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Waterboy, The
Buena Vista Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some crude sexual humor
Starring
Adam Sandler,
Kathy Bates,
Fairuza Balk,
Henry Winkler,
Jerry Reed,
Larry Gilliard Jr.,
Blake Clark,
and
Peter Dante
Just an oddball mama's boy from the back bayous of Louisiana, Bobby Boucher (Sandler) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration ... and exposes a talent for tackling that transforms him from a meek "water distribution engineer" into the hardest hitter ever to roam the gridiron! (Buena Vista Entertainment)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Tim Herlihy
Adam Sandler
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Frank Coraci
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 3, 2003
Video: October 8, 2002
Theatrical: November 6, 1998
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Arguably Sandler's most enjoyable motion picture to date, but it's still far from a masterpiece.

63
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Offers dumb fun without apology.

60
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
The Perrier of dumb-and-dumber movies, an effervescent idiot's delight that burbles from the wellspring of silliness inside star Adam Sandler's head.

60
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
This escapist comedy is so cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good-hearted that it's genuinely endearing.

60
TV Guide
Ken Fox
No one does deranged quite like Kathy Bates (the film's running gag involving Bates and the delicacies of Cajun cuisine is hilarious).

50
Variety
Glenn Lovell
This yahoos-on-the-bayou farce is neither inventive nor outrageous enough.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's not "Billy Madison," quite, but The Waterboy is still pure Sandler. If you like that sort of thing.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
A deluge of funny, inane jokes.

50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
John Haslett Cuff
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is a delight.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Stack
An unabashed wallow in the moronic humor of Adam Sandler.

50
USA Today
Susan Wloszczyna
As funny as it can be, this underdawg comedy isn't much more than Sandler's golf-oriented "Happy Gilmore" with a Cajun accent. [6 November 1998, p. 10E]
40
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Another film about . . . a cretinous, grating loser.

40
Empire
Caroline Westbrook
Perfectly watchable, undemanding fun, but you can't help thinking that a slightly darker tone would have gone a very long way.

40
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
Geek-triumphs-after-all comedies can be charming, but in this one the triumphing begins so early it's hard to feel for the geek.

40
LA Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Of course it's dumb, but every 10 minutes or so, it's also pretty funny.

40
Los Angeles Times
John Anderson
Follows a leadenly predictable path that will be more than familiar to anyone who's seen a recent sports movie, or any Sandler movie.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Joshua Klein
A mess of bad timing, bad jokes, and bad ideas so lame that even Sandler's idiot man-child mugging can't enliven the proceedings.

25
New York Daily News
David Kehr
Working a lisping Southern accent that sounds like Truman Capote on Seconal, Sandler plays Bobby Boucher, a swamp-dwelling Cajun. [6 November 1998, p. 56]
25
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Sandler is making a tactical error when he creates a character whose manner and voice has the effect of fingernails on a blackboard, and then expects us to hang in there for a whole movie.

20
Film Threat
Ron Wells
A stupid summer movie.

16
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Becomes yet another lame sports farce.


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