The Waterboy [Blu-ray] by Touchstone Home Entertainment

Actors

• Adam Sandler
• Kathy Bates
• Henry Winkler
• Fairuza Balk
• Jerry Reed

Format

• Color
• Dolby
• DTS Surround Sound
• Subtitled
• Widescreen

Editorial Review

Adam Sandler vaulted into the $20-million-salary stratosphere with this, his second $100-million hit in 1998–a movie that further shows just how deeply embedded he is in the Jerry Lewis tradition of idiot comedy. He plays Bobby Boucher, a backwoods Cajun and a mentally challenged individual with a fixation on water: specifically, on serving the coolest, most refreshing H2O available to the college football team he has served since he was an adolescent. But when he's fired from his position, he takes up a similar job with a lowlier college team coached by neurotic Henry Winkler. One day at practice, Bobby loses his temper and delivers a bone-shaking tackle to the starting quarterback; before he can say, “blackened crawdads,” he's the star of the team and leading it to a bowl game. But it's all against the wishes of his overprotective mother (Kathy Bates), who wants to keep her Bobby to herself–and that includes keeping him away from the floozy girlfriend (Fairuza Balk) who's sweet on him. There are two kinds of people in this world: People who find Sandler funny and people who view him as a neon-lit symbol of the decline of popular taste. You know who you are and, based on that, you can decide whether this is a movie for you. –Marshall Fine