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This is an insult to its genre with low humor and cheap gags.
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The formulaic mix of mirth and mayhem is aimed way down the MTV food chain... Jun 2, 2008
The formulaic mix of mirth and mayhem is aimed way down the MTV food chain...
Glenn Lovell
The direction is as blunt and vacant as the plotting, the jokes are obvious and the performances (with a couple of exceptions) charmless. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
The direction is as blunt and vacant as the plotting, the jokes are obvious and the performances (with a couple of exceptions) charmless.
The film is amiably goofy. Jul 21, 2005
The film is amiably goofy.
Jeff Millar
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is delightful. Jul 12, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is delightful.
John Haslett Cuff
We've got somewhat entertaining trash here. Jun 18, 2002 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
We've got somewhat entertaining trash here.
Peter Stack
Sandler makes the laughs go down easy, even if The Waterboy isn't exactly quality H2O. May 11, 2001
Sandler makes the laughs go down easy, even if The Waterboy isn't exactly quality H2O.
Peter Travers
A witless and utterly predictable comic fantasy about a misfit turned hero. Jun 18, 2012
A witless and utterly predictable comic fantasy about a misfit turned hero.
Andrew O'Hehir
Really dumb, but many teens love it anyway. Dec 29, 2010 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Really dumb, but many teens love it anyway.
Nell Minow
An agreeable yet forgettable comedy... Jul 10, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
An agreeable yet forgettable comedy...
David Nusair
There's an innocence to The Waterboy that makes the picture part slapstick and part fairy tale...The only problem with letting kids see this Adam Sandler movie? They might want to see another one. [Blu-ray] Aug 12, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
There's an innocence to The Waterboy that makes the picture part slapstick and part fairy tale...The only problem with letting kids see this Adam Sandler movie? They might want to see another one. [Blu-ray]
Peter Canavese
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 get a little less offensive and a little funnier. Jul 24, 2009 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
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 get a little less offensive and a little funnier.
James Plath
Though unabashedly goofy, this comedy also boasts some subtly ingenious moments of mirth. Oct 18, 2008 | Full Review…
Though unabashedly goofy, this comedy also boasts some subtly ingenious moments of mirth.
Christine James
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