Perfectly watchable, undemanding fun, but you can't help thinking that a slightly darker tone would have gone a very long way.
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06/02/08
The Waterboy (1998)
30 %
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Reviews Counted: 69
Fresh: 21
Rotten:48
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Consensus: This is an insult to its genre with low humor and cheap gags.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Adam Sandler is charming and disarming as he dusts off and mashes together his beloved SNL charcters Cajun Man and Canteen Boy to create Bobby Boucher, the sweet-tempered, simple-minded, bayou man-child who relishes his job of eighteen... [More]
Starring: Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Henry Winkler, Fairuza Balk
Director: Frank Coraci
Reviews for The Waterboy
Top Critic Hands up anyone who shelled-out cash at the cinema to see this pathetic sporting comedy...What were you thinking of?
06/02/08
Top Critic The direction is as blunt and vacant as the plotting, the jokes are obvious and the performances (with a couple of exceptions) charmless.
01/26/06
Top Critic Even if Sandler wasn't so irritating, it would be hard to feel sorry for him.
01/01/00
The formulaic mix of mirth and mayhem is aimed way down the MTV food chain...
06/02/08
Top Critic
The Waterboy is scrappy and funny and achieves its modest aim, which is to make us laugh like grade-schoolers. The doofus boy triumphs again.
07/23/07
It's a piece of comic fluff that has lots of laughs and appeals to the kid in us all.
04/09/05
The Waterboy is a disappointment, even by standards associated with Adam Sandler's work.
02/28/05
Adam Sandler movies are like kumquats -- you either like them or you don't.
01/29/05
God knows, it tries, but most of the jokes fall flat, and the movie never gets off the ground.
05/22/03
The Waterboy should have been sacked long before it reached the theater.
05/20/03
Sandler proved last year that he can be believable as a real person, but if he insists on playing overblown caricatures, he may not get many more chances.
02/08/03
Not only can one see the film's "twists" coming a mile away, the jokes along the way are extraordinarily flat as well.
11/07/02
It ain't really thought provoking, but you can't deny it's terrific entertainment.
09/10/02
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is delightful.
07/12/02
Kathy Bates prova ter a tendência de se transformar numa espécie de Michael Caine de saias: um artista de grande talento que se envolve em produções abaixo de seus padrões.
05/31/02
Latest News for The Waterboy
September 03, 2008:
Jerry Reed: 1937-2008 
Jerry Reed, the musician and actor who appeared in such films as "Smokey and the Bandit" and "The Waterboy," has passed away due to complications from emphysema. He was 71. More...
June 25, 2006:
Box Office Wrapup: Sandler Fast Forwards to #1
Moviegoers grabbed their remote controls and flocked to the multiplexes this weekend to see Adam Sandler's latest comedy Click which became the comedian's eighth number one hit... More...
June 22, 2006:
Box Office Preview: Sandler "Clicks" With New Comedy
Although Father's Day has passed, Hollywood brings out two very different stories about dads and their wacky adventures this weekend with Adam Sandler's comedy Click and Tyrese... More...
December 23, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: Click
Thanks to all sorts of annoying glitches and browser-bumbling, I cannot personally guarantee that you'll find the all-new trailer for Adam Sandler's "Click" over at... More...
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