The demographic this movie was aiming at, young adults 18-30, EXPECTED nudity and sexuality with no purpose in 1981, most R rated comedy movie made during that time had it (Caddyshack, Animal House, Porky's, Fast Times..) I do agree that the scenes were not really that funny, but was crowbarred in the movie to attract it's target audience.
Nudity/Sexuality just isn't seen in most movies today. The combination of the #metoo movement and porn on tap for young men (and women!) has downplayed this aspect of human nature on the big screen...almost a reversion to the 1950's. Hell.. even James Bond doesn't have a good sex scene anymore.
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MovieChatUser497 (18943)
2 years ago
There was very little nudity in Caddyshack and the one sex scene that we did see did further the plot and it was hilarious to see Smails destroy his house upon finding out Danny porked Lacey. It didn’t feel gratuitous, in Stripes it was gratuitous as shit. And that’s fine if they were trying to appeal to 12 year old boys by throwing in a bunch of nudity but it did hurt the film. It would have been just as funny and it wouldn’t have been nearly as immature if they took out the adult content.
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