The Waterboy is a much sharper satire of Saturday mornings in the South than you’d expect.

| Oct 26, 2024

This juvenile, unnecessary, and utterly pathetic madness can barely be considered a comedy; the jokes are so immature and flat that it more closely resembles a tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Sep 25, 2020

A witless and utterly predictable comic fantasy about a misfit turned hero.

| Jun 18, 2012

Really dumb, but many teens love it anyway.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 29, 2010

An agreeable yet forgettable comedy...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 10, 2010

There's an innocence to The Waterboy that makes the picture part slapstick and part fairy tale...The only problem with letting kids see this Adam Sandler movie? They might want to see another one. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 12, 2009

A predictable, formulaic, dumb comedy that has about as much depth as Bobby . . . unless you think of it in Forrest Gump terms, and then it begins to get a little less offensive and a little funnier.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 24, 2009

Though unabashedly goofy, this comedy also boasts some subtly ingenious moments of mirth.

| Oct 18, 2008

The formulaic mix of mirth and mayhem is aimed way down the M온라인카지노추천 food chain...

Full Review | Jun 2, 2008

Perfectly watchable, undemanding fun, but you can't help thinking that a slightly darker tone would have gone a very long way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 2, 2008

Hands up anyone who shelled-out cash at the cinema to see this pathetic sporting comedy...What were you thinking of?

| Jun 2, 2008

Scrappy and funny and achieves its modest aim, which is to make us laugh like grade-schoolers. The doofus boy triumphs again.

| Original Score: B | Jul 23, 2007

The direction is as blunt and vacant as the plotting, the jokes are obvious and the performances (with a couple of exceptions) charmless.

| Jan 26, 2006

No stretching involved, but he delivers. It's a safe date film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 6, 2005

The film is amiably goofy.

Full Review | Jul 21, 2005

It's a piece of comic fluff that has lots of laughs and appeals to the kid in us all.

| Original Score: B | Apr 9, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2005

The Waterboy is a disappointment, even by standards associated with Adam Sandler's work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 28, 2005

Adam Sandler movies are like kumquats -- you either like them or you don't.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2005

God knows, it tries, but most of the jokes fall flat, and the movie never gets off the ground.

| Original Score: D | May 22, 2003