Instant hero. just add water.
Hollywood's wildest funny man [sic], Adam Sandler, scores big laughs in a smash comedy hit where the laughs never run dry!
Just an oddball mama's boy who grew up on a farm [sic], Bobby Boucher (Adam) never wanted anything more than to quench the thirst of the dehydrated athletes who treat him like dirt! But when Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) makes the call that allows Bobby to finally stand up for himself, it unleashes a torrent of bottled-up frustration... and exposes a talent for defence that transforms him from a meek water distribution engineer to the hardest hitter ever to roam the athletic playing field!
Here's your chance to join the millions everywhere who've proudly stood and cheered for The waterboy!
Secret Agent Acid Thunder
Well... I wonder how he'd do in a serious rôle. Not! He's the B-grade Cheech Marin of the 90s. Or, if you're too young to remember Cheech, he's the Robin Williams for the 90s, although with Robin at least the films had a plot.
The waterboy was almost a good drama. Unfortunately, it was a comedy. It's Forrest Gump if Forrest was... well, Forrest was stupid and naïve... but if you took out the drama and the reality check (!) and set it all in his mama's back yard, then you'd have The waterboy.
Bobby rises uneducated from the Louisiana swamp; with the mama from hell he is never allowed the best luxuries of civilisation (I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing). After getting fired from his job a hidden talent emerges and he saves a rival team from *drum roll* continuing their 40-something losing streak (better than Necessary roughness or Major league). When the first team finds out, they stop Bobby from playing [Tonia Hardman eat your heart out - Director of Intelligence]. Of course, he overcomes his difficulties and saves the day in the final game of the season.
I would watch this sort of flick over a movie like Star wars: the phantom menace because if I was on a date or with friends and wanted to see a good anti-drama movie, The waterboy would be it. It's funny, romantic and has plenty of necessary violence.
Now, when my doctor said that taking out anger on inanimate objects was a good thing, was the object supposed to be inanimate before or after?
M (Low level coarse language)
86 minutes (1:26 hours)
14 February 2000
DVD retail: 7 July 2004