Is Caddyshack actually good?

Caddyshack sits in the 63.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 63.5% of them.

How does Caddyshack compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Caddyshack lands in the 60.9% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Caddyshack's score based on?

251 calibrated reviewers stand behind Caddyshack's score.

1980

global pct

63.5

Film · 1980 · Films · 1980s

Caddyshack

Name: Caddyshack
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Released: 1980

Scored from 251 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

63.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

60.9%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

84.3%

AI-adjusted percentile

251 calibrated reviewers

Summary

At the snobby Bushwood Country Club, a young caddy named Danny tries to win a scholarship by impressing the club's stuffy co-founder Judge Smails. Meanwhile, a slovenly groundskeeper wages war on a gopher tearing up the greens, and a brash nouveau-riche developer clashes with the club's old-money members in a high-stakes golf showdown.

Caddyshack (1980) is a film IMDb files under the comedy and sport genres. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 6,376 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. 251 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 255 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.