Ok, it's no "Ben Hur", but its funny!

Rating: 8/10 (2 August 1999)

Waterboy lacks two things that are essential to most movies, plot and character development. The plot is the typical rags to riches rise of a small town football team thanks to a freak player. Disney usually makes these with an animal or girl as the unusual player, but in this case it's Adam Sandler. The character development is almost non-existent, with most of the "key" characters doing little more than keeping the "plot" moving along, and contributing to the funny scenes. Despite all this, it somehow manages to be laugh-out-loud funny for most of the movie. Once the slapstick element is introduced (and you've all seen the trailers, he gets mad, he tackles people) it is mercilessly applied over and over. The constant re-application of the humor somehow survives the rest of the movie, and through a few typical and unsurprising twists, we arrive at the end wanting to see it again.