Very well executed

That was an excellent one.

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Blistering performances.

The Waterboy1 And A Half Out Of 5The Waterboy is a plot driven sketchy feature that depicts a journey of a self-undermining boy to his destiny. There are few tricks and treats involved in the last act to hold the audience despite of being predictable as it was all established in its previous acts for it took all of its time to set the plot and characters with their specific characteristics that easily bored the viewers. It is short on technical aspects like background score, costume design, cinematography, editing, sound department and surprisingly humor too. The humor in here is cheap and ludicrous as the fatal attempts to draw a chuckle from the audience grows as it ages on screen and it ache to watch the writers sweat behind the camera in order to do so. The screenplay by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler is actually cheap shot even for a commercial cinema for if it attracts viewers that it always raises the question of its existence. Frank Coraci; the director needs a lot of work to do on his execution skills for he barely is able to pull off a sketchy comic sequence. The performance is mediocrely delivered by Adam Sandler and addition to that isn't supported to the essential extent by its supporting cast like Kathy Bates and Henry Winkler. The Waterboy is a vacuous match of no thrill or joy for it is based on a wafer thin concept which clearly isn't enough to feed the audience.

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.

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.

In the 1998 film, The Waterboy, Adam Sandler shows his talents as a southern-fried idiot, and it miraculously works for him. His best comedic performance since 1995 as Billy Madison, Sandler's charm and wit play well as a man in his 30s who still lives at home and does whatever his mother tells him, contrary to scientific fact.His mother, played here by Academy Award winner Kathy Bates is an outrageous southern woman who believes everything is the Devil and that her way is the right way. "Momma say alligators are angry cause they got all them teeth and no toothbrush." Cute, really, but at a certain age, one would question these theories. However, not Bobby Boucher! The cast also includes the great Jerry Reed (Smokey and the Bandit fame) and Henry Winkler as head-coaches of two opposing colleges. The flashback to their history is fall-down funny.Not the best film on the market, but definitely worth the watch if you need a few laughs.