Caddyshack II and Magic supplied the visual effects for these scenes. Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the original "Caddyshack" with Brian Doyle-Murray and Douglas Kenney, described "Caddyshack II", which he co-wrote with Peter Torokvei, as "terrible." In an interview with The A.V. Club in 1999, Ramis said that, Ramis was later quoted as saying that Dangerfield was the only one who expressed any interest in doing a sequel in the first place. Ted Knight had died two years earlier, Bill Murray was not interested in reprising his role as Carl the greens keeper, and he said Chevy Chase had "already moved on", although
Caddyshack has said that it is his favorite film, so much so that he played Spackler in an American Express commercial based on the film. Many of the film's quotes have entered the lexicon of pop culture. Ramis noted in the DVD documentary that "TV Guide" had originally given the film two stars (out of four) when it began showing on cable television in the early 1980s, but over time the rating had gone up to three stars. He himself said he could "barely watch it. All I see are a bunch of compromises and things that could have been better",