An absolute piece of trash

Rating: 1/10 (11 November 1998)

This has to be one of the worst films I have ever seen in my entire life. After the success of The Wedding Singer, I thought there may have been some promise left in Adam Sandler's career. I was wrong. The Waterboy is the strictly by the numbers as far as Sandler films go: cheesy, predictable, and completely witless. And Sandler is once again cast in the only role he can play: as the idiot savant who likes to smash things. Kathy Bates slums unforgivably here. But the most embarrassing pitfall is witnessing Henry Winkler, once the pinnacle of teen angst as the Fonz, reduced here to whimpering and childish antics. Almost completely unwatchable.