Wednesday 16 December 2009

So I saw 'The Waterboy'

On local station RCTI. Bobby Boucher Jr. (Adam Sandler) is a 31 year-old good-meaning dumb-ass water boy for a loser backwater college football team still living with his mom, 'Mama' Boucher (Kathy Bates as a Pippi Longstocking gone hillbilly), who, after having opened "a can of whoop-ass" on one of the team's football players during training, is promoted to join the team by Coach Klein (Henry Winkler), who has discovered a way to harness Bobby's talent for carnage. To funny results, I must say.

Sandler has three built-in slider controls labelled "idiocy", "rudeness", and "sappiness" which he twiddles with to channel himself in all of his films. In The Waterboy (1998) the three are kept in check.

(Running time: 90 minutes)

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