Wonderful character development!

Fresh and Exciting

As Good As It Gets

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

Bobby Boucher is 31, lives at home with his mother and is the waterboy for the University of Louisiana Cougars. One day he is fired and ends up being the waterboy for a down-and-out college team, the South Central Louisiana State University Mud Dogs. During an incident in training, Bobby demonstrates himself to be a ferocious tackler, and he is picked for the team's defense. Thanks to him, the Mud Dogs' fortunes soar. However, his mother doesn't approve of him playing football...Silly but entertaining. Started quite weakly, largely using Bobby's disabilities to score cheap laughs. The whole Louisiana inbred/hick thing was laid on pretty thick and got quite tiresome, quite quickly. However, as the movie progresses it gains momentum, shakes off the cheap laughs and becomes reasonably entertaining.Not that it doesn't still have its silly moments towards the end, but these become few and further between.Overall: not a must-see, but if you're looking for something mindlessly entertaining, this isn't so bad.

I give credit for Adam Sandler for being in this film. I also give Rob Schneider credit but this movie is just so unfunny it just disappoints me when I see the box on my shelf and realize I'm not getting my money back. This movie is very poorly written with having the lead girl act trampy. I mean she awkwardly reminds me of my cousin and it just isn't a good thing. I don't really root for her to get the main guy because hey she just isn't all that attractive when she tries acting like it. I'm also turned off by this movie when the only thing I think would of been funnier and more realistic is having Adam Sandler's mother/ Kathy Bates murder everybody on the other team. The ending really is a disappointing climax and it just really is poorly done. You don't get satisfied in the end. It's a 3 out of 10 for Big Show's cameo, Kathy Bates' 2nd psycho performance, and having Rob Schneider play the character that Adam Sandler seemed to play in The Animal.

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.

It's obvious many people think too much of their film critic credentials, and they miss the overall point of "The Waterboy": There isn't a shred of "serious" to the story, simply a spoof of all things related to big time college football, the deep South and over-bearing mothers. To see it as anything else is to lose grasp on the human comedy. Much like folks misunderstanding the camp nature of "Starship Troopers," "The Waterboy" is a classic in its own right, with a flip of the finger to anyone who doesn't comprehend the intentions of the production. In fact, if they don't understand, they should take mama's place in the hospital bed!