The Waterboy Review
Director: Frank Coraci
Genre: Comedy/Sport
Codestar30 Rating: 7.5/10
When Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler), a 31 year old water-boy, is fired from his job as the water-boy for a successful american football team, he seeks employment at the lowly college team, "The Mud Dogs", who are on a 40 game losing streak. While going about his water dispensing duty's he is harassed by the players. Eventually Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) advises him to stand up for himself, resulting in Bobby performing a monumental tackle on a player being mean to him. The Coach immediately signs him up for the team, and slowly but surely Bobby begins to improve the fortunes of "The Mud Dogs".
This film is a pretty standard under-dog movie. A lowly water boy ascends to a famous american football player, and in doing so carries the worst team in the league to winning the series. However this film has my favorite protagonists of any under-dog movie I've seen. The lovable Bobby Boucher will both amuse you with his social ignorance and warm your heart with his well meaning nature, the mentally broken Coach Klein will have you giggling, and the whole cast will have you dizzy with laughter.
Its a great feel good movie. This story of triumph will make you feel all fuzzy inside and the antics, stupidity and ridiculousness of the characters will have you splitting your sides. Another great Adam Sandler movie.
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