All Teed Up (1930) User Reviews

He's a natural...and a nuisance!

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 12 July 2020]

When this short begins, Charley (Charley Chase) is eating at the lunch counter and meets a nice lady (Thelma Todd). When he learns that she's the daughter of the local golf club president, he tries to impress her with his knowledge and skill at golf. However, he has never actually golfed...which might pose a problem when she invites him out to the club.

Soon you see Charley arrive at the club and he ends up being quite the nuisance. His non-stop talking is made only worse than his amazing natural skills...and soon he ends up alienating himself from everyone. What's next? See the short.

While this is not among Charley's better shorts, it's still pretty good and watchable. It's also interesting in that the frequent Hal Roach supporting actor, Edgar Kennedy, directed this short...as well as made an uncredited appearance at the very end.

Made by masters

[hte-trasme · 8/10 · 26 May 2010]

I'm not a golf player and don't really have much of a familiarity with the game, but that's no handicap in enjoying this Charley Chase golf comedy since in it neither does his character. "All Teed Up" reminded me of a much later and better-known Chase short, "The Heckler," in which he's the world's most annoying baseball fan.

Here, of course, he's the world's most annoying golf player, and though the gags aren't as unified around a single trait and targeted as in the baseball short -- Charley finds a myriad of ways to infuriate his fellow player-- they are no less funny in a different way, with humor arising too from the random chance of new ways that Charley's presence causes chaos. He arrives at the club in the first place through a typical mistaken identity, then proceeds to do maddeningly well despite confessing never to have played golf, forgets the names of all his VIP new acquaintances, breaks everybody's concentration in about 17 different ways, and even ends up basically destroying the course.

It's a great example of how Charley could take a simple concept -- such as "annoying golfer" and spin it into a seemingly endless series of inspired gags. The film is bookended by two delightful scenes with Thelma Todd, who is lovely as always and has stellar chemistry with the star, as they turn a scene that is little more than the two of them flirting and which could have been nothing into gold. We also get a very pleasant performance of a song over the opening credits by the musically gifted Chase. Edgar Kennedy, who has a funny cameo at the end, closing the short on a funny but unexpected topical one-liner about the depression, directs and certainly brings his own honed sense of comic timing to endeavor.

Golfing short that just put-puts along.

[mark.waltz · 2/10 · 28 November 2019]

I had hoped that the presence of Thelma Todd in this 1930 Charlie Chase short would liven it up a bit, but it ends up being slow and annoying none the less. sitting in a diner, he arranges a golf date with her and she doesn't show up until later, causing him to annoy the other players on the course. This isn't funny in any way, and Chase's attempt to get laughs while being obnoxious and overly friendly just makes it annoying and tedious. golf games are slow enough to watch without adding comedy and making them seem even slower. Chase tries to liven it up while driving through the course with an egg truck does nothing but make his character more despicable.