Directed by:
Frank CoraciCinematography:
Steven BernsteinComposer:
Alan PasquaCast:
Adam Sandler, Kathy Bates, Fairuza Balk, Henry Winkler, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Jonathan Loughran, Clint Howard, Allen Covert, Rob Schneider, Todd Holland (more)Plots(1)
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! (official distributor synopsis)
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Well, Sandler went way overboard on this one. An actor like him has no need to play retarded idiots whose job is to fetch water for another bunch of morons in the form of the local football team. The story is predictable from start to finish, desperately cheesy and unfunny on top. The 2 stars are mostly out of sympathy.
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I just don't like Adam Sandler, and he has practically the same expression in Waterboy as in Billy Madison, so it's actually quite cliché, which could be said of everything else. The only bright spot was, as always, the great Kathy Bates, who just knows how to do it and it's a real shame she was involved in something so silly. In short, a film that is incredibly predictable and which I stumbled across purely out of boredom.
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This is not Sandler's best film. I don't like how they're being too ridiculous here. He's good at it, but somehow it just doesn't fit with his usual films, at least not to this extent. I prefer him normal, with a little goofing off now and then. Otherwise, the film is occasionally amusing, although not so much from Sandler's side. It's primarily straightforward and simple.
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