', a feeble follow-up to the 1980 laff riot, is lamer than a duck with bunions, and dumber than grubs. It's patronizing and clumsily manipulative, and top banana Jackie Mason is upstaged by the gopher puppet."<ref>{{cite news |date= July 22, 1988 |author-first1= Rita |author-last1=Kempley |title= 'Caddyshack II' |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/caddyshackiipgkempley_a0c9fe.htm |newspaper= [[The Washington Post]] |access-date= August 30, 2019 |archive-date= May 6, 2019 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190506162903/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/caddyshackiipgkempley_a0c9fe.htm |url-status= live }}</ref>

Michael Wilmington of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' said the film was so bad "it makes ''Caddyshack I'' look like ''[[The Godfather Part II|Godfather II]].''"<ref name="latimes">{{cite news |last=Wilmington |first=Michael |date=26 July 1988 |title=Movie Review: 'Caddyshack' Sequel Turns Out to Be No Laughing Matter |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-26-ca-6174-story.html |access-date=August 30, 2019 |archive-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506204947/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-07-26-ca-6174-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Caryn James]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' ended her review of the film with the words, "If [Jackie] Mason hopes to make the kind of segue from stand-up comedy to movies that Mr. Dangerfield did, he and his advisers better think again. ''Caddyshack II'' is the kind of film that sends careers spiraling downward."<ref>{{cite web|last=James|first=Caryn|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/23/movies/jackie-mason-re-adjusts-his-stand-up-persona.html|title=Jackie Mason Re-adjusts His Stand-Up Persona|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=23 July 1988|access-date=February 17, 2022|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217022434/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/23/movies/jackie-mason-re-adjusts-his-stand-up-persona.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Dave Kehr]] of the [[Chicago Tribune]] wrote, "''Caddyshack II'' raises the ghost of summer comedies past. It's shoddy, lazy and numbingly stupid," adding, "The comedy is mostly a matter of flatulent animals and falls into swimming pools, and director Allan Arkush (of the engaging ''Rock 'n' Roll High School'') executes it with an uncharacteristic clumsiness... Given the name heavy cast – Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd make appearances – it means something that the most fully developed character in the film is a hand puppet gopher."<ref>{{cite web|last=Kehr|first=Dave|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-07-25-8801170830-story.html|title=All 'Caddyshack II' offers is stupidity with a message|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=25 July 1988|access-date=February 17, 2022|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217022436/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1988-07-25-8801170830-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The film received four [[Golden Raspberry Award]] nominations; it won two. It was nominated for Worst Picture and Worst Actor (Mason) and won for Worst Supporting Actor (Aykroyd) and Worst Original Song ("Jack Fresh").<ref name="SI" /> It also won Worst Picture at the [[1988 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094824/awards |title=Caddyshack II - Awards - IMDb |access-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-date=February 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217022434/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094824/awards |url-status=live }}</ref>

Harold Ramis recalled, "[PJ] Torokvei and I went to one of the first research screenings in [[Pasadena]], and we literally crawled out of the theater because we didn't want anyone to see us."<ref name="SI" />

[[Mark Canton]], Warner Bros.' head of production at the time ''Caddyshack II'' was made, said in 2010, "It was troubled from the beginning because Rodney didn't do it. No offense to Jackie Mason, but it just didn’t work. It was well-intentioned and it was a good business move, but it just wasn’t the same."<ref name="SI" />

On the subject of ''Caddyshack II'', Bill Murray remarked, "You know, ''Caddyshack'' was a great thing. There were some extraordinary people in it, Ted Knight, Rodney Dangerfield, [[Henry Wilcoxon|the guy who played the bishop]], these are people who have passed away. They were great people, great actors and lots of fun, and it was an unusual thing. Can't you be happy with having seen it and watched it? You want it again?"<ref>{{cite web|last=Shackelford|first=Geoff|url=https://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2006/2/2/hey-bill-how-about-a-caddyshack-2.html|title=Hey Bill, How About A Caddyshack 2?|work=geoffshackelford.com|date=2 February 2006|access-date=February 17, 2022|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217064245/https://www.geoffshackelford.com/homepage/2006/2/2/hey-bill-how-about-a-caddyshack-2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In his book ''My Year of Chevy: One Man's Journey Through the Filmography of Chevy Chase'' (2013), film critic Mike McGranaghan wrote:

{{cquote|For a few years following its release, I actually kind of liked ''Caddyshack II''. Not in a traditional way, mind you. This is a very bad picture, yet I was fascinated by its utter refusal to deviate from the formula. They theoretically could have gone a hundred different ways or told a brand new story about life at Bushwood, but they didn't. They doggedly held firm to the belief that by simply replicating as many elements from the original as closely as possible, they'd strike comedic gold a second time... My justification for liking ''Caddyshack II'' was that it's ultimately a movie about its own failed attempt at a franchise. It is an example of people desperately trying to catch lightning in a bottle twice. For me, that made some of the scenes humorous at the time. I didn't laugh because the comedy was of good quality...I laughed because the intention to duplicate the formula was so blatant that it became sublimely absurd... Any humor [''Caddyshack II''] contains comes not from the material but from the failed attempt at pulling the material off. I thought that, while it didn't work at the intended level, it did work on a whole other, unintended level.

Watching it again 20 years later, I no longer find it to be amusing on ''any'' level... Ramis' original [''Caddyshack''] had, at its core, a number of personal anecdotes about life as a teenage caddy that made it more relatable. The sequel is just forced. It completely loses the anarchic spirit of the first one. It has slobs and snobs but not the underlying heart. The comedy is far too over-the-top, and the message about elitism is so overt that the comedy is suffocated... Ty Webb's famous "be the ball" advice was all about following one's instincts to achieve success. ''Caddyshack'' knew how to be the ball, and ended up a comedic hole in one. ''Caddyshack II'' sliced into the woods.<ref>{{cite book|title=My Year of Chevy: One Man's Journey Through the Filmography of Chevy Chase|first1=Mike|last1=McGranaghan|year=2013|publisher=Lulu Press|pages=23-24}}{{ISBN missing}}</ref>}}

Allan Arkush regretted directing ''Caddyshack II'', the experience of which he claimed sent him to therapy.<ref name="SI" /> He later said, "You should never make a movie for the wrong reasons. You should only make movies about something where you know no one else can make it better than you... It was my own fault. Everyone who worked on it worked hard and the writers were good. It was great to work with Danny Aykroyd."<ref name="BSM" />