Waterboy's water is foul

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 1998)

I did not like this movie at all and I am a HUGE Adam Sandler fan. I loved him on SNL, I loved him in the "Wedding Singer" and "Bulletproof"... but this movie was simply god-awful. Simply tackling people while yelling like a moron is not funny. Bad cajun accents are not funny.
As for the performances, Sandler knew he was in a turkey and seemed to be sleep-walking through his role without much enthusiasm... Henry Winkler as an insane football coach was just glad to be working and seemed to be putting a lot of enthusiasm into his dumb role, but it was still dumb. Kathy Bates though is Oscar-caliber talent and for the life of me I do not know how she got mixed up in this pic. She was fairly entertaining as Sandler's domineering cajun mother living in the swamps and cooking 'gators and snakes.
The plot just got more and more pointless and the jokes more and more dumb and by the end of it I just felt sorry for everyone involved. I understand the movie is making money, but I hope that Sandler will look for much better writing and directing in his next movie.