Description Hip-hop hilarity ensues when millionaire rap star C-Note (Outkast's Antwan Andre Patton) decides to apply for membership at the snooty Carolina golf and polo club where his dad once worked as a caddy. Club president Mr. Cummings (Jeffrey Jones) seethes with hostility but his nymphomaniac wife (Susan Ward) takes a shine to C-Note's buddy, Big Large (Faizon Love) and Cumming's portly rap-loving son is thrilled, encouraging C-Note to 'beat my dad'. Romantic potential surfaces with a cute African American lawyer (Tamala Jones), hired by Cummings to find legal ways to deny C-Note membership. Later, Cummings employs a little person assassin named Big Willie Johnson (BAD SANTA's Tony Cox) to get rid of C-Note 'permanently'. Devotees of cult golf comedy CADDYSHACK (1980) will feel most at ease over this bumpy course, especially when Garrett Morris--a compatriot of CADDYSHACK star Bill Murray in the original SNL-- shows up in a hilarious bit as a flashy reverend-lawyer. Before the big final golf match there's time for a bootylicious cook-out, a cruise in C-Note's pimped-up, no2-powered golf cart, some tough love with the mums (Jennifer Lewis); and lots of laughs via the obnoxious good humour of C-Note's crew: Dread (Finesse Mitchell); the most-sassy Lady G. (Sherri Shepherd); and the aforementioned (and very gaseous) Big Large. Aside from a late night strip club visit and some drug humour, this is fairly safe--if malodorous--fun for most of the family, with some good messages and even some real reverence for the game of golf.
Editorial Reviews A summer movie trifle that's somehow shamelessly derivative and genuinely amusing at the same time... WHO'S YOUR CADDY? knows it's low-brow and ridiculous, and that's why it mostly works E! Online (05/29/2009)
Patton has a subdued but likable screen presence, and Jenifer Lewis has nice moments as C-Note's no-nonsense mom Hollywood Reporter (05/29/2009)
Big Boi is a likable actor who projects... warmth and intelligence New York Times (05/29/2009)
Where CADDY really shines is in the supporting comedy ensemble, which acts like a demented Greek chorus, tossing out bits of incongruous dialogue that hit the funny bone more often than not Newsday (05/29/2009)
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