Repressed wimp on steroids comedy gold

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2019)

Perfect casting, everyone is completely right for their role. Adam Sandler does many similar kinds of roles and this is his repressed nerd character with powerful simmering rage at its essence. The scene where The Waterboy Bobby Boucher and is taught to release his rage and tackle a mocking football cohort is one of the most satisfying scenes in comedy. It truly is an uplifting and complete moment, and also very funny. The scenes that stand out for me in Adam Sandler films are similar in that they have both humor and a wholesome, cathartic quality, and this scene is one of the very best.
There's a number of people who could be on steroids in this film (not actually, but in their characters and actions) and then others who play the oddball wimps, and then you get Sandler's Bobby Boucher who is a bit of both. The characters are amped up and as they should be for a comedy, and especially the actress who plays Bobby's mother and the Unisinkable Molly Brown in Titanic, she is satisfying.
Just a perfect and well made classic comedy that everyone who has ever felt like an underdog should watch.