The Waterboy Critic Reviews

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Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

Offers dumb fun without apology.Read the full review

ReelViews | James BerardinelliAdd Critic to Favorites

Arguably Sandler's most enjoyable motion picture to date, but it's still far from a masterpiece.Read the full review

Washington Post | Rita KempleyAdd Critic to Favorites

The Perrier of dumb-and-dumber movies, an effervescent idiot's delight that burbles from the wellspring of silliness inside star Adam Sandler's head.Read the full review

The New York Times | Elvis MitchellAdd Critic to Favorites

This escapist comedy is so cheerfully outlandish that it's hard to resist, and so good-hearted that it's genuinely endearing.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter StackAdd Critic to Favorites

An unabashed wallow in the moronic humor of Adam Sandler. Read the full review

Variety | Glenn LovellAdd Critic to Favorites

This yahoos-on-the-bayou farce is neither inventive nor outrageous enough.Read the full review

USA Today | Susan WloszczynaAdd Critic to Favorites

As funny as it can be, this underdawg comedy isn't much more than Sandler's golf-oriented "Happy Gilmore" with a Cajun accent. [6 November 1998, p. 10E] Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Joshua KleinAdd Critic to Favorites

A mess of bad timing, bad jokes, and bad ideas so lame that even Sandler's idiot man-child mugging can't enliven the proceedings. Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

Follows a leadenly predictable path that will be more than familiar to anyone who's seen a recent sports movie, or any Sandler movie.Read the full review

Washington Post | Michael O'SullivanAdd Critic to Favorites

Another film about . . . a cretinous, grating loser. Read the full review

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