The Waterboy

  • 1999


MOVIE IS predictable uninspired refreshing provoking
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56 %
35 % Rotten
$ 185 Million
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Positive Reviews 18
Negative reviews 22
Average Rating 2.4/5
predictable uninspired refreshing provoking

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3.0
Had Adam Sandler not made such an impressive artistic leap so recently with The Wedding Singer, The Waterboy wouldnt seem quite so dehydrated. EW
1.3
A character whose manner and voice has the effect of fingernails on a blackboard! Rogerebert
1.5
The direction is as blunt and vacant as the plotting, the jokes are obvious and the performances (with a couple of exceptions) charmless. Time Out
1.0
Related Item The Waterboy showtimes The Waterboy By Michael OSullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, November 6, 1998 Adam Sandler plays a footb ..
3.5
Another half a year, another Adam Sandler film.Director Coraci, who reined in the manic comic in their last outing, The Wedding Singer, takes the oppo ..
2.0
Sandler, who really is close to comedy genius when hes being original, is just plain awful. E Film Critic
4.0
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. E Film Critic
2.5
By calling up certain inner visions, Bobby taps into an awesome talent for tackling people. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Perfectly watchable, undemanding fun, but you cant help thinking that a slightly darker tone would have gone a very long way.
2.0
Uninspired, one joke film gathers very little in momentum, is forgiven for its obviously standard plot, but not for its lack of constant humor or orig .. JoBlo
3.1
The gallows humor is pervasive, giving the production, which sometimes crosses over a line into outright parody, a quirky tone. ReelViews
2.0
Its a piece of comic fluff that has lots of laughs and appeals to the kid in us all.
3.1
July 11/10) (July 11/10) A surprisingly plausible mockumentary, Live! Reel Film Reviews
3.0
Laramie Movie Scope: The Waterboy Meet the new Jerry Lewis by Robert Roten, Film Critic November 22, 1998 Adam Sandler (The Wedding Singer) stars as B .. Lariat
3.0
In his last release, The Wedding Singer, the normally sophomoric Sandler surprised everyone by showing his softer, more refined, and gentler side of c .. Screen It
3.0
With The Waterboy, comedian Adam Sandler once again joins forces with friend and Wedding Singer director Frank Coraci for this tale of another Sandler .. Film Journal International ..
1.9
Adam Sandler is like a small child: Without proper supervision, he can become a danger to himself and other people. Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.5
art it aint, but The Waterboy is pure, undiluted Sandler, in the kind of role only he could pull off. The movie also owes much of its success to divin .. Internet Reviews
1.5
Theres something funny and endearing about Adam Sandler, even if his moronic movies are simply variations on each other and he always plays the nerdy, .. Internet Reviews
1.9
The script by Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler has all of the depth and originality of a failed pilot for a television sitcom. Internet Reviews
2.5
Sandler and his frat house friends have done the infant in an adult body shtick to death! Internet Reviews
1.3
Destroyer If there is one thing we remember from Karyn Kusamas thriller Destroyer, it is that Nicole Kidmans character, a Los Angeles homicide detecti .. Q Network
2.0
WATERBOY SYNOPSIS: Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), a socially inept 31 year old from the swamps of Louisiana, home educated and fiercely sheltered by hi ..
2.5
A sequel to I Know.. no more nor less than an effective formula genre piece was just about doomed from its inception. Mr Brown Movies
2.5
One of the surprises about, The Waterboy, is that it isnt very funny. The Movie Boy
3.1
Theres an innocence to The Waterboy that makes the picture part slapstick and part fairy tale..The only problem with letting kids see this Adam Sandle .. Groucho Reviews
1.9
Review: Sandler shouldve punted Waterboy Web posted on: Friday, November 13, 1998 1:47:20 PM From CNN Interactive Sr. Producer Dave Rickett I RATE IT: .. Cnn
1.9
Its an extremely low brow, nonsense script, the very best elements of which are unlikely to amuse even the most dimwitted of Beavis and Butthead types .. Spliced Wire
3.1
In spite of Roger Eberts extremely negative review, The Waterboy was the sold outest show of the day when we went. Movie Habit
1.5
Though unabashedly goofy, this comedy also boasts some subtly ingenious moments of mirth. Boxoffice Magazine
1.5
For anyone expecting the comedy to rise beyond the moronic, The Waterboy is all wet! E Online
1.0
A few moral lessons do emerge, but theyre shamelessly covered in tepid jokes or mildly raunchy innuendo.
3.8
Ive said it before and Ill say it again, critics dont seem to get comedy. Montreal Film Journal
3.5
THE WATERBOY In The Waterboy, Sandler has reassembled the successful team from last years The Wedding Singer: co writer Tim Herlihy and director Frank .. Film Quips Online
0.5
Hands up anyone who shelled out cash at the cinema to see this pathetic sporting comedy...What were you thinking of Film4
2.5
A predictable, formulaic, dumb comedy that has about as much depth as Bobby . . . unless you think of it in Forrest Gump terms, and then it begins to .. Movie Metropolis
2.0
God knows, it tries, but most of the jokes fall flat, and the movie never gets off the ground. Film Blather
3.5
Its surprisingly refreshing to watch Sandler make a fool out of himself. Filmcritic.com
3.1
Sandler has proven himself a worthy alchemist with The Waterboy, transforming swamp water to Evian. Quite a refreshing if moronic romp. Sandler rocks! Nitrate Online
3.5
The Waterboy Review written by: Alex Sandell Adam Sandler as The Waterboy. Juicy Cerebellum
1.3
They honestly believe that big stars like Adam Sandler can carry out these jokes and comedy routines to the point of provoking the needed humor, unlik .. Cinema Phile
2.0
Not only can one see the films twists coming a mile away, the jokes along the way are extraordinarily flat as well. Net Flix
2.5
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South football The Waterboy is delightful. Globe and Mail
4.5
If Sandler is truly determined to soften his image, his persona in here is an acceptable compromise. Boston Phoenix
3.1
There are no epic moments that will go down in comedy history here. But theres enough funny stuff to keep you amused throughout the movie. Cine Matter
2.0
Review A witless and utterly predictable comic fantasy about a misfit turned hero think of it as Forrest Gump Lite, if such a thing were possible The .. Bfi



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