Sophisticated cult humour with a sprinkle of contemporary satire

Rating: Null/10 (5 May 1999)

I've had the immense pleasure of watching a sneak preview of Adam Sandler's The Waterboy. From the first glimpse of his posture on the white screen the audience was captured by his impressive character and his wonderful acting. His portraying of a thirty-one year old aqua-dispensing person, carrying the burden of a lifetime of misunderstanding, bullying and constant harassments is very captivating and more than once a silent tear dropped down from my eye. His mother, a rough woman, close to nature and keeping her son away from the Real World, kept reminding me of the movie Boxing Helena; Waterboy Sandler and his mother (played by Kathy Bates) truly have their first Oscar-winning performance here. Not only do they appeal to the audience by their vivid acting and obvious involvement in their parts, they also carry the characters to such heights as has never been done before in a genre like this. I even dare say Shakespeare is eating his heart out.
Please go and see The Waterboy; you will be able to tell your children in fifty years You Were There when The Waterboy came out, and you will say it with pride. Thank you, Sandler, for taking your audience serious and showing us the hard life of the underpriviliged in our society.