Utter mess

There were funny moments (nearly all of them whenever Chevy Chase was on screen, and the swimming pool ‘turd’) but for the most part this was a miss.

A story is set up with the caddy kid but it gets totally drowned out by what becomes an indulgent SNL muck-around.

Airplane, released the same year, has stood the test of time. This hasn’t. I bet the people who love it watched it as kids soon after release.

It was off the back of such people’s glowing recommendations that I bought it. That was a mistake. I actually found the Bill Murray stuff tedious. Bill Murray. Tedious. Takes quite an effort to achieve that, but this film managed it.

I can see why Harold Ramis said he was disappointed with the final piece. He went on to do much better work (including his masterpiece Groundhog Day with Murray on top form)