The Waterboy: Critic Reviews

Formulaic!

The film is amiably goofy.

Long on crude, cheap humor and short on, well, anything else.

It's definitely for the fans!

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

As a satire on the only true religion of the American South -- football -- The Waterboy is delightful.

Sandler makes the laughs go down easy, even if The Waterboy isn't exactly quality H2O.

Really dumb, but many teens love it anyway.

An agreeable yet forgettable comedy...

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]

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Waterboy should have been sacked long before it reached the theater.

Sandler proved last year that he can be believable as a real person, but if he insists on playing overblown caricatures, he may not get many more chances.

Not only can one see the film's "twists" coming a mile away, the jokes along the way are extraordinarily flat as well.

It ain't really thought provoking, but you can't deny it's terrific entertainment.

We've got somewhat entertaining trash here.