The Waterboy (1998)

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

I'm not a sporty guy, so this is the first sports film I've seen in a long time, and it was surprisingly okay. It had its quirky 90's humor that gave me a good chuckle, and the football competition of the movie was generally entertaining, but it more focused on character development, which was entertaining to watch.

That is all that this movie was. No more, no less. I don't really think that there is anything else to it that it needed to be. This movie had some great jokes, such as whoopass. However, there are a lot of stupid moments in the whole movie, such as the mother thing. Like it was needed for the plot, but it was way too forced in my opinion and I feel like they needed to calm down the whole thing. Although this did have one of the few funny Rob Schinder movies with the whole crazy farm boy roll. I really liked that roll, but I still think that there needed to be more of a plot to it to make it as long as it actually was.

The Waterboy is a comedic movie starring Adam Sandler as a Louisianan homeschooled man who goes to college to play football. This legend is known as Bobby Boucher. This masterpiece was directed by Frank Coraci who absolutely nailed the essence of the underdog story. Adam Sandler has completely mastered the over the top goofball role in this movie and others such as Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore. The plot of the story was excellent especially the part where he tried to hide the fact that he played "Foosball" from his overprotective mother played by Kathy Bates Bobby started off working as a waterboy for the South-Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs when one of the players made him mad. He proceeded to make an absolutely brilliant tackle on the quarterback who enraged him proving that he was an excellent pass rusher when he had the right motivation. He then enrolled in school to make him eligible for the football team. He drove his tractor to the school every day to go to attend classes and to practice. Each day his mom thought that he was just going to be the team's waterboy, little did she know he was becoming a sensation in the college football community. Bobby used inspiration from everyone who every wronged him to fuel him. Later in the film, his mother finds out about his football career and shuts it down immediately. Bobby and his coach, Coach Klein, spend a night trying to convince her to let him play for the Mud Dogs in the final game of the season against their rival. The two-story plot in the movie is excellent. The way he tries to hide football from his mother while balancing school and the fame he gets from his exceptional football play.

The Waterboy is one of Adam Sandler's more well known and successful comedy films of the 90's (It was his biggest films up until 2010). This film is mainly directed to his teenage fanbase and in this case, there are several issues and just moronic errors about it. We all understand this film is a comedy but it is far too unrealistic and comes off as just irritating and annoying. Comparing the Waterboy to Happy Gilmore (a much better film) we see him beat up Bob Barker. In The Waterboy, he plays a lisp-speaking, clumsy, little mama's boy whose life has no direction, no purpose, and, apparently, no human intelligence. After he is hired to be the water boy for a crumbling Louisiana football team, a few of the 'star' players enjoy insulting him every chance they get. When he's at the point where he just can't take it anymore, he exclaims 'stop making fun of me,' and head-butts them, sort of like a tackle. What is unrealistic about this is that all it takes for Bobby to make the team and be their star player is one tackle. There are a few chuckles in the movie but after a while we tend to realize how silly overall the film is.Just like it every Sandler comedy, the end product is quite predictable. We ends up succeeding while being the underdog and ends with the love interest. Sandler himself can be funny, but tackling football players because they make fun of him is no amusing. It gets old fast. His mama was funny at first but they kept the gag overdoing itself where he stopped being anything. The Waterboy has not aged well over the years either.