Directed by Allan Arkush and written by Harold Ramis (who co-wrote and directed the original Caddyshack) and PJ Torokvei, it stars Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dyan Cannon, Dina Merrill, Jonathan Silverman, Brian McNamara, Marsha Warfield, Paul Bartel, and Randy Quaid with special appearances by Chevy Chase and Dan Aykroyd.

It tells the story of a wealthy and widowed real estate developer who goes up against Bushwood County Club's snobbish president in a golfing tournament.

[3] However, Kenny Loggins' "Nobody's Fool" which was used as the film's theme song was a chart success where it hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Kate Hartounian is the teenage daughter of Jack, a wealthy and widowed real estate developer of Armenian and Jewish descent.

When the elitist, old money members of Bushwood meet self-made millionaire Jack, who builds low-income housing in upscale neighborhoods and displays many working class traits, his application to join is rejected.

In addition, Jack wins Chandler, Cynthia, Mr. Jamison, the Pierponts, and each of its "secret slaves" in an auction that involves them working on his construction site.

Chandler hires a mercenary named Captain Tom Everett to kill Jack after being hooked up by their mutual friend.

Chandler and Todd threaten Blunt with endless legal motions and filings intended to financially bankrupt Jack.

Construction workers portrayed by Andre Rosey Brown, Dennis Bowen, Gary Carlos Cervantes, Kenny D'Aquila, and Mark Christopher Lawrence.

Needing a big comedy for the summer of 1988, Warner Bros. agreed to Dangerfield's demands and paid Chevy Chase a seven-figure sum to reprise his role of Ty Webb from the original Caddyshack (albeit via a glorified cameo).

The studio invited Caddyshack director Harold Ramis, who co-wrote that film with Brian Doyle-Murray and Douglas Kenney, to write the sequel.

Growing disillusioned with the project, Dangerfield reportedly tried to force Warner Bros. to release him from his contract by demanding additional royalties and final-cut rights.

In October 1987, less than a month before Caddyshack II was scheduled to begin filming and with $2 million already spent by the studio on pre-production, Dangerfield dropped out of the project because he felt it would not be successful.

It was only after agreeing to direct Caddyshack II that Allan Arkush realized how much trouble the project was in: production began in late 1987 and Warner Bros. still insisted upon a summer 1988 release, meaning only half a year for principal photography and post-production.

At least when Rodney says, ‘I get no respect,’ there's an empathy that he evokes from the audience.”[3] Arkush also stated, "[Mason] is a very funny joke machine and you laugh yourself silly.

Of his role as Jack Hartounian, Mason said, "What I like about [him] is that he's more concerned with the way people treat each other than whether they use the right words in polite society or raise the proper finger to drink a glass of beer."

Despite working on the set with a golf pro, Mason could not make a convincing golf swing; he also couldn't remember his lines, had no chemistry with his onscreen love interest (played by Dyan Cannon) and his gorging at the craft services table meant the wardrobe department had to keep letting out his pants.

[3] Arkush had a bad working relationship with Chevy Chase, who was paid a substantial fee for a relatively minimal role.

!” Later, while watching one of his scenes during postproduction, Chase said to Arkush, “Call me when you’ve dubbed the laugh track,” before walking off in disgust.

The site's consensus reads: "Handicapped by a family friendly PG rating, even the talents of Caddyshack II's all-star comic cast can't save it from its lazy, laughless script and uninspired direction.

[10] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade C+ on scale of A to F.[11] Rita Kempley of The Washington Post wrote: "Caddyshack II, a feeble follow-up to the 1980 laff riot, is lamer than a duck with bunions, and dumber than grubs.

"[12] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times said the film was so bad "it makes Caddyshack I look like Godfather II.

"[13] Caryn James of The New York Times ended her review of the film with the words, "If [Jackie] Mason hopes to make the kind of segue from stand-up comedy to movies that Mr. Dangerfield did, he and his advisers better think again.

"[14] Dave Kehr of the Chicago Tribune wrote, "Caddyshack II raises the ghost of summer comedies past.

It's shoddy, lazy and numbingly stupid," adding, "The comedy is mostly a matter of flatulent animals and falls into swimming pools, and director Allan Arkush (of the engaging Rock 'n' Roll High School) executes it with an uncharacteristic clumsiness...

Given the name heavy cast – Randy Quaid, Chevy Chase, and Dan Aykroyd make appearances – it means something that the most fully developed character in the film is a hand puppet gopher.

[16] Harold Ramis recalled, "[PJ] Torokvei and I went to one of the first research screenings in Pasadena, and we literally crawled out of the theater because we didn't want anyone to see us.

"[3] Mark Canton, Warner Bros.' head of production at the time Caddyshack II was made, said in 2010, "It was troubled from the beginning because Rodney didn't do it.

They doggedly held firm to the belief that by simply replicating as many elements from the original as closely as possible, they'd strike comedic gold a second time... My justification for liking Caddyshack II was that it's ultimately a movie about its own failed attempt at a franchise.

Watching it again 20 years later, I no longer find it to be amusing on any level... Ramis' original [Caddyshack] had, at its core, a number of personal anecdotes about life as a teenage caddy that made it more relatable.