A Year of Garbage Movies #90, “Caddyshack II” (1988)

This is the first of several movies to end up on this list for heresy. The greed of studio executives and a blindness to what makes a successful movie resonate with audiences and critics will be a recurring theme on the upcoming carousel of half-assed sequels to great movies.

I think this film’s conception played out like the business card scene in American Psycho, except instead of business cards each exec wrote down an original film to milk dry on a Post-It note, which they then proceeded to snort cocaine off of.

I have an alternate theory based on the rumors that Chevy Chase can be a terror to work with; this movie was conjured up by an executive with a personal vendetta. The presence of Randy Quaid supports this, and also reinforces my other theory that his relationship with Chase is exactly like that between Cousin Eddie and Clark Griswald in the Vacation franchise.

The Duality of Quaid. It took me about as long to make this as it did to watch the movie, and was a better use of my time.

Unable to get Rodney Dangerfield, they got Jackie Mason to play the same basic character and hoped nobody would notice.

This basically follows the formula of the first movie; they revisit the theme of “blue-blood snobs looking down on other rich people who are also somehow champions of the common man” but choose to beat you over the head with it in case the first movie was too subtle. We’re supposed to come out…