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A feel-good comedy featuring Sandler at his funniest
While The Wedding Singer will probably always be my favorite Adam Sandler movie, The Waterboy is by far his funniest, and I think I actually enjoy this film more each time I watch it. It is the perfect answer for a bad day, as not only is it hilarious and uplifting, it lets you take out some of your own pent-up aggression with each powerful hit Bobby Boucher (Sandler) makes out on the football field. Bobby represents everyone who has ever been excluded, picked on, or ridiculed. While he is not an intellectual giant and does not possess what you call people skills, his kind and simple nature makes him a man among men even before he finds stardom on the gridiron. The boy certainly loves his mama, and Kathy Bates shines in her role as the overprotective, quirky, slightly touched in the head Helen Boucher. If anyone ever questioned Bates' ability to do comedy, this movie should banish all doubts. Fairuza Balk is strangely beguiling as Vicki Vallencourt, a "bad girl" who has long had an interest in Bobby over his mother's objections, and the two make a really strange yet somehow logical couple. Bobby's mother describes Vicki as "the devil," but of course she considers just about every person on the planet besides herself and Bobby to be "the devil."

Bobby's real passion in life is his job as waterboy for the local college football team, a real powerhouse coached by Coach Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed). When he gets fired, he goes seeking water management employment at South Central Louisiana State University, a legendarily bad team coached by Coach Klein, a very un-Fonzie-like Henry Winkler. When Coach Klein convinces Bobby to defend himself against the taunts of team members, he finds himself looking at a natural-born linebacker. Mama does not want her son playing "foosball," but what Mama does not know won't hurt her (Bobby ingeniously blames all of the cuts and scrapes he acquires during the season on an escaped gorilla). He records a record-shattering sixteen quarterback sacks in his first game, drawing national attention from the real-life sportscasters of ESPN. A magical season unfolds at SCLSU, setting up a Bourbon Bowl meeting of the little college who could and mean old Coach Beaulieu's undefeated championship squad. At this point, certain complications arise, a secret history between Coaches Beaulieu and Klein is revealed, and SCLSU's dream season stands on the point of suddenly becoming a nightmare.

This is not a high-brow comedy, but there is nothing wrong with corny comedy as long as it is funny, and The Waterboy is, to repeat myself, hilarious. Football fans will definitely get a kick out of the way Bobby just destroys his opponents on the field, using several moves that you will not see in the NFL any time soon in the process (certainly not more than once). Perhaps overlooked in the midst of all the comedy is a more serious theme, however. This movie is a story of overcoming obstacles, believing in yourself, and redemption, not just for the ultimate underdog Bobby Boucher but for his mother, Coach Klein, and several other characters. You almost have to feel pumped up and happy in the end, and that counts for a lot in and of itself. Sometimes the good guys do come out on top, or so most of us like to believe in order to get through each day. The Waterboy helps us keep our faith and inspires us to rise above all of the bad things in life and concentrate on such simple yet important matters as family, friendship, love, and always doing your best.

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Half and Half
"The Waterboy" stars Adam Sandler as Bobby Boucher, the twenty-something waterboy for the local college football team in his home state of Louisiana. Bobby is constantly harrassed by the team's players and its coach, Red Beaulieu (Jerry Reed). One day Bobby is tormented by one of the players and is fired by Coach Beaulieu for disrupting his team.

Bobby then finds employment as the waterboy for another college football team in the area. This team is coached by the mild mannered Coach Kline (Henry Winkler) who challenges Bobby to stand up for himself when the players on his team start to poke fun at him. Bobby snaps when the team's quarterback says something that brings up all the bad feelings he's ever had and Bobby proceeds to deck him with a vicious tackle. Thus starts Bobby Boucher's college football career.

To say that "The Waterboy" is an idiot comedy is like saying the Grand Canyon is a hole in the ground. This is idiot comedy taken to the extreme. About half of the movie works, like when Bobby drop kicks an opposing player for having said something about his momma. The other half, like the mumbling of Farmer Fran (Blake Clark), is just stupid.

Sandler's accent in this movie is not cajun or even southern, it's a cross between a five year old and someone with a severe stutter. It gets a little annoying after a while but certainly fits the role better than Sandler's own voice.

I almost gave this movie two stars for making me watch Kathy Bates in a horribly casted role as Bobby's scheming mother. She doesn't want him playing "no foosball" or messing with girls (they's the devil). Bobby of course does both by joining the college football team and hooking up with Vicki Vallencourt, played by Fairuza Balk.

I wouldn't recommend "The Waterboy" as the Adam Sandler movie to see if you are only going to see one of them. The one I recommend is "Happy Gilmore". Sadly though, this is Sandler's second best movie to date. That he manages to pull down $20 million per film is a testament to just how far our culture has fallen. Jerry Lewis's films used to be a nice diversion from the great blockbuster films like "Gone with the Wind" and "The Maltese Falcon". Now, in the person of Adam Sandler, Jerry Lewis is the blockbuster. Perhaps we have more in common with the French than we know.

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This is one of Adam Sandler's best movies.
The Waterboy is a movie that doesn't require a lot of brain power to figure out, but it's loaded with comedy and hilarious lines from Adam Sandler. One particular part of the movie that I love is when he is in a college class dealing with the agression center of animals and Bobby is asked why alligators are such aggressive creatures. Since his Mama was supposedly right about everything, his answer was "Mama says that alligators are angry 'cause they got all those teeth and no toothbrush." That's comedy, man! Simple comedy, maybe, but it's funny all the same! This is definitely a must-have for any Adam Sandler fan. If you don't like Adam Sandler, then you're not going to like this movie. End of story.