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Who's Your Caddy?

It's almost as funny as 'Smack Dat Rizzaquetball'

By Matt Pais, Metromix

July 27, 2007

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Rapper Christopher "C-Note" Hawkins (Antwan "Big Boi" Patton of OutKast) claims possession of an estate on the fringes of the stuffy Carolina golf course where his dad used to caddy and allegedly racked up the all-time best round. This doesn't sit well with the conservative country club president (Jeffrey Jones), who liked things better when he could putt without scantily clad women shaking their junk in his peripheral vision.

Big question: Is there anything redeeming about this obnoxious and horribly stereotypical story of square white society and their opposition to a round of "pimp my golf cart?"

Skip it: Rap isn't the irritant; you'd get dirty looks at a golf course for blasting Kenny G too. Rather, C-Note is just a dude with bad manners, who can't really care too much about honoring his dad's glory on the green if he's willing to sully everything the club and the game ever stood for.

Catch it: If you just came to see Big Boi get on the mic. He does rap—for about 10 seconds. Enjoy!

Bottom line: The movie tries to create racial issues where there are none, confusing respect and etiquette with bigotry and acting as if this is the first time black people and white people have ever met. "Who's Your Caddy?" isn't so much straight-to-DVD material as free-with-five-cereal-box-tops material.

Bonus: Ignore this review and buy a ticket if you're amused by references to Whitney Houston's motto, "Hell to the no," horses eating weed, farting used as a mid-swing distraction or old white men with British accents shouting, "South Siiide!" Just don't be surprised if you're alone in the theater.

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